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The 
falling out the 
 back-of-the-car
and scattered as
deritis along
the railings of the
highway

And then being run over by a truck
 on it's midnight run. Truck driver says
"gosh, what was that." Doesn't even know.
Never finds out. It's a non-event to him.

  That is what happens, allegorically, to old
technology. It get's run over by the mighty
working truck of technology: what really works
in the world. 

  In the early days of photoing I would
lug around a giant laptop computer. The 
batteries of this thing were no good anymore
so it needed a plug after the five years of
use. At some point I put in a 100 gig harddrive
to load music with. I transfered all of my
archived garage tape music, and about 10 gig
of archive dot org mp3's and ogg's (of The
Grateful Dead) onto this thing. Then I set it
on a shelve and never turned it back on again.
I don't even know if I have the Linux passwords
for that machine. That is what happens to 
old technology. It get's shelved.
 After a time I went out and bought a shiney 
giant new laptop, even bigger than the other
one. And I paid the extra coin for the double
100 gig drives so I could reformat one for use 
with Linux. Oh, the day of a bootdrive from a
flash were not yet upon us. Still, the real 
reason that I'm taking this thing with me is
that I want to use it to allow backup of
photos that I collect.
 Back in the day the photo card was only 125 meg.
So I'd collect about an hours worth of photos and
then have to down load it. I was doing all of
this photo taking on the cheep. I only had one
card for the camera. When it was full, or if
the batteries ran down, I'd have to stop and
jocky batteries or turn on the laptop.
 I remember being parked, say, at a National
Seashore Parking lot, between the dunes and the 
scruff pines, somewhere in rural Maryland. It's
2004. All worried about secruity, looking suddenly
towards any other automobile that might be
turning into this same parking lot. Sketch looking
people look less sketchy when I get good sleep.
Expectations of happy encounters result in
happy encounters. Expectations of gang activity 
can be met with gang-like response. YOu get what
you expect in life. Otherwise, you get nothing 
because you are given it and you don't recognize
it so you get nothing.
 That is the short rule of improving the 
expectations of your own mind. and I don't like
getting TSA notes in my luggage. I've got that
giant laptop and I'm sick of it. So I'm not 
bringing it with me on the plane anymore. I can
blog everythign I do to this website if I want to,
on line, with my own code. So if I'm using the 
excuse that the laptop is needed becayuse I'm
going to write weepy poetry and sad-sap shortstories
like I did on that rooftop in Key West or in that
cheep hotel room in Miami back in the old day.
A day of photos might have ten. One ofthe cafe
in which I ordered my meager day-starting 
large Cappacino, no sugar, no fat (no men left on).
and then maybe aphoto of hte outside of a 
mueseum. Say they didn't let you take photos
on the inside on account of them imagining
money to be made and it would be them and not
you who would make any (imagined) money. So I
take a photo of the outside of the mueseum.
 But then it's a photo of J. in the low light
of sunset. He'd been late to the cafe bar where
I went to pick him up. I drove him to San Jose
to find an apartment. I picked him up there and
drove him back to Bush in San Francisco. 
  Camera has no more room.

But now I will have the super sized 32 gig 
card. So, unless I get a video enabled Canon,
I won't be filling up that 32 gig card that
quickly. No more need for a boat anchor that
I need to lug around. . .

tiny touch screen
 dancer
    in my mind
  If I get a smart phone I'm going to want a
full sized keyboard for the thing. I am too 
efficient at data input to cobble myself with
carpel-tunnel inducing tiny-screen panels.
Do any of them allow a fullsized keyboard to
be blue-toothed over to them? (of course they
can).

Master / Slave 
processes
  No, I'm not talking about your relationship
with your finance company. Basically I mean
client/server
But probably Master/Slave catches more eyes.
(I'm looking for eyes to be caught, not giggly
adwords). So you have a system where one page 
is the master page and it assigns what is to be
viewed in the other servers. Clients are then
slaved over to what is specified by the master
client.
And so folks in a room can view the slave feeds
from the master and allow them to get the data
or view that they need to continue with whatever
it is that they are needing to do. IE: notes of
a meeting. IE: video feeds in a security briefing.
things like that.
 And so who is it that has these master/slave 
processes available as products? The theory of
it has been around for a long time. But who
is implementing this stuff for the public?

Wicked Clicking
  From what I am understanding from my ramblings
into JQuery is that it ought to be simple and
straight forward to assign on-click event handlers
to just about any image that I choose.
 So, from that, I can present thumbnails views and
then allow for the user to select the view. Then
a set of well thought out callbacks will allow 
various functionality of enlarging, stacking, and
laying out said images into a user-defined format.
 It would start by listing out the various 
possible activities such as on-click, on-move,
on-release. One would need to look at the various
W3C specs and decide what is available and then
use those. It's straight-forward stuff and I've
done it for native controls in a window many times
in the past.
 And then, after the whole thing is all laid out, 
the user can 'save'. Or the whole session is saved,
time tags are inserted, and the presentation is
then given that mimics what is specified within
a session-save. A click and mouse-move and keystroke
monitor program may have a similar effect.
 Automation is never trivial. That is why the effect
of it is so often put into a plug-in. And the kinds
of things that folks want to do: animation suitible
for putting in their movie, that is typically not
a trivial endevour and, to be on the cutting edge,
is so often necessary so that folks don't want
to wing it with free software and AJAX solutions.
 And then the old question comes up: why make a
reconfigurable solution for a program that is
not reconfigurable?
  The solution so many times is custom expert software.

  As a CEO ask yourself the question: what is
it that gives your company an edge? A secret and
possibly patentable process! So if you were to 
seek that secret edge will you demand that it be
done to adhere to standards where everyone in the world
could possibly, at the age of 4 years old, and hacking
into mommy's database, find your secret code-vob of
software and understand it at good enough a level so
that they can reroute your important routes and 
reboot your important boots? Meanwhile not even sure
what it is that they are doing but just knowing that
they are being naughty, as kids will do. Fast forward
ten years. The same kid is a fifteen year old. Do
you want your stuff to be so transparent that some
15 year old in 2021 will be able to hack in without
really trying that hard?

 I don't know what the answers are to these questions
for you, but for me . . . I say yes. Custom Expert
Software is the solution.

  A custom of 
   excellent
 software is your
  solution for
   Custom 
   Expert 
   Software

  Do you have CES? or do you have mush code?s


  WP April 4, 2011

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