Adventures in Technology
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniSo, I let poor Sabu's battery run Completely Out and foresaw Many Tragedies thereby. Recharged him overnight, and then this morning after the mail run tapped him on to see How Bad It Was, which was -- not nearly as bad as I had feared. Had to re-establish Documents-to-Go and upMIRC, but after the programs were back, the files and settings magically appeared on their own. Go, Sabu!
Next in line was the camera-check. I have a lovely Olympus C-700 with a 10x optical zoom of which I am extremely fond. Best camera I've ever had, including the Nikon I dragged all over Central Maine during the Reporting Years. The camera's fine, but I needed to make sure the newly acquired smart media card was formatted correctly. No problems there, but -- They, in Their infinite wisdom -- are phasing out smart media cards. Obsolete technology. Hey! My camera's not that old, and I was looking forward to a many-years-long relationship, not a shallow affair that was going to founder on the lack of cheap-and-easy media. Sigh. But, the camera's fine, and to prove it I took a picture of Patia, which is now immortalized in Icon.
Next in line was the camera-check. I have a lovely Olympus C-700 with a 10x optical zoom of which I am extremely fond. Best camera I've ever had, including the Nikon I dragged all over Central Maine during the Reporting Years. The camera's fine, but I needed to make sure the newly acquired smart media card was formatted correctly. No problems there, but -- They, in Their infinite wisdom -- are phasing out smart media cards. Obsolete technology. Hey! My camera's not that old, and I was looking forward to a many-years-long relationship, not a shallow affair that was going to founder on the lack of cheap-and-easy media. Sigh. But, the camera's fine, and to prove it I took a picture of Patia, which is now immortalized in Icon.
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Date: 2004-06-29 05:28 pm (UTC)I was thinking of getting a new Memory Stick for my Clie, and then I saw the share price for Lexar was going down because they expected prices for flash memory to drop dramatically. So I'm waiting. My Clie needs a Stick to save mp3s, take movies and save stuff to, and I've gotten used to it as my mp3 player.
The silly Clie voided itself last weekend, so I made a quick trip to my office to sync it to my work PC (never have gotten it to sync with any of my Macs) so I didn't have to try to cope without it. And I made a paper copy of my address book in case this happens again. Whew. I wouldn't have bought a Sony Clie, because it doesn't work with Macs, but I won it in a draw and I have a PC on my work desk, too. I've gotten rather attached to it.
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Date: 2004-06-29 07:43 pm (UTC)Right now, all my family's digital cameras are CF, the camera I want to buy is CF, the digital audio recorder I want is CF.
We'll see what happens.