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My condo unit 104 still has Christmas availability the nights of Dec 23-27. See more info here. Email me if you are interested or book online. It's a 1 br 1 ba with wifi Internet in the newly remodeled Glacier Lodge. Two outdoor hot tubs and a pool. Steps to the Blackcomb Lifts.
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The Lending Library is one of the best kinds of social network applications. It makes something that would be hard to do in the physical world, easy to do on the Web. It taps into the shared wealth of our communities, in this case material wealth, and brings people together in person to exchange items. It operates against the tide of endless consumption of new goods and makes it easier to share and conserve resources. Finally, it uses the geographical organization of social networks to empower communities around the world.
As the holidays heighten our focus on consumption, I'd like to call attention to the material wealth already in our communities. So many of us have stuff we don't use but that we'd share with others, if only it was easier.
I created the Lending Library on Facebook to make it easy for friends to share real world items, instead of always having to buy new stuff for our own use.
In the Lending Library, you can share books, DVDs, electronic items, garden tools et al. List the items you wish to share. Search for items you need to borrow. The Lending Library makes it easy.
I'd like your help... try out the Lending Library today. If you are not already a Facebook user, the link will guide you through setting up an account and then take you into the library.
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. He's amazing. Although, Michael Franti's Yell Fire! is still the most inspirational CD I've heard in a long time.
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Apparently, Facebook advertisers can get away some fairly large breasted models. I hope this was air brushed because I'm afraid this poor woman may fall over at any moment. Facebook is becoming a bit more MySpace each day. Apparently, Cory Doctorow thinks it's headed towards self-perpetuated doom.
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Please try the Facebook Lending Library application I've written. It's still in beta but working very well. If you don't have a Facebook account, the link will guide you in signing up before visiting the application.
There is so much material wealth within our communities, the Facebook Lending Library makes it easy for you to share stuff with your friends, neighbors and coworkers. You list items that you wish to share, then other members can search and request items from your catalog. Likewise, you can search and request to borrow items from your friends' catalogs. It's quite easy.
The Lending Library is based on the model of real world community tool libraries, but you can share all kinds of things e.g. books, DVDs, electronic items, etc.
It's kind of like Napster for sharing music, books and lawn mowers except you actually have to meet folks in person to exchange items... and there are no lawyers.
Please let me know what you think! Enjoy!
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UPDATE: Oh my god, I love this thing. I can't believe I haven't signed up sooner. It's totally worth it. The performance and reliability is awesome. Now I can go work anywhere even if the public WiFi is down.
After four straight days of broken or painfully slow public WiFi this week, I realized it was having a huge negative impact on my effectiveness. I ran by the Verizon Wireless store and fifteen minutes later I am connected to their wireless national broadband - with a USB device similar to the Verizon Wireless USB720 EVDO Rev A USB Modem
Firefox is crashing regularly on Leopard. I'm using the Google Sync plug-in. I keep hoping the next update will fix these... but not yet. I'm on 2.0.9. It crashed trying to update to 2.0.10. Another bug I saw is that drop down select boxes stopped functioning properly in Firefox.
Bad Apple, bad...
Here's the Seattle Time's expert photographer on my owl shot:
Expert says: "My eyes go straight to the owl in this image because the photographer composed the scene so the bird would be framed between the tree's branches. One suggestion: Watch your focus when shooting with a shallow depth of field. If you look closely, the owl is not exactly sharp, but the branches on the right side of the frame and above his head are. When shooting with a low aperture in dim light, be sensitive to details like this."
— Jessica Oyanagi, Seattle Times photo production specialist
I'm guessing she didn't get a chance to read my submission: "It was hard focusing properly in the dark, but I managed to get a handful of nice shots." Her comments are funny because the night I got home, I emailed my neighbor, another pro photog, to ask him that exact question - how can you better focus at night. Auto focus doesn't work at all in that situation and it's very hard to see how you are doing manually.
Focusing in the dark required adjusting manually on different shots and then looking in the tiny viewfinder to guestimate how well sharp they were. Other owl pics are here.
Some guy was in a restroom stall at Uptown Espresso today having a heated employment discussion on his cell phone. The urinal is one thing but... Is no place safe from the cell phone?
My evening owl photo from Green Lake will be reader photo of the week in the Seattle Times on Thursday :) Look for it in the Northwest Weekend section.
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