Links, Kath & Kim, Nikon issues

Vivisimo's clustered searching: Possibly a better search than Google

From dragondream: New downloadable John Frusciante tracks!

Semagic 1.3.9.6 is now available. I can't use it yet, as I'm 10,000 miles from my Windows machine, and iJournal is currently beating xJournal for features and functionality. :)

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Last night, went over to Jillian & Oscar's to meet Kit (m) and watch a few old episodes of Kath & Kim, a strange but amusing Australian TV show--filmed in a handheld-camera pseudo-documentary style that actually fooled some less-than-clever people into thinking that it -was- a documentary. I'm also told that people like those portrayed in the show do exist, which is a little scary. :) As it was raining at a good clip when I went to leave sometime around 1am, I opted to sleep on their futon lounge instead, and go back to the hotel in the morning before work, which I did.

Nikon tells me that the reason I'm having difficulty transferring pictures off of my camera is that their software isn't as compatible with Panther (OS X 10.3.x) as it should be. Thus, I should ignore the documentation that says "use this transfer method, not the other one" and use the other method--and not have the Nikon Transfer functionality until they fix things up. iPhoto might still work, though, but I do like Nikon View's features better overall.

Update: Huzzah! Setting it to Mass Transfer (instead of Picture Transfer Protocol) made the computer recognize it as an external drive, and copying the photos over manually was easy. (However, neither piece of software will automatically transfer them at this point.)

Always progress, never proof

All files imported, organized in iPhoto--into albums, no less--and several panoramas made with the rather capable PanoramaMaker. (One exception was the view from my balcony, where it refused to stitch together one particular set of 5 images, so I had to trim it to four. It also picks terrible match points half the time, but those are customizable.) Rick, I also discovered it can automatically export to pannable QuickTime panoramas, but it assumes a 360º wrap even if it's only two pictures. :)

However, none yet uploaded. Waiting for some Frusciante tracks to finish downloading, which means I won't upload before I go to bed tonight. :)

And wisdom from Jillian:
Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
-- A.E. Housman, 1896, "Terence, this is stupid stuff"