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Just a memory point for the latest in tiny cameras. Not ready to buy one of these just yet, but it sure would be nice to have a camera so small you can take it with you without thinking about it. My current model is the opposite of that.

I was expecting to like Remastered more than I did. The idea is that they give contemporary artists classic works of art, and ask them to give their take on the work.

Some of the work is really interesting, but some of it seems to be too influenced by the original or worse, not influenced nearly enough by the original. I guess it’s a really tough balance to be original while still working within the confines of the project.

So, I took my first vacation over seas.

I started out in New York City (Photos), which isn’t over seas, but which I’d never been to before. Then I went to Italy (Photos), Greece (Photos), Turkey — for a few hours (Photos), and a one night layover in Zuric Switzerland.

You can read an entirely too long travelogue, if you want, but it’s really long. Really, Really, Really Long!
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I’m still not really here (as per my article below). I just had to pop in to say that while I use Mozilla rather than Firefox (mostly just because I prefer the way they handle URL completion in the address bar), this article about how Greasemonkey will blow up business models makes me think that I may have to switch. It sounds too great and powerful to be without. Now, I wonder if there’s a hack to “fix” the address bar.

Entries have been kind of sparse around these parts lately. They’re probably going to get even sparser over the next few weeks. But, check back in June. There should be some entries in June.

How do you motivate people to change when even fear of death isn’t enough to motivate people to change? In Fast Company’s story, Change or Die suggests it takes reframing for a more emotional message, and radical, sweeping changes.

“If you look at people after coronary-artery bypass grafting two years later, 90% of them have not changed their lifestyle,” Miller said. “And that’s been studied over and over and over again. And so we’re missing some link in there. Even though they know they have a very bad disease and they know they should change their lifestyle, for whatever reason, they can’t.”

That seems truly amazing to me.

Wow, whoever edited together Bush’s speeches to make it sound like he’s singing Imagine/Walk on the Wild Side has some mad skills. Seriously, I was pretty impressed. via