Another attempt at pork and dòufu for
breakfast today. The original recipe wanted white pepper, like almost all dishes from
The Woks of Life. Like all things that
appear in multiple recipes (Shaoxing wine and Sodium bicarbonate also come to mind), I ignore them.
Today, though, I tried some white pepper. And how about that, it makes a big difference!
How Chinese cooking has changed since I started with recipe books over 50 years ago!
A message on LinkedIn a couple
of days ago: IBM Ozlabs is no more.
It's been a while. I joined Ozlabs in March 2000, and after the change to IBM, left again
in September 2002. And that's an indication: the history started before IBM, and it continues.
But somehow it's an indication that the market is changing.
Why are old cameras so popular? I collect those models that I see as pivotal in some way or
another, including my personal experience—that's why I bought a Diaxette a few
years back: it was my first real camera. But people want to take photos with these
old cameras. Why? I did buy a couple of films over 5 years ago, and I put one in my
Nikon FM2, but I still haven't
got round to finishing the roll.
I have one of them too, an Olympus
E-1: it was the first camera designed from ground up as a digital camera. I took a
couple of photos with it and marvelled how quickly technology improved over the following 10
years. But Robin doesn't just want to collect it: he wants to use it because of its colour
rendition. He's not alone: somehow modern cameras are so easy to use that they're becoming
boring.
Still, it gave me a chance to follow up on one thing that irritated me: I can't upgrade the
firmware on my camera, because Olympus have stopped
distributing the updates. Much investigation, coming up with this recommendation from Google Gemini. Looks excellent. Only one problem:
it's wrong.
For detailed instructions on applying these firmware updates, go to the following
webpage
And that link is broken. Bravo, Olympus!
Other links include this discussion, this page (“This
online resource is under construction, last update Feb. 2nd, 2012”), linking to a defunct
user group, but I couldn't find any indication of where the firmware file might be. How
much effort do I want to expend?
Bruno has been confined to the house
for a week now, and though he really wants to go outside, he seems to be coming to
terms with the situation. We're considering ways of restricting his movements outside, but
it's not clear that he would be happy with that, nor whether it would even work.
Still, he's finding ways. Cat toilet? Why not my struggling Thai basil pot? Not even chicken wire
can stop him:
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