The sun is rising and I’m continuing with the project of adding images to my existing journals. As I sort through them, I see that I missed a lot of great opportunities to add pertinent images through the years. What was I thinking? Of course I didn’t have the knowledge back then or the camera, but I could have grabbed images from the internet if I had only known how to do that; in 1991? Now I have to wander through a maze of sites looking for the perfect image to illustrate an event in 1991, 1992 or 1946. Also, I see more and more sites that don’t allow right-click, copy for their images. But if you can see the image on the screen, it’s already on your hard drive; just go to your temporary internet files and there it is. Copy and paste. It takes a little longer but it’s easily done.
Copyright arguments? Here’s my take…don’t give me an image if you don’t want me using it. Almost the same argument with music; I buy the CD, it’s mine. To do what I want with. I didn’t lease the music, I bought it. (And it was overpriced!) If you don’t want me lending it to others, don’t sell it. And if that cuts into recording artists wages…they should get into another line of work. Supply and demand. We actually need more rocket scientists and fewer singers.
Browsing away; and I found some interesting stuff from NPR; LPFM radio. Wouldn’t that be neat to have a really local radio station? 3.5 mile radius.
The more I use Firefox, the more I like it. The number of add-ons and themes is amazing! And one add-on, Cooliris, is great for previewing a site without actually clicking on the link and going there. It even opens up info from a site into a Word doc if you wish. Then, to make it even better, it offers to clean up after itself and remove any content that was placed on your computer. You don’t need your desktop cluttered with old Word doc’s. And I see that they are developing Cooliris for IE7 as well, so I may not have to make that decision to change browsers.
I'm pretty sure LPFM is dead for the timebeing. The FCC hasn't held any new rounds for applications in more than 3 years, from what I've read on various web sites and also on the FCC's web site.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad, too, because LPFM is such an awesome idea. Just another example of how big business fucks the little guy. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, my ass.