Nick Postagulous
Sunday, February 15, 2004
I Am Nick Postagulous of www.postagulous.com!
The domain I bought started working sometime Saturday it seems. I have put little forwarding messages on both my old diaryland and my temporary blogspot site. I haven't worked out exactly how I want the template on this to look. This template is called Jellyfish, and, as minimalist as it is, it's still a little too flashy for me. I was so happy with the boring ol' diaryland look.
So, why did I leave Diaryland? Because it was difficult to work with, for one. Uploaded images were always sorted alphabetically. This site is actually at bellsouth and I can FTP into it at any time to do work using WS_FTP in it's Norton Commander-like interface. Not only that, but I have ten megs of storage space here. I'm contemplating getting an account at Pbase also, so that I can have images from my yet unbought digital camera stored there.
What Digital Camera?
Well, there are rules that dictate what camera I'll get. Number one rule is that I will not spend over $200 on the thing. Another rule is as small as possible. Based on those two, and looking at people's comments and the sample images at Pbase, I narrowed it down to one 3 megapixel camera, the Canon A300, and three 2 megpix cameras, the Minolta X20, and the Sony U30 or P32. However, Alison interjected a little rule. She wanted zoom. So out went everything but the X20. And, when forced to have a zoom, that's when I discovered the Nikons. The 2500 rocks. It is at the top of my list. However, when we were at a Valentine's party on Friday, I was able to see a U30. Man, they are mucho small. So, really, that's back on the list. The person who had it made me realize how nice it was by saying, "You know the slide show we did on the mission trip down to Mexico you saw this last week? Every picture in that was taken with a U30." The images were projected to be approx 20 feet by 16 feet and they looked great.
This is not to be confused with the digital video camera we will be buying before we go to China (a Sony TRV250 more than likely). We also need to buy shocks for my car (probably KYB GR-2s, or whatever that acro is), and a crib. We don't charge anything anymore, so that makes things fun for the next few months.
