On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I got home in good time last night from watching William Gibson doing his reading at Library and Archives Canada(AKA "LAC"). It was a good reading, and Adrian Harewood did a good job of figuring out questions on the fly to ask him about his work. I suspect Mr. Harewood would've preferred a lot more time for more questions, as many other equally competent interviewers would in his place. But, everyone who doesn't operate on a "night-owl" biological clock needs to get home by a certain hour or they're not going to function at all well the next day, right?

So. One thing I learned from attempting my photography is this: I need a better camera. My Canon A70's six years old if memory serves me, Canon's discontinued manufacture of the camera as a whole camera for a couple of years now, and for simple reference photography and keeping my archives on the changes in my family it's great. It'll probably last me a good decade or even more, provided Canon keeps on supporting it with spare parts for that long and I keep taking good enough care of the thing otherwise. But the optical zoom is not what I'd like at times, and when I try to take shots from the other end of the kind of room we were in last night, especially without using flashbulbs(to avoid blinding the subject(s) even temporarily...well. I'll try to post a sample of the results here later. I'll just close this by saying the results are less than ideal and leave it there.

Something new I'm trying today: Flock. Seems to be useful as a blogging tool in addition to basic web browsing. I downloaded it last night at Bridgehead before I headed over to LAC. Seemed interesting to look at, and I'm testing out its blog entry publishing tools with this very entry on my LJ. I'll see how it works over the next month or so, although I don't expect it to replace XJournal just yet, if at all.

Still hunting day-jobs, still working on Local Hero pages. More to come on those fronts.

Back to you.