Not an entirely fair title, I grant, but I may be experienced the first pangs of remorse after an on-going fling with open source software. The task has been to implement an image bank on my work website, in spare time and with no money. Clearly a job for open source. The site itself runs on Nucleus, which really is a rather good open source content management system. 1 And some Nucleus enthusiasts have implemented a kind of photoblog on their sites. But I need much more functionality than those seem to offer.
Two gizmos, one manufacturer, one winner, one loser. The winner is the drop-dead gorgeous PowerMate controller from Griffin. It just works, leaving me wondering what I used to do without it. The loser, Griffin's iTrip. And the fault lies not with Griffin but with the vastly overcrowded airwaves here in Rome.
I love what happens when I put iTunes into shuffle mode and all songs. Wonderful transitions, like Jimi Hendrix Castles Made of Sand to Tim & We We Ca doing Hazo Ri Lagoureme. Makes even the dullest PageMaker session bearable. And that's just the most noticeable fabby segue so far today.
While I don't exactly agree with the ostensible reason for Plagiarist.com's existence (but see also Plagiarism.com), it is a very handy site for finding a copy of a poem in a hurry. Google sent me there to find some e.e. cummings and I did.
