Archive for January, 2008

When Good Cameras Go Bad

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Thanks to this apparently common E18 malfunction, my Canon S80 is dead. I’m doing my best with a loner Pentax while I look for a new camera; if the backgrounds on item pics (like the Something at right) look a little dismal for the next week or two, blame Canon. ;)
The Something in the pic […]

Somethings of Love

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Online retail confounds my mental calendar — while my family’s still nursing Christmas cookie hangovers, I’m thinking in terms of pink and purple and hearts and love. But that’s how this retail thing works, especially when seasonal items and shipping are involved. Tonight I introduced the Somethings of Love to Mint Conspiracy. Each Something of […]

Thought this was nifty…

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

There’s a place near the top of Etsy’s main page, next to the “all things handmade” tagline, where small photos of a few items are displayed. The items change every time you refresh — I believe there’s a bot that occasionally searches the site for product photos with clean white backgrounds, so it’s not like […]