Don't expect this to make any sense.
A mile is one minute of arc in latitude. That's the nautical mile, anyway. The other mile is about 200 meters shorter or so. But I prefer the definition of one minute of arc... It seems somehow less arbitrary. Only as arbitrary as the size of the earth and its speed of rotation, and the decision that there should be 360 degrees in a circle.
A knot, by the way, is one nautical mile an hour, which is a highly recursive definition.
But anyway. A mile is a large unit of measure. It's a semi-big distance. A motivated person could walk 23 miles in a day, couldn't they? So the distance isn't insurmountable.
...just where the name "Mile23" comes from.
Tiny alcohol stoves made out of soda cans: Zen stoves.
Anybody who wants to can get a user account here, subject to approval. With that comes a 'blog and the ability to comment, but no guarantee.
That last bit about guarantees comes from the fact that I'm not sure what's in store for this little web site.
Don't let sean be the only one. :-)
I modified the image module to spit out a ColorInfo tag for IE.
I want to host some image gallery type stuff here, so eventually there'll be a mod to image.module to determine an image's ICC profile and send it out properly, but for now, it's all sRGB, bay-bee.
More info on color management for the web.
Once upon a time I wrote a piece of software for Mac OS 8.1 to 9.2 called Wowser.
What it did was it allowed you to choose which web browser was your favorite, and launch that one if no other browser was open. But if a different browser was open, it would use the one that was running, rather than launching your favorite one.
I'm getting a lot of referrers from Google, looking for the Fremont Solstice Parade 2005.
Well, I just wanted to point out that my pictures of the Fremont Solstice Parade 2005 are linked from here. :-)
Also, a separate photo album for the west African dance troupe I was there to 'cover.'
So there ye go.
