Apple clearly weren’t the first to think white headphones would look good.

Rembrandt’s Portrait of an Elderly Man

Neil’s Hotmail Haiku reminded me to log into Hotmail to keep my id alive. I’m close to abandoning Hotmail altogether - I don’t use the email address for anything other than as a spam hole and enough of my contacts are on gtalk these days.

Once logged in, I was given the opportunity to use Windows Live Mail. Out of interest, I clicked through the registration process to see what its like. Having got to the end, it told me I would be able to access it within the next two weeks. Oh well, I thought. I then went back to hotmail, only to find I could access it already.

Well, not quite - here’s the message I got when I logged in:

Unsurprisingly, you need IE6.0 at least to make full use of Windows Live Mail - with a nice link to the IE homepage. Oh, apparently the full version also works with Firefox 1.5 - no link to the firefox page though.

I say apparently, because, you’ve guessed it, I am using Firefox 1.5.

I’m that bit closer to abandoning Hotmail altogether.

Having recently relearned about rotation matrices for my Ruby Cubes post, this made me laugh.

(via the excellent xkcd)

Since Flickr added the ability to geo-tag photos by dropping them onto a map provided by Yahoo Maps I have been keenly updating my photos as best I can. The main limitation has been the level of detail available outside the US on their maps. Note the past tense. Whilst working on my honeymoon photos I spotted that whilst I was away they have been busy updating their maps. I don’t know how wide-spread the update is, but it certainly looks good for my local area, as well as where we were went on holiday - Lanzarote.

Although, Google still wins for level of detail in the satellite image for that particular area - here’s our hotel.

First name Jack.

Little Moo, the print robot of Moo.com has delivered. As previously blogged, I ordered my free sample of moo-cards 10 days ago and they arrived today.

The cards arrived in a nice compact holder with a tear-drop hole in the front. This provides a great way to slide cards out with your thumb. The holder itself was gum-attached to a cool Moo postcard that I’ll be sure to add to my postcard-wall at work.

The problem with ordering 10 cards is that you have to be very selective of the photos you pick. As I mentioned in the last post, the Moo website has a great interface for doing this. I ended up going for a random collection of my photos - but I did pick a couple out that favoured the long and thin shape of the cards.

The cards came with a luggage-tag-esque card for my order; a nice way to include the order number with the delivery. I wonder if I could quote the number to Moo and get the order repeated - assuming it wasn’t one of the free 10-card packs.

One piece of feedback I have for Moo is to be careful in their escaping of characters on the tag. Its amazing how often I find myself called Mr O\’Leary.

There’s a lot of buzz around at the moment for Moo’s MiniCards - business cards using your photos from Flickr. What’s even better is the offer to all Pro users to get 10 cards free - mine should arrive in the next 10 days.

The site has been very well designed and is very simple to use. It took all of about 5 minutes to get my cards ordered - once I had picked the photos of course.

At only $19.99 for a pack of 100, its a great way to get business cards with a very personal touch. Considering I don’t often have a reason to hand out a business card, 100 would last me a long time.

I’ve driven just over twice around the equator and its only taken me 5 years to do it.