Every so often, I like to look at the keywords that bring people to my site. Usually, there isn’t anything all that interesting, but the keywords yesterday seemed like people were asking for advice, so I figured I would write a Dear Aldon blog post, after the style of Dear Abby for some of the searches I’ve received.

The most obvious question was

Does Canon SD1000 support high capacity SD cards?

The answer is yes. I have an 8 gigabyte SDHC card in mine and it works very nicely. It allows me to record about an hour of video, and I’ve never run out of space for pictures or videos. However, if you use the Canon Hackers Development Kit, (CHDK), which allows you to do all kinds of neat extra things with the camera, there are a few complications. I run the CHDK modifications to my Canon SD1000, but I had to get an SDHC card reader for my PC and I can’t get the Canon to boot with the CHDK. Instead I have to enable it when I want to. Not a biggie. If it were important, I’d spend the time getting it to boot.

How to modify Motorola razr v3xx

When I wrote about installing CHDK on the Canon SD1000, I mentioned my desire to mod my Motorola Razr V3xx. Back in 2007 I wrote a blog post about using my Razr as a podcast client. I haven’t done that much since then, but it worked, and with some of my more recent mods, it works very nicely.

Subsequently, I have modded my Razr a little bit using P2Kcommander. It is a bit of work, and I never did write up a blog post about how I did it. Let me simply say, it is possible. It takes a little time to get the idea, but once you understand, it’s pretty easy and cool. I haven’t done any sophisticated mods, like creating a new skin for the Razr, but if you want to chat about it, drop me a note.

”net use” and IPv6

Now that I have IPv6 running nicely on my computer and some friends’ computers, I use net use to connect to various IPv6 based computers. I’ve run into two caveats. First, you cannot use an IPv6 address in the net use line. Instead, you should use a DNS address that maps to an IPv6 address. For example, if I wanted to do a net use of ipv6.google.com (not that it is possible), I would have to do net use * \\ipv6.google.com\sharename instead of net use * \\ 2001:4860:b002::68:\sharename The colons drive Net Use crazy. It works nicely between later Windows based machines. However, the second caveat is that I don’t have a patch to samba that supports IPv6, so I can’t do a net use to an IPv6 linux box with Samba. Some day. I’m having the same problem with MySQL, but I do use ssh between IPv6 machines a lot.

Drupal

I got a lot of different searches on drupal. Looking for issues like different theme, one view, theme seo customize primary link and banner and so on. I wrote a lot about Drupal years ago, mostly version 4. Too much to go into in a blog post, but feel free to contact me.

Strangely related to that, someone did a search on free range cat. I wrote about a gathering of Drupal developers years ago in terms of herding free range cats. Probably not what the person was looking for.

was there a person who brought 6 puppies in a dog pound in woodbridge ct in 2006

Umm, I don’t know. We moved here in 2007 and have never been to the pound. Other searcher were looking for dec 19 2008 woodbridge area snow. I don’t know if they were looking for Woodbridge, CT, or for a Woodbridge in some other state, but I had my Woodbridge CT Snow Cam up yesterday. Another search was for the woodbridge ct three year technology plan It is a work in progress. If you have kids at Beecher Road School, you should have received a great survey from the PTO. Please, fill it out. If you want to get more involved, please contact the school. It is still in the formative stage. I will note here, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, that every school district in Connecticut should be filling out such a plan and I would love it if more people got involved in their school’s technology plans and shared ideas.

what is quality journalism?

I’m sure that many people have lots of opinions on this. I’d say start with the Society of Professional Journalists and the Investigative Reporters and Editors as two good places to start. Another search was Stamford advocate Greenwich time. I don’t know if these two searches were related. Somehow, I suspect they weren’t.

Various People

People also came to my site looking for Brian Cohn; I worked with him many years ago, Atty Nick Paindiris; I know him through Democratic politics in Connecticut, Rev Lesley Hay; she was a priest at Christ Church Bethany and has moved to a church in Hamden, we stay in touch, Jim Amann; I don’t have much to say about him, Scott Hanley; I like it that he helps find pound puppies new homes, State Rep Scott Franz; I really don’t know much about him, but I thought he was elected to the State Senate and isn’t a State Rep.

bankruptcy and suicide

I don’t know who did this search or exactly what they were searching for. I believe that there is a correlation between bankruptcies and suicide, but I’ve only heard anecdotal information. However, I want to let anyone know who is searching on this, bankruptcy isn’t the end of the world. It can be painful. You can feel like a failure. Yet it is a chance to start over. True, starting over is very difficult, and unscrupulous companies try to lure bankrupt people into questionable deals, but it can also bring you back to things that matter, family, friends, neighbors and the simple things of life.

I hope that everyone finds what they are looking for this holiday season, or perhaps, something even better than they were looking for. Happy holidays everyone.