Remembering where... (LINK)
July 12th 2008 08:42
I don’t have a lot to do with memory cards. I think the only card I ever use is the one that goes in the digital camera. (It’s an XD for those people who have to have this sort of info.) It’s fairly small but apparently by no means the smallest available.
Seemingly there’s a much smaller card than this. It’s called the micro SD and it’s 15mm × 11mm × 0.7mm. About the size of a fingernail, apparently. (A fingernail rather than a thumbnail, that is, and presumably the fingernail of a person with smallish fingers.)
The problem with an item as small as the micro sd is that it’s very easy to lose it. (We’ve just lost a cellphone
round the house somewhere, and that’s hard enough to find. Imagine losing something the size of your fingernail – or your fingernail, if it comes to that. I used to work for a firm called Bon Brushes, and ran their fairly small warehouse – it was larger than a fingernail, for those who have to have this sort of info. One day while doing some office work I managed to slice my fingernail clean off. Don’t ask me how – I don’t remember – all I remember is thinking, Now what do I do? I closed up shop, and walked to the nearest chemist, and they put some powder on it, and to my amazement, that sense of loss went and eventually the nail grew back. It was a bit scary at the time, however.)
Anyway, to digress even further than a fingernail, this morning a friend sent me an email that someone else had forwarded onto her. It consisted of about a dozen photographs of the new Olympic Gardens in Beijing. I won’t reproduce them here, because I think whoever started sending them around the Internet probably didn’t have permission. They’re on a site called Guest of a Guest, and appear to be private photos. Guest of a Guest may be a blog, but it’s a bit hard to tell. (Guest of a Guest actually says this about itself: Social News, Culture, and Interest Stories reported from the Big Apple.
Anyway, to save any problems with copyright, I’ll direct you to the link where you can see these amazing photos. Which presumably somebody took with a digital camera – with a memory card inside it. (Just thought I’d round off the post nicely.)
Footnote: Just remembered I was going to mention an ad I saw last night. It featured a digital camera for kids – I mean three-year-old kids. It’s so durable the kid can toss it down the stairs and it’ll survive. But why would you want to give a digital camera to a three-year-old?
Seemingly there’s a much smaller card than this. It’s called the micro SD and it’s 15mm × 11mm × 0.7mm. About the size of a fingernail, apparently. (A fingernail rather than a thumbnail, that is, and presumably the fingernail of a person with smallish fingers.)
The problem with an item as small as the micro sd is that it’s very easy to lose it. (We’ve just lost a cellphone
A 512 MB Kingston microSD card next to a Patriot SD adapter (left) and miniSD adapter (middle). - photo courtesy of the Wikipedia article on micro SDs
Anyway, to digress even further than a fingernail, this morning a friend sent me an email that someone else had forwarded onto her. It consisted of about a dozen photographs of the new Olympic Gardens in Beijing. I won’t reproduce them here, because I think whoever started sending them around the Internet probably didn’t have permission. They’re on a site called Guest of a Guest, and appear to be private photos. Guest of a Guest may be a blog, but it’s a bit hard to tell. (Guest of a Guest actually says this about itself: Social News, Culture, and Interest Stories reported from the Big Apple.
Anyway, to save any problems with copyright, I’ll direct you to the link where you can see these amazing photos. Which presumably somebody took with a digital camera – with a memory card inside it. (Just thought I’d round off the post nicely.)
Footnote: Just remembered I was going to mention an ad I saw last night. It featured a digital camera for kids – I mean three-year-old kids. It’s so durable the kid can toss it down the stairs and it’ll survive. But why would you want to give a digital camera to a three-year-old?
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