I recently bought my daughter a Canon PowerShot SX40 HS camera for Christmas, call it an early present. Being an amateur photographer myself, it was inevitable that going out and buying a camera - even though not for me - would not have been a trivial exercise.

If it was me, I would never have purchased this camera. Anyone with more than 3 neurons will tell you that a camera with a 35x optical zoom lens (24mm - 840mm) will show significant amounts of aberrations, and with a tiny 1/2.3" CMOS sensor noise will be a problem, as well as dynamic range and colour depth.

However, my daughter seemed to like the way the camera holds in her hands, that it felt like a "real" camera and the zoom lens appealed to her. So… I bought it. Was about $430 if I remember correctly. Quite expensive for a Christmas present...

For the longest time I used to drink coffee only when it had three tablespoons of sugar in it. I remember how incredibly sweet coffee had to be before it was drinkable. In retrospect I guess when your parents only have Ricoffy as option, that is the only way to swallow it.

When I moved out of the house I discovered Nescafe Classic. A step-up from chicory drain water, this is at least real coffee. For a long time this is what I drank, and life was good. But like so many things, we tend to be content with the known at the expense of the unknown.

Eventually I grew up a couple of years ago and started grinding my own beans, and using a Hamilton Beach coffee maker similar to this model, basically made filter coffee at the strength of Espresso with warmed milk. This was much better, but still lacking the real deal.

From one of my recent walks of liberty.

Google has a new feature where it plots graphs from the search bar. But it is buggy

It produces:

I finally managed to get Drupal 7 work with MarsEdit and Blog API. Since I had a request to explain what I did, I have decided to include a summarised version of what was needed. Take note that I cannot give you a module that just works as the changes I had to make was quite specific to my installation. With some time and energy one can most probably make it generic, but I leave that to the reader.

First and foremost, the people at DITAinfo ported the core BlogAPI module that was removed from Drupal core, to Drupal 7. According to them it is working mostly, but for me it failed to work. In specific, the following functions did not work:

• Posting a new entry - the categories and body did not show up.
• Reading an entry - the body text and categories were not retrieved.