My mother-in-law was visiting this past week and she was happily shooting pictures with her Canon Powershot SD30 and then the barrel decided to not retract and the camera gave the E18 error.
THE INFAMOUS E18 ERROR
Katie looks up this E18 error and it has it’s own web page and I found out there’s a wikipedia entry.
Seriously?
Apparently this is just one of those known things. In fact, yesterday Engadget made a joke of the prevalence of this issue.
This was annoying and we thought there was really no hope. The camera was bought in Christmas 2006. It was out of warranty.
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My dad’s relationship to cars is way different than mine. He has a nice Lexus LS460 and my mom drives a practical Volvo S80. They drive their cars separately every day to and from the same office.
So he wonders why we still have a solitary 1995 Geo Prizm that has a few cosmetic defects. For us it’s a great car with nearly 200,000 miles and no major issues.
Some years ago, I started biking to work exclusively. Katie decided to stop the auto insurance on her car and we shared the Prizm. Before we moved to California we donated her car since it hadn’t been driven for years.
California’s nice weather, and walkable/bikable neighborhoods allowed us to even further distance us from our car. Even for our morning commute, it’s a lot easier to take a shuttle to work, or if we’re up for it bike the 8 or 9 miles.
As far as life in Mountain View goes, the only time we drive is to Costco for our major grocery purchases, but everything else is walkable or bikable. Our car pretty much exists for weekends and large shopping trips.
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So I’m trying to do a bit more than the 2.5 miles to the station and back, so I biked to work today and decided to bike part of the way back like so:
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but ended up doing something more like:
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And I was totally confused. Luckily there was a VTA bus station nearby, and I noticed I was near the light rail which I intended to take home and another Yahoo! One company perk is Yahoo! has placed offices between my regular office in Santa Clara and my home in Mountain View. So I stopped by the local Yahoo! office and hopped on the wifi and posted this… I now wait for a shuttle 
I know this, but a lot of people were surprised that this is what I do at Yahoo! When I attended Lunch 2.0.
Yes, del.icio.us is a part of Yahoo!
People keep asking me how things are going in CA.
They are going well.
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