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Crafts, music, rides, food and awesome weather thru tomorrow at the Homewood Campus.

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I got a chance yesterday to hook up the RFID proof-of-concept kit that was given to me at last month's MIT Media Lab sponsor workshop. I unpacked the tag reader device and AC adapter from the chinese takeout container, and plugged it into the network and a power ports by my desk at work (pics 1 & 2).

Then in a web browser I logged into a special demo area in the lab's Treehouse system to register my tag reader hardware, upload some images, and associate them with stick-on ID tags (pic 3). I affixed the tags to color laser printouts of the three photos I uploaded (pic 4), and placed each page into a sheet protector.

When I waved one of the tagged photos over the reader (pic 5), the device flashed an LED and emitted a beep in confirmation of successfully reading the ID number. Immediately, the captioned digital image stored in the asset repository of Treehouse was highlighted and zoomed larger on screen (pic 6). The demo worked as planned and I now have a tiny extension of the Media Lab on my desk.

Admittedly, affixing unique RFID tags to prints in a photo album is a stretch in terms of practicality. However, this concept demo does send my mind racing into future applications for inexpensively tracking the location of, and managing the metadata for physical objects via the Internet.

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I estimate that we'll have to repeat this spoon-in-the-mouth move about 26,280 more times before our baby girl learns how to feed herself.

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There's a decent-sized flea market in Fells Point today. I picked up a slightly water damaged but quite readable copy of Edward Steichen's 1955 MOMA photo exhibition catalog, The Family of Man, and a cool Kikkerland Design 4-in-1 Bug Plier Pocket Tool.

Walking towards the harbor, I surveyed the scene at the end of Brown's Wharf where potted tulips dotted the foreground in front of the hazy view of the tug boats, pier, Tide Point (my old office), and the Domino Sugar factory.

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... at Wyman Park. Our bad dog wasn't photographed because she took a stroll through a swampy patch of ground.

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After lunch at the maul, we stopped into the Apple Store so I could pick up a remote/earphone kit and PocketDock firewire adapter for my iPod mini. Baby loved the rattle sound made by the blister-packed PocketDock. It won't be too many months before she starts clamoring for her own tech gadgets.

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We walked the Waverly Farmer's Market this morning under a dome of blue sky and warm breezes.

The market hasn't changed since the pictures from last June, but this year I have a baby attached to my chest.

The highlight of the market for me is the mushroom man's grilled portabella sandwiches, one of which I took home to have for brunch.

Let's see where the sunlight takes my happy belly next.

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After signing some papers at the bank this morning, I had a nice brunch with wife and baby. It's an intoxicatingly beautiful day out that should officially bake in spring fever. Now I'm waiting at Baltimore Penn Station for a mid-day commuter train back to DC and wishing I had taken the whole day off.

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