Tuesday, the 26th of February, 2002
The problem, it turns out, lies not with the SmartMedia cards, but with the MacOS. Apparently one cannot delete photos without subtly corrupting the card's filesystem; all deletions must be performed in the camera rather than the computer. A friendly tech at Glazer's reformatted the cards for me, and all is once again well.
Saturday, the 16th of February, 2002
There's a peculiar SmartMedia issue where the cards sometimes go bad in a way that renders them unreadable and unformattable. The last of my camera's memory cards succumbed to this flaw today and I am no longer able to supply my web site with pictures. I'm hesitant to purchase new memory cards, as it appears likely that I will get only a couple of months' use out of them, but I am even more hesitant to replace the camera and card reader with a Compact Flash system. Until I decide what to do, there'll be no more pictures here.