Archive for January, 2008

Thoughts on iPod Touch

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Thoughts on iPod Touch

I’ve had an iPod Touch for almost a week now, and aside from driving people on Twitter nuts by exclaiming how unbelievably awesome it is, I have some thoughts on how it could be better. Nothing groundbreaking, I’m sure, as anyone who spends time with it will likely come up with a similar list.... »

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blog feed was borked – sorry for the noise

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Turns out the feed for my blog decided to bork about 4 days ago. David sent me a kind note (as he always seems to do about 5 minutes after fecal matter impacts spinning metal) but I couldn’t find wtf was wrong. A few days later, and it’s bugging me, and FeedBurner is choking... »

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The wonders of transparent menus

Thursday, January 17th, 2008
The wonders of transparent menus

MacOSX 10.5 added some bling, possibly to "catch up" with Vista. The transparent menu bar sucks. Completely. Please, someone at Apple, fix this. I've got my desktop picture set to cycle through some of my photographs. Most of the time, it’s not a big deal, but occasionally, one comes up that causes my menu bar... »

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Facebook considered harmful?

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Walking across campus this morning, I passed a couple dozen students with laptops open, sucking the wifi network. I wasn’t trying to snoop, but I noticed that well over half of them had browsers open to Facebook. It struck me that they are spending much of their time pumping content and data into a... »

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on twitter vs. the blog

Thursday, January 10th, 2008
on twitter vs. the blog

This post is in response to Chris’ Twitter Condom post. I’ve been on the fence regarding public or protected tweets on Twitter.com. I’ve actually toggled that switch at on at least 3 different occasions, and then reverted back to Public maybe a day later. Public tweets are visible to the world, indexed by Google, and make... »

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on photography as mindful seeing

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I want to preface this post by saying that I realize that it will sound like pretentious self-important aren’t-I-great writing. That’s not what I intended, but it’s difficult to write about this without throwing caution to the wind. Although I shoot a fair number of photographs, and at least partially identify myself as a... »

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Check your backups…

Monday, January 7th, 2008
Check your backups…

I just tried to navigate around in my Time Machine backup, only to find that it was woefully out of date. I’d set it to automatically back everything up, and had assumed that it would, you know, automatically back things up. It hadn’t been doing it. Since December 5, 2007. Over a month ago. And I’d assumed that... »

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Mooseward, ho! (i.e., Northern Voice 2008)

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Mooseward, ho! (i.e., Northern Voice 2008)

I just got my signed travel request approval to cover my pilgrimage to Lotusland for NothernVoice 2008. I mean, I was already planning on going, even if I had to stick the trip on my Visa card, but it’s nice to know I can go with blessings The moose is loose! As I’ve... »

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