Posted in Ideas, Politics on Mar 31st, 2005 8 Comments »
The same George Bush who claimed to value life as he tried to intervene to keep Terri Schiavo alive, executed more people when he was Governor of Texas than any other Governor in history. He did it easily, without seeming to feel a thing about it. If memory serves, one of the women he executed, [...]
Posted in Our Place on Mar 31st, 2005 8 Comments »
Having just been under the weather for 8 weeks with a sinus infection I’ve been putting off cutting up the logs that were just delivered but time’s a wasting and when you have a spring day like yesterday you have to make firewood while the sun shines. I know these before and after shots don’t [...]
Posted in Social Software on Mar 31st, 2005 No Comments »
Are email newsletters still effective? (vs. RSS) is an interesting question and there are many things to consider in answering it. Email, even in this time of heavy spam, is the most broadly used internet technology. RSS can (although doesn’t have to) involve a non-browser client and many folks are stuck in the paradigm of [...]
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons on Mar 30th, 2005 2 Comments »
For more Andy Singer Cartoons as well as books, visit andysinger.com.
Posted in Macintosh on Mar 29th, 2005 88 Comments »
Just after the Macintosh came out there was a rumor about a programmable robot game called Chipwits that was coming out within year one. It sounded great to me and I was an early buyer of Chipwits. Chipwits was one of those hard to describe applications: sitting on the fence between game, simulation, and programming [...]
Posted in Ideas on Mar 29th, 2005 No Comments »
ACLU Pizza is a video about privacy issues, connectivity, and what can be done with information. The upside of this much connectivity and overview is that it certainly would have prevented 9/11. The downside is evident in the video. I guess, like everything, it matters who gets their hands on this information. On the other [...]
Posted in Social Software on Mar 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Upcoming.org is a free, community (world community) social events calendar. It has RSS feeds on any city or event and you can track what’s happening close to you or in some city you plan to visit. Like Flickr and del.icio.us, Upcoming.org is all about tags, an active community of users, and heavy use. I’m gonna [...]
Posted in Ideas on Mar 28th, 2005 No Comments »
CNet has an interesting article on one of the ironies of “the information age” Why can’t you pay attention anymore?. Hallowell has come up with yet another label: Attention Deficit Trait or ADT. This is what I’ve been calling “cultural ADD” for years. Fast workplaces coupled with a barrage of information to every sense and [...]
Posted in Drumming on Mar 28th, 2005 14 Comments »
The kanjira is a small (8″ x 2″) Indian tambourine with a single jingle. The one pictured here is made by The Cooperman Drum Company in Vermont. One of the more famous kanjira players and the person who designed this one for Cooperman is Ganesh Kumar. For a great demo of this little drum, watch [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Mar 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Things MacOS X is a nice collection of links to a variety of resources. One of them is yet another collection of OS X Links. (Via Justin Blanton Bits.)
Posted in Birds, Cats, Our Place on Mar 27th, 2005 No Comments »
I was up in the office, feeling sorry for myself that I had sold my long lens (Canon 70-200 f4) to a friend and good pictures were still happening while I awaited the arrival of a new long lens (Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS) when I noticed that the cat, who is now officially 15 was [...]
Posted in Our Place, Tools on Mar 26th, 2005 8 Comments »
Yesterday a neighbor with whom we trade firewood for web-related work came to deliver the logs that will be next year’s firewood to burn in our woodstove. This is the first part of a process that we’ve been doing at this house for nine years now. Each year the process gets better: easier, more efficient, [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Mar 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Boingboing has a great post about the history of the “sosumi” Macintosh system sound: Early Apple sound designer Jim Reekes corrects Sosumi myth. Follow some of the sound and movie links at the bottom. Interesting and fun stuff. Source: Daring Fireball
Posted in HyperCard, Macintosh on Mar 24th, 2005 9 Comments »
A long time ago there was this amazing multimedia development tool for the Macintosh called HyperCard. I got deeply into HyperCard in the nerdiest sense and built a lot of things with it. Most of the things I was building were reference tools for people with learning disabilities. After talking with a good friend who [...]
Posted in Photography on Mar 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
One of the cool things about flickr is that you can post other people’s pictures to your weblog. This is quite amazing. This girl in red is one of Phitar’s photos of Bangladesh. I saw it mentioned in flickr’s weblog today and really loved it so posted it. This is my first post of someone [...]
Posted in Photo Gear on Mar 24th, 2005 1 Comment »
If you are in the market for a lightweight tripod here’s a page that may be worth a read. It’s a bit easier to compare things in his chart than flipping around on B and H’s various product pages. Lighter-Weight Tripods for Travel: A Suitability Survey Source: Dale Allyn
Posted in Social Software on Mar 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr so the speculators were right. Interesting. I have a Flickr pro account and I use it to “feed” photos to this weblog. It looks like nothing will change except cheaper annual fees and more storage space. Fine by me. Time will tell.
Posted in Drumming, People on Mar 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Last night a small group of us drove down to New Jersey to hear Glen Velez do a concert with his wife Lori Cotler, an incredible South Indian vocal percussion (Konakkol) singer. Glen is the most famous frame drummer on earth and has influenced world music far and wide, won a Grammy Award, and collaborated [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Mar 19th, 2005 18 Comments »
I was a very early Mac user, having gotten my first one (an early production 128K model) from Steve Jobs and Mike Murray at the West Coast Computer Faire in late 1984. Once I had it I did what most people do who get something new, I looked for other early adopters. At the time [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Mar 19th, 2005 2 Comments »
Troubleshooting intermittent trackpad issues is an Apple tech note that helps solve some but not all trackpad issues on new G4 PowerBooks. I’ve not experienced any of these yet on my new 15″ model but I know others have.
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