My friend and flickr contact Ya Ya just posted a shot of the new year in Singapore. Dang, she’s ahead of us.

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Warren, Connecticut. Anne and I will undoubtedly be asleep when the clock strikes midnight here tonight. We’re new year’s eve duds for sure. We had a wonderful dinner with friends here in Warren last night and that, for us, will be it. However, I’d like to toast all of you and wish you a happy [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. Erin attended her first Christmas eve service at the First Congregational Church. We went to the early service which is tailored for kids and the place was teeming with them. I think she had a good time although she was a bit tentative in this picture. The minister is Cheryl Anderson who’s a [...]

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Forget Me Not 3.0 is a plugin for Safari (Macintosh web browser) that saves window and tab states and adds “undo close window” and “undo close tab” to the File menu. Looks great. (Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)

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(A Fading Signal): “The F.C.C.’s decision to no longer require Morse Code proficiency as a condition for an amateur radio license has shaken some ham radio operators.” (Source NYT > Business.)

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As some of you may remember, I dropped my MacBook Pro a little over a week ago and killed its internal hard disk. I ordered a replacement from Other World Computing and installed it and aside from some dings on the case I think I’m back up to speed with this computer. Testing the Internal [...]

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New York City. After a great day in New York, Anne and I entered Grand Central Station to find a wonderful light show going on. The music wasn’t great but the light show was.

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New York City. Aaron and I did a lens swap for a bit, he got my 24-70 and I got his 50mm f/1.2 and the first thing I did was shoot him shooting with my lens. The Canon 50mm L is a very nice lens and while there’s no way I’m getting one any time [...]

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New York City. These two Canon 50mm f/1.2 L lenses, when pointed at one another amplify the blur and bokeh between them enough to stop everything in Times Square. No one had ever tried this before and it had an immediate effect: Times Square ground to a halt struggling to move through the thick bokeh [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. We celebrate Chanukah and Christmas and Anne and I wish all of you a happy Holiday season. We’re not signing off for the weekend, just thought we’d let you know we’re already celebrating, eating too much and having fun.

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Seat Guru gives you planes models, airlines and seat layouts so you can decide which seat is best on a particular plane. Very useful. Source: Dale Allyn

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Warren, Connecticut. We live a half mile from this beautiful and clean lake and in the summer we swim, kayak, and just hang out on it. We see this view almost every day and my wife and I discuss the seasonal change in the lake and view often. By this time in years past the [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. My wife Anne has been making this holiday bread for over thirty years. The tradition is to have it with a sugary icing and lots of butter on Christmas morning. I have to say, even though Christmas isn’t my holiday, I look forward to this bread which is not quite as eggy as [...]

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Cartoon pioneer Joe Barbera who along with Bill Hanna created The Flintstones and other early cartoon classics has died. Hanna-Barbera’s cartoons have become icons of American pop culture and as important in the history of cartooning for television as Pixar is currently in the movie world. What a run: The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Huckleberry [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. A few days ago, early in the morning, while walking with coffee in one hand and this computer in the other, I tripped over a box and went flying. You can read the gory details here if you like. I back up my computer every day with a great product called SuperDuper! and [...]

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Two mornings ago while carrying a cup of coffee and my relatively new 15″ MacBook Pro, I tripped over a box and went flying. I wish someone had been there to take a picture as I know it was a spectacular fall. The sound of the computer hitting the wooden floor was so loud that [...]

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Flickr Backup is a utility for copying a flickr photostream back down to a computer. Many people are using flickr for archival storage which is a good idea in case one’s computer goes down but what if flickr goes down? This utility allows copying back down to a computer. Hey wait, but what if the [...]

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Daniel Schwill releases Tables 1.1 spreadsheet app for Macintosh OS X. Universal install, works on older and new Intel Macs. Tables web site Wow, this is great news and I just tried it, very slick and easy to use. Beautiful app too. I’m using AppleWorks’ spreadsheet for keeping track of financial stuff as I don’t [...]

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Patrick McFarland on How to Choose CD/DVD Archival Media. Cool, I happen to use Taiyo Yuden media, although I didn’t know much of what’s in this great post. (Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)

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David Pogue takes a look at Windows Vista and its similarity to Macintosh OS X.

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