Posted in Movies on Apr 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Mostly Martha (AKA Bella Martha) is an absolute gem of a movie. This movie is not a blockbuster, it’s a small, nuanced character study but, what characters to study!
Martha is an obsessive compulsive German master chef who cooks, lives, worries and tries desperately to control everything and eventually loses control and loves. Martha is [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Apr 29th, 2007 6 Comments »
Flintridge, California. I found a cluster of California poppies off the beaten track at Descanso Gardens and did a small series on the variability in this one square yard of flowers.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Macintosh on Apr 29th, 2007 No Comments »
gSpell is a system service extension for Mac OS X that uses the Google spelling engine to correct spelling. It looks at least as good if not better than OS X’s built in spelling service.
It goes without saying that in order to use it one must be online but these days we’re online quite a [...]
Posted in Food on Apr 28th, 2007 No Comments »
In Pursuit of Tea will give you everything you ever wanted to know about tea: growing, harvesting, buying, brewing and drinking, with a sprinkling of philosophy and politics tossed in the pot. Dang, tea is deep. I guess I knew that but now I really know it.
Source: Sandrine Harris
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Resources on Apr 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Free online seminar at Apple: Aperture for iPhoto Users. If you use iPhoto and are considering Aperture this should help you decide.
Posted in Macintosh on Apr 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Apple Zooms Past Rivals, With 88% Profit Growth: “The company surpassed even the most optimistic forecasts on strong sales of Macintosh computers and iPod music players.”
APPL broke $100 in after hours trading last night. Oh boy…
(Source NYT > Business.)
Posted in People on Apr 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Roger Ebert, film critic, has cancer in his salivary glands and jaw and has had disfiguring surgeries to remove the cancer. He can’t talk. Yet, his spirit is still very much alive and he’ll attend his Ninth Annual Overlooked Film Festival in Chicago.
Inspirational.
(Source Signal vs. Noise.)
Posted in Macintosh on Apr 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Garret Murray has re-released xPad as a universal binary. And, its now free. Great.
xPad is a nice little notepad application for Mac OS X that I used for years. I’m delighted he’s putting time into it again as it’s a useful application.
I also use Yojimbo which is industrial stregnth xPad and more but I think [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics on Apr 24th, 2007 No Comments »
NPR’s Talk of the Nation had a great show on today: Balancing Public Safety, Forced Mental Treatment.
It’s also available through the iTunes Music Store as a podcast: Podcasts/NPR/Talk of the Nation.
This show both describes a broken mental health system and some of the good that’s come from advocacy groups helping psychotic patients learn how to [...]
Posted in Video on Apr 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Only three things he’s been afraid of: electricity, heights… women. Great.
Source: Steve Splonskowski
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Apr 23rd, 2007 7 Comments »
Panic has released Coda, one-window web development for Mac OS X which looks like a wonderful combination of Transmit, their great FTP client, a text editor and a CSS editor all wrapped up in a very nice looking package.
I’m trying it right now and I’m liking it very much. The Panic guys have always been [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Resources on Apr 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Steve Simon has an interesting post at Inside Aperture on Warming Up.
I think for any activity where we expect to be “on” we need to warm up before the “on” time. Dancers know this as do jugglers and actors and performers of all types. Thinking of photography as “performance” isn’t far off the mark, not [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Social Software on Apr 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Chinese Political Prisoner Sues in U.S. Court, Saying Yahoo Helped Identify Dissidents: “The company is accused of abetting the commission of torture by helping Chinese authorities identify political dissidents who were later beaten and imprisoned.”
The fact that Cisco, Microsoft, and others have complied already as a cost of doing business in China is no excuse. [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Apr 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
I was driving home just now and heard a piece of this story on All Things Considered. I looked around on the web and found little trace of it. Amazing.
The media watchdog [Reporters Without Borders] accused Yahoo of becoming a “police informant” in order to further its business ambitions [in China]. Developing story at BBC [...]
Posted in Drumming, Music, People, Yoga on Apr 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Anne has a nice collection of music that she plays behind her yoga classes including work by Snatam Kaur (warning, flash site will resize your browser) who is an extremely talented musician and kirtan singer/chanter.
Three members of the group are Sikhs and while both the religion and kirtan have roots in India, both [...]
Posted in Social Software on Apr 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
WIRED’s Michael Calore spent a month using Google’s Web-Based Apps and documented it.
This is a useful read for anyone considering moving some or all of their work online.
Bottom line: even if the entire process was bulletproof, until one can be connected all the time, anywhere on earth (I’m sure Google is working on it) this [...]
Posted in Creatures, Our Place on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The most beautiful great blue heron I’ve ever seen landed on our pond today. He had a black pony tail and a "beard" of feathers in front the likes of which I’ve not seen in herons that land on our pond and he was big as herons go. He circled the pond on [...]
Posted in Photo Resources on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Canon updates EOS Digital Rebel XTi / 400D Firmware
This firmware update (Version 1.0.5) incorporates the following fixes and improvements:
* Fixes the printing of lens names when using PictBridge.
* [Redeye 1] can now be selected when connecting with specific printers.
* Improves the reliability of communication with the Speedlite 380EX.
This firmware update applies to cameras with firmware [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photographers on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Mário Venda Nova, a flickr contact of mine did an email interview with me on photography which he’s posted on his weblog in both Portuguese and English.
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. As some of you who live on the East Coast of the US know, we’ve all had a few days of intense rain. This type of storm is called a "nor’easter" because the storm moves from south and west to north and east (diagonally up the coast) and as it reaches New England [...]
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