Too close for missiles; switching to guns….
So the other day was my birthday, and after dinner, cards, 3 boxes and a lot of packing popcorn I finally got the “You’re shittin’ me” moment when I torn into the last bit of wrapping and there I staring face to face with an iPhone box. With an iPhone in it. Seriously, this is … Read more
The other day when I installed Moblin back onto my Macbook with VMware, I just sort of went the route of set it, and forget it. I didn’t spend a lot of time playing, and didn’t pay a whole lot of attention either. I noticed the interface had changed, and like it, but that was … Read more
I originally installed Moblin 2 a while ago and was really impressed with how lightweight it was, how quickly it installed, and how absurdly fast it would boot. Well I fielded a couple of questions since then about a bit more detail, so I decided to put this slideshow together. Hosted from my Flickr account, … Read more
The last few days have been great, crazy fun and incredibly inspiring and informing. I have seen amazing imagery, spoken with amazing photographers and gotten to sponge off of decades of experience of all the instructors in the conference. Folks like Scott Kelby, Rod Harlan, Moose Peterson, Joe McNally, and Corey Barker just to name … Read more
I eat this stuff up, I really do. Going to conferences is always a great way to get back in touch with creativity; both technically and artistically. So far I have sat in on classes about creative composites, Illustrator Down & Dirty Tricks, Exploring 3D in Photoshop, and Exploring HDR. Good stuff, coming from a … Read more
Not really much to report other than my excitement about being in Boston, directly across from MIT, in the area of Fenway Park, and at Photoshop World for the first time. I checked in about 5, and went upstairs to the convention center and first thing I ran into a former colleague Laurie Excell from … Read more
After a couple of days messing around with my netbook trying to get it switched over to Linux, Ubuntu finally comes through for me and I get WiFi setup and on the net. Initially I started with the community guide on the Ubuntu site for getting Intrepid Ibex (8.10) up and running on my Acer … Read more
I decided a couple of days ago to rebuild my new Acer Aspire One to run on Moblin 2. Yeah, I know it’s only in Alpha, but I have it on my Mac, and it seemed cool so I jumped in and did it. It installed great from the USB drive I have. After using … Read more
The interwebs is indeed all aflutter about the new Skittles website, or lack thereof. If you haven’t seen it or heard about it, go there and go there now. I’ll wait…. Good. It’s actually really freakin’ cool what Agency.com did for Mars and Skittles – albeit it’s nothing more than a stunt and doesn’t really … Read more
I've been spending a lot of time working with SharePoint lately – or maybe still… I have been setting up a new portal, and several sites trying to get everything configured to be useful to the folks I work with. I came across the Application Templates supplied by Microsoft a few months ago and began … Read more
I ran across this movie on Quicktime some months ago and I have been fairly obsessed with it ever since. From the trailer and what I have read about its origins and Shane Acker – 9 seems to be an amazing movie. I've been a fan of animated movies from way back in the day. … Read more
Just tonight I ran across the moblin project that the good folks over at Intel are working on and it sounds too good to be true. Boot times are insanely fast – like 5 seconds, and the download is impossibly small at 264mb. Well from what I have seen so far, this thing is pretty … Read more
I have been living with my virtual desktops for a little more than week or so, at least consistently, and I have found that my initial infatuation with DeskSpace was blinded by lust. After running it for around 36 hours at two locations I discovered what a freakin' unbridled RAM pig this application really is. … Read more
Ever since I started playing around with Ubuntu and was introduced to the awesomeness that is Beryl, I became addicted to having virtual desktops. I love the fact that I can do that on my Mac lappy and have multiple apps running and be able to quickly switch from one to the other. Sadly – … Read more
First: if you haven't turned on your Zune today… Don't! Now read on. Leap years happen only once every four years, and many Zune owners this morning I bet are wishing it was a bit more rare than that. Around zero dark hundred (midnight) today owners of the 1st Gen. 30 gb Zune started experiencing … Read more