Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns
From the monthly archives:
Over a year ago I signed up for the Encyclopedia of Life ( EOL ) portal newsletter and this morning I received an email notice that the site had gone live with more then one million species pages.
Being curious to see how this interesting and promising EOL portal has matured, I tried to visit the site URL only to receive the following html message page. 
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It was a nice day yesterday so I decided to take our dog, Foster, for a walk in the woods. I also thought I’d take my camera along and get in a few shots.
When Foster goes along for a walk it’s always on a leash. He lives in the moment and all it takes is [...]
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the latest NVIDIA graphics processors with 512MB of video memory in the MacBook Pros; and
… These new models are available immediately with prices starting at $1,099 for the MacBook and $1,999 for the MacBook Pro.
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This weekend I discovered a plugin by Jay Williams, Pixelpost/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Export Plugin, that makes uploading photos from Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom to Pixelpost extremely easy.
… The only change or addition I personally would like to see made to this plugin, is the ability to set a specific date and time for the photo in PixelPost.
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Apple released iTunes 7.6.1 today as a 44.1 MB update.
According to information with the update:
Rent and download your favorite movies with iTunes on your computer or directly to your living room on Apple TV. Enjoy rented movies in sizes up to 720p HD with surround sound on your Apple TV and sizes up to DVD-quality [...]
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Overview:
I’ve installed OS X 10.5 Leopard on five Mac’s, four of which have no known issues. This post is about two issues I’ve had with Leopard on my main computer a Mac Pro.
Last fall when I installed OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on my main computer, a Mac Pro, I went against my better judgement and [...]
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I was playing around with the new Apple Aperture 2.0 photographic workflow application trial this morning and I noticed that the 10,000 photos per project limit had been removed.
Had this been removed in the later versions of Aperture 1.x?
I don’t know if there is a higher limit in version 2.0 or not. I got up [...]
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NPD Groups monthly console sales numbers were a surprise for January with the Sony PS3 in second place ahead of the Microsoft Xbox 360 and just behind Nintendo’s WII.
Ben Kuchera, Ars Technica, believes one reason for the recent success of the PS3 is that Blu-ray has all but won the HD disk format wars and the PS3 is being reconized as arguably the most capable player on the market.
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Since its introduction I’ve been curious if the Apple iPhone can sustain it’s sales numbers and viability over an extended period of time.
New, sexy, high-tech gadgets often sell well initially but then quickly lose their “must-have” factor. This quick aging-out cycle is often due to functional shortcomings of the product or the release of a [...]
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Now there were a couple of months where scheduling conflicts forced me to turned down invitations from Paul and I’m still striving to convince him that I wasn’t just dodging him during that time frame.
… Our lunch conversations usually covers a wide range of topics, but todays focused on photography and the making of a successful blog (we’d already solved all the rest of the World’s problems at prior lunches.)
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Apple released their much anticipated Leopard OS X 10.5.2 update that addresses complaints concerning some Leopard features, added new features and fixed many reported bugs.
… A Leopard Graphics 1.0 update was also released that was dependent upon the 10.5.2 update.
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SoFoBoMo '09
