Aperture is always “improving” but never becomes great. I often felt that I was fighting it to get my work done. Lightroom is consistently good and very stable. I’ve never felt that I was fighting it. I try to avoid Adobe products where possible due to the (often) poor interface design; however, Marco’s statement is exactly why I settled on Lightroom. Aperture felt like slogging through mud most of the time. ...
After considering for months on end, reading reviews, testing out the software version on the PC, Mac, and iPhone, and actually testing one out at a store, I finally purchased an Amazon Kindle 3G. Here are some “unboxing” pictures. The Amazon Kindle box Easy to open Nicely packaged A close-up of the screen – No, that is not a plastic sticker on the screen, that is E Ink. Beautiful, isn’t it? ...
Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark Twain Honoring Samuel Clemens’ wish, following his death, one hundred years (and several months) were allowed to pass before the first volume of the prolific author’s autobiography was released on Monday, October 18, 2010. It’s available on Kindle, also.
I’ve known a number of cats in my day, but none quite like you, Glennis. Your attitude and intelligence set you apart, and while I only had the pleasure to know you for a few years, you were a constant companion nonetheless. I’ll miss the afternoon naps on the couch with you curled up on my chest, the sound of your meow when I walked in the room, the times when you’d sneak attack the other cats. And I’ll miss cradling you in my arms and rubbing your belly while you purred and nuzzled my arm. ...
I have just begun reading Mark Sisson’s book, The Primal Blueprint, and I’ve decided to take The Primal Blueprint 30-day Challenge – which began two days ago, eek! – to coincide with my reading. It will involve some dietary changes and some minor adjustments to my current workout regimen, but overall, it seems like a good fit for me at this point in time, especially since I’ve hit my weight loss goal and now need to look toward lowering my body fat percentage and adjusting muscle mass upward. This would be that proverbial last 10% that is always so difficult to complete. ...
I am currently reading – more accurately working through – the book, How to be Rich and Happy, by John P. Strelecky and Tim Brownson. While reading over lunch today, a particular bit caught my interest. …[D]eath of our physical bodies will eventually happen to us all. I’m sorry if that news is a spoiler for you and you were unaware, but that is the way the game ends for everyone. You may be able to forestall death, but that’s about as far as you’ll get. ...
In the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” last week, AP Photographer Charlie Riedel captured photographs of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. The ecological destruction is going to get far worse. BP’s handling of this disaster is nothing short of criminal. You can do your part to send BP a clear message. Never purchase from BP brands again. The brands are: ...
Dave Pell must have been watching my online actions over the past few days when he fashioned his most recent post. And we can assume that the Facebook definitions will ultimately impact if not completely replace the existing definitions of these words – unless Webster’s suddenly gets another 400 million users of its dictionary. Maybe these new definitions aren’t so bad. For eight years after high school, I consistently referred to a former classmate as my girlfriend even though we hadn’t once seen each other since graduation. And today she’s my wife. A real wife, not just the internet kind. ...
That’s the question that greeted me in my e-mail inbox this morning. I subscribe to Seth Godin’s blog via e-mail because I enjoy receiving the knowledge he has to share in short form on a daily basis. The posts provide immediate inspiration and trigger thinking based on Seth’s own experiences and wisdom from years of practicing in the industry. So what of the e-mail? Well, Godin set out to do what he does on his blog, but in book form and with many contributors. Call it a crowd-sourced e-book. What’s more, is that it is a free download. Contributors include the inimitable Merlin Mann, the life hacker Gina Trapani, and the warring artist Stephen Pressfield. ...
Last week, Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, urged us to switch to Bing as the default search engine in Firefox. Since the release of Bing, I have been switching back and forth between it and Google’s search engine depending on my needs and the quality of the results I obtain from one or the other. While I’m still torn between who to make my default (probably neither for some time to come), Asa makes a compelling argument for going with the company that protects your privacy better. In a time when sites like Facebook make sweeping changes to privacy in an attempt to gain more traffic from search engines like Google and Bing, it’s nice to have some tools available that do not leech away all privacy. ...