Why didn't anyone tell me…

encode Back Story We finally stepped part way into the HD era, by attaching a PS3 to our SD television. Sacrilege, I know, but it’s what I have for now, and the economy isn’t getting any better this week. But, as we only have two games for it (Little Big Planet and Mater-National Racing), we [...]

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My wandering uses of Quicken started with very early versions on Mac OS, back in the black and white days. Then there was the new age of color macs, and then shortly after was the Windows Revolution, where they discovered that there were greener fields on green screens. Then, suddenly, there was not one product [...]

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I know I’m not alone in this one, but I bring it up because today was the day that I take the late morning to polish/glaze/wax my car, which is twice-a-year occurrence. Waxing is quarterly, but this job potentially eats into the clearcoat a touch, so you treat it like dentist visits. The car is [...]

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I have a perfectly good car, my camera is in great condition, my lens collection is already too big, and yet, while I wait on installers to finish locking up my computers at work, I’ve been looking at the new BMWs, the new D3, the lenses that are better than mine, and so on. What’s [...]

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If you’re like me you read a lot of, “wow, that’d be neat” type of articles. Like on creating that Digital Bookshelf you’ve always been meaning to do. Or organizing your photos, or your parent’s photos, or writing that cool app you wish you had time for, or whatever it might be. I notice that [...]

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I have an Infrant ReadyNAS x600 or whatever they were back in those days, and it’s a rock solid little network server. I also run lots of differing Macs and PCs in the house. My backup solution up until Leopard was to take complete disk images. Since SuperDuper is still a week out of releasing [...]

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I’m doing more negative tagging within Aperture, this time it’s for my pre-digital days. The quality varies greatly from project to project, some being bad JPG scans of prints for which I have no negatives, some being medium format scans from a Nikon CoolScan 8000 (which I highly suggest), some being 35mm scans from either [...]

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Yesterday I had to drive to work – a somewhat occasional occurrance. First of all I had to spend $55 on gas, which was new to me. As my friend pointed out, when was the last time I filled up? My estimate was more than 3 weeks ago. My daily commute is less than 10 [...]

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I also have a couple missing pieces to this puzzle. If I carry my laptop with me wherever I go, I can read PDF files on the road. But I’ve been looking for a usable solution to read manuals/books/documents/whatever without the full keyboard etc. like on a PDA. Being previously employed by PalmSource, I looked [...]

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I’m not completely happy with my PDF storage mechanism yet. There are lots of pieces of solutions to this problem, but I want to address a couple things that aren’t normally addressed as part of the problem, which is why I’m not completely settled on what I’m doing now. Search files and contents Searching the [...]

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