All Blog Posts (Page 32)

Jan 02, 2009
Photography

365

Ever heard of a 365 project? It’s where you shoot and post one photo every day for an entire year. It sounds straightforward, but it actually represents a huge time commitment. I’ve been thinking about doing one for a while, and finally worked up ...

Dec 31, 2008
Microsoft

The Day the Microsoft Zunes Stood Still

One user wrote: “From what I can tell it looks like every Zune 30 on the planet has suddenly crashed. Is this a virus? A glitch? A time bomb? A disgruntled Microsoft employee? Planned obsolescence to make us buy a new one? Or just a terrorist plot...

Dec 30, 2008
Developer Tools Mac OS X

Textmate competition == fail

I use TextMate for just about everything: Skytap Virtual Lab, processing random text files, storing notes and thoughts…you name it. I just heard about the new “TextMate killer” for the Mac from the creators of CSSEdit and gave it a try. The app, E...

Dec 30, 2008

playing with themes

Every year around this time, I start thinking that I need to do some cleanup on my personal website. It kinda-sorta happens eventually, but it seems to trickle in over the course of December, January, February and March, culminating in April when ...

Dec 30, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Paul Jenkins: The GOP's White Supremacy

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it. "Barack The Magic Negro" and Palm Beach aryanists are just the more bizarre manifestations of ...

Dec 30, 2008
Apple

25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek

"When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, 'Get it away!' and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you'll be crushed. You have ...

Dec 29, 2008

Surprise Surprise

I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta 1 into a VM on my Mac, and I find it to not only be inoffensive, but actually quite nice! Well worth the hour or two necessary to get it up and running, especially if you’re using Vista :P

Dec 19, 2008
Photography

Best Photos of 2008

The Boston Globe has a retrospective of the best 120 photos of 2008 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) up on Boston.com. I highly recommend looking at all of them, but if you don’t have the time, here are my favorites: Lighting above a volcano Space sh...

Dec 18, 2008
Seattle

Snow in Seattle

It snowed here in Seattle starting in the wee hours of the morning. I woke up from a thunderclap around 5:30AM, and then heard another one a few minutes later. We’ve only received a couple inches, but that’s still enough to tank the whole city. Ch...