I’m bored. And that’s not good as evidenced by the fact I’m blogging, and thusly not giving undivided attention to class.
Let’s hope this doesn’t become a pattern again. My grade for this class is split between the midterm and the final, both of which look to require odious amounts of writing (did I say odious? Yea, I think I meant that).
Starting in t-minus 22 minutes. I don’t think I would call it anxiety, but as much as I don’t feel like coming back to class, I’m sure it will be more welcome than expected. At least the mental acrobatics will give me something else to occupy my thoughts with than what I’m not doing in my business (perfectionisms need to die anyway). At least we got a good start under the belt.
This should be interesting.
This is funny. The base configuration ($500 more than that mini I got) is slower.
For all the connectivity trade-offs even with the form factor… that’s trash.
That Mac Pro is sounding a good bit sweeter. But then again, why wouldn’t it?
Courtesy of Macworld.
I don’t like debugging. It reminds me of the introductory programming course I had to take at Rutgers. (This moment affords me an understanding of how the “computer illiterate” may feel with internet and all that good stuff at this time.)
Apparently, I’m having some issues with a wordpress error that has not been permitting me to upload and display images on the blog. And if you know anything about wordpress, as wonderful as the platform is, support for it is extremely frustrating, and do-it-yourself at best. Hopefully, I can do this sooner than later, so I can get back to modding this blog so I can present it to the world through the conventional methods (eg. a nice little link from the main page if you please).
Yea, I don’t like debugging. At all.
Writing for Engadget? Not sure what the pay would be like, but I gather it’d be an unquestionably good look just for the gear-whoreism.
Apple is making money. Info courtesy of one of my favorite tech blogs, Engadget. Interesting how they had to make 9.6B to walk away with 1.58B.
You don’t know my expenses, I gotta buy bigger plates…
Good ol’ cost of doing business for you. Looks like Apple’s is somewhere in the 8B range. What’s yours?
Looks like I’m gonna have to manually transfer all those old posts from the previous blog to this blog because the wordpress importer won’t work with a .com/whateveraddressyouhadyourblogatthatwasn’tthemainpage. I would say mean things about wordpress, but I like wordpress.
So I won’t. But I will complain about all those posts.
Update: Just discovered that if I switched the blogger blog to be hosted on blogspot (now done), I could import the posts, and man that worked kinda smoothly. Just didn’t get the images. And uh, I don’t know that I’m going to work to put those there images back up, so much as making a folder on flickr or something for all the images to come. Hosting them on the server seems to be a pain.
Lovely little camera hack there I found via the Pictage forums, with a connecting flight at Chris Humphrey’s blog. I won’t share it here though.
Just kidding. This thing made too much of my day not to share. Basically, using Canon’s custom function menus (No. 18 to be exact), you change the button that initiates focus from the typical half-shutter press to the * button located on the back of the camera. Then, instead of half-pressing, you use the good ol’ thumb (ever so conveniently placed in the same place anyway) to initiate focus — this kinda eliminates those hiccups when the camera locked focus, but didn’t “lock,” thusly preventing you from taking the picture.
And oh yea, if you throw the camera into “continuous” auto-focus mode, wonderful things start happening with that focus hit-rate. Yea. Seriously. This trick is like buying a new camera (although, not so quite like having a body with 45 or 51 auto focus points…).
Thanks Chris. Much appreciated. Funny thing is, he put this post up like the very same weekend I was leaving the day job. Talk about full circle.
Just stumbled across this link on some other guys that run around with cameras. From the Guardian, by way of Rob Galbraith. I’ve often wondered to myself if I should only be posting about business, and pictures, but let’s get real here: I’m not the stuff I read, but at least you get some reasonable semblance of an idea of the information digested by the lovely young man you consider hiring right?
Sans all the fanfare, Apple finally put out a replacement to ye ole’ Powerbook 12″. MacBook Air. They pulled this thing outta a manila envelope. Crazy. Expected. Impressive. And at the same time, not. I’d take a D3 for the dollars. For some reason though, it keeps making me think of Nike. Oh, yeah, that’s it. Stronger branding. More later.
But it does speak to the issue of art-meets-business matters that exist with the advent of digital photography.
You can read here and here if you’re a reader, I’ll couch the discussion with those two writings as references. Good stuff over there at roughlydrafted.com.
Up for discussion is the impact of digital, and a discourse on it’s implications for everything else. Conversations with friends often rested on the premise that the music industry was suffering because the internet was burgeoning and the monolithic record company was too stubborn to change its ways, insisted upon defending and protecting its stronghold of music tooth and nail, and effectively fell on its sword in the process (as Chase Jarvis would put it at that Photoshelter town meeting last September).
!! Man! It’s really a new year! Last September seems like so long ago… but I digress
What the good folks over at Roughly point out, however are some other not-so-highlighted trends in the industry that had their impact as well. Namely, the ability of an Apple Inc to address a consumer need (portability of content– not necessarily high quality), and a trend among record stores to get as much as they could for records while the Walmarts and Targets dished discs on the cheap just to get people in the door. Interesting.
People didn’t stop listening to music, and they didn’t stop buying it.
Very provocative article in the context of photography mind you. Begs the question of the photographer (or studio)’s ability to address the needs of the consumer. Do they really care about the megapixels or even the saturated colors? Or do they just want good pictures? Reliability perhaps and a pleasant photo experience?
Wheels turning.
People are still buying good pictures everyday (in various forms– magazines for one; yes people pick up magazine covers because of the photos that are printed on them just as much as the content found inside), but are we playing like the Sony’s and the Microsoft’s pushing them to something that really doesn’t matter to them (noting the aforementioned discourse on low-definition television versus high, and all that content folks are watching on youtube and ipods…)? The proliferation of digital cameras (as I’ve heard mentioned on so many forums), or even the availability of lower-cost-higher-megapixel-chippped-slr’s is not chasing away the photo client market. If anything, it’s presenting an opportunity for a great resurgence of appreciation for what photographer’s do. And do it, we must if you’re worth your weight in talent or business-savvy.
And it won’t get us anywhere to focus on trying to take them to places they can handle autonomously. (Here, have a look at this high-quality picture that you don’t care enough to chuck all your dvd’s to adopt..). Are we meeting them where they stand? Or trying to force them into running after a dangling carrot that no reasonable cause exists to go after?
I guess we’ll all see soon enough.
Or not.