jameel morrison | blog

Finally getting back in with some camera work. These courtesy of a chopped-up cornfield, some old timberland boots, and a couple other muddy situations.

Just finished reading Jason Snell’s review of the Macbook Air. I see the utility for some, and otherwise still think it a bad investment. My chips are going to a souped up Mac Pro sometime later this year (God-willing after the funds present themselves more appropriately). I do think for the most part that the MBA represents the overpriced-underpowered “problem” if you will that kinda takes flight in our consumeristic society. I’m not taking jabs at Apple; I still enjoy their products, and have an affinity for overpriced and overpowered cars that don’t seat many people.

But someone commenting on the product linked to this site, which really got the gears turning for me with respect to world considerations and technology. I didn’t even read all of the site, but the faq was more than provactive enough for me. Read it for yourself. Reflection on necessity has a way of bringing things back into focus. The comments are open.

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.