About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
While I’ve actively avoided most of the new features and functionality in OS X Lion as part of my Focused MacBook Air effort I’m a huge fan of the 2-finger swipe between pages. Right now, I see it as the only part of Apple’s Bring-iOS-to-MacOS UI effort that feels natural, comfortable, and OMG-WHY-DIDN’T-THEY-DO-THIS-SOONER! Not having …
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I’ve been looking for a local source for honey. A place that really makes me feel good about the honey and the business. Just up the street in New Brighton, the Krosch family is in their third year of beekeeping. Backyard beekeeping within the city limits. Simply fantastic. Tonight, I stopped by to pick up …
The following brought great joy, optimism, and purpose to my morning: “Journalism itself is becoming obsolete….I happen to think journalism was a response to publishing being expensive. It cost a lot of money to push bits around the net before there was a net. They had to have huge capital-intensive printing plants, fleets of trucks …
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“Email is not broken, if you ask me. It could be better, for sure, but I don’t think it requires the drastic changes that so many other people seem to believe are necessary. And I certainly don’t need messaging intermediaries entering the picture. These alternatives just fracture what is for me a pretty well consolidated …
What do robots do when not our bidding? Discuss all the things we talk about when we think no one’s listening; god, unicorns, and our failing memories.
Earlier this spring, I picked up a used electric lawn mower. After performing marvelously for most of the summer – it died. Batteries no longer held a charge. Dead. Not that unusual in this household. The batteries in the 2 Dell Mini laptops in the house also, after 2 years, can’t hold a charge. Which, …
Knowing that the hard drive in my MacBook Pro will go at moment, I picked up a MacBook Air this week (13″, 1.8GHz, 256MB, 4GB). In the process of setting it up – I’ve decided to make this new machine a focused, minimal, work, machine. Despite Migration Assistant – I want to start some new …
“In other words, I need to unsubscribe from my old habits, and embrace new ones. It’s about time”. – Anna Spysz
In an effort to minimize my downtime when the funny noises this MacBook Pro is making finally amount to something – I’ve wired up a git repository to OS X’s native launchd service. The git repository hold all of my active projects – whether development projects with their own repos, research projects, consulting project. Everything. …
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