My first 48 hours with the new Intel CoreDuo Mac mini have unfortunately been somewhat disappointing. Don’t get me wrong—The mini itself is great, I love Front Row, and the fact that I’ve got an optical audio out built-in instead of an Edirol box hanging off the side of the mini is amazing. (BTW, if […]
Here, I was, all ready to do a clever video tutorial on how to use Handbrake to rip video from your DVDs to your 5G iPod (aka, iPod with video), and I see there’s a clever app called iSquint that is optimized for doing just that. Except— wait. No it isn’t. You’d have to decrypt and rip the video to your hard drive first. And then, of course, there’s getting all that meta–data into the file… Hmmm…. seems like there’s call for an all-encompassing tutorial after all.
Another indispensable item. The backside of a Heinz Ketchup packet from a chinese restaurant. Can anyone translate this?
I’ve been working on implementing GTD, and part of that is working through all the random piles of crap I have spread about the house. So, now I have a shiny new 4-drawer filing cabinet (reminds me a lot of my Grandpa’s) and I’ve been furiously creating folder labels and filing things for a week and a half now.
Of course, one of the joys of doing this is coming across cool random old things like this X.com debit card— an online banking service that was bought by Paypal shortly after I signed up. Ah, the heady days of the internet…
Made it through the Spiderworks book on C just fine. Made it halfway through the Apple book, The Objective-C Programming Language… and then… my eyes started to glaze over.
I think the real reason is, I need practical experience with this stuff—the C book had exercises I could do, and most of the chapters […]
I’ve been meaning to learn Mac programming with Cocoa for two years now, and finally am getting off my ass. Since the first of the year, I’ve gone through Spiderworks’ “Learn C on the Macintosh” eBook. Just finished that last night, now I’m starting Apple’s PDF doc “The Objective-C Programming Language,” and then after than […]
The first time I went to Vegas, it was sensory overload. Everything was amazing. The second time, my reaction was more, “Is this all there is?” Since then I’ve been there a couple times on business trips, and comes to terms with its superficiality. You have to enjoy it as it is, and not impose the the idea that it’s some magical wonderland.
My only recommendation — time your first flight in so you get there after sunset, and have a limo booked from the airport to your hotel, and make them take you for a drive down the Strip. You really want that neon and glitter to be your first impression of the city, because Vegas is supremely ugly during the day.
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