Things that I’m looking forward to, or checking out right now: Fictionplane: Band fronted by Joe Summer, Sting’s son. Saw them last night, opening for The Police. Quite possibly the best opening band I’ve ever seen. The Simpsons Movie Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man (he’s become one of my favorite actors after 2005’s Kiss…
Getting RubyCocoa running once you install Safari 3 Beta
If, like me, you were foolish enough to install the Safari 3 beta, and are now wondering why the heck RubyCocoa won’t work (or worse yet, why the install keeps failing), check out the article Safari 2, Safari 3, Adium & forcing WebKit Frameworks from SubtleGradient.com. Once I went through the steps outlined here, things…
HowTube 006 – iPhone Tips, Part 1
Last week, I posted a video full of iPhone tips [No longer online —Ed. 2015-08-13] on HowTube. More tips to come soon.
iPhone Points
So far, the iPhone is 95% joy, and 5% infuriating. Some of the high (and low) points: It’s incredibly scratch-resistant. Bluetooth hands-free headsets work incredibly well. Well, at least my JawBone does. No to-dos. Ta-da Lists have a nice iPhone-specific interface now, but I still want some sort of OmniFocus-like GTD task list for this…
The iPhone Line
Out of many possible locations near me, I picked the AT&T store in Silver Spring, MD to wait in line, hopefully to acquire an iPhone. I picked AT&T instead of Apple mainly due to Steve Jobs’ earlier comment about fewer people probably being at the AT&T stores. This one was closest to my work, but…
Morale-O-Meter
PXC Drawing Boot Camp, Week 01
Taking a drawing class through PixelCorps this summer, with instructor Ian McCaig. First assignment was a self-portrait, and this is my 2nd try at it, with Ian’s suggestions to take a photo, turn it upside down, and draw from that. I was surprised at how it turned out.