I usually stay pretty loyal to the Hampton Inn chain (I’ve been a faithful sleeper there since before I knew that Paris Hilton existed), but this week in Chicago I am staying at Kimpton’s Hotel Allegro. The hotel is nice enough and the staff certainly is friendly, but what impressed me was the housekeeping. Yeah. [...]
I recently bought the bullet (so to speak) and added some f/2.8 glass to my camera bag. Actually, the 70-200 f/2.8L IS is too big for my bag, but that’s not important here. What is important is that being able to shoot at a constant f/2.8 is weird. I’m used to having my max aperture [...]
I got the Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull in iTunes+ this week. I just got around to listening to it on the way to get pizza today… wow what an amazing sound! Apparently my Escape’s speakers are way better than my iPhone headphones as well. None of my other Tull sounds this good. I may [...]
From its beginnings in Mac OS X Tiger, Automator has been getting rave reviews. Automator opens up automation for the non-technical and allows for practically anyone to create powerful workflows. Since I’ve been an AppleScripter since System 7 Pro I’ve never really used Automator much. I found its building blocks approach to be limiting and [...]
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