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Read and shudder in fear: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/adobes-flash-and-apples-safari-fail-a-privacy-test/

Wow… Sal’s AppleScript book (AppleScript 1-2-3) is real. More than that, it’s here: FedEx just dropped it off (oddly from a Penske truck…). Coauthored by Bill Cheeseman, the book is a brick. Thick as a brick, that is. It’s actually heavier than a regular brick. When I’d ordered it from PeachPit, I didn’t look at [...]

An in-depth understanding of the Aperture data store is necessary for anyone who wants to do serious backups. Here is my analysis of how Aperture stores its data…
How Aperture stores its data: Aperture stores information about master images and all versions in tons of text files. Each master gets its own text file and [...]

Well, I am pretty sure that my Aperture Library is put back together. I am sure that I lost some metadata and edits. Not much but I am sure that something didn’t make the transition. That is one of the biggest problems with UI scripting - the lack of good usable feedback. My recover plan [...]

Aperture can export *some* of the metadata associated with your images quickly & easily. It can’t, however, reimport that data nor can it export all of the metadata from your images.
Hence these AppleScripts.
The first one will export the metadata for all selected file. It will save the data to a text file with [...]

As my MacBook Pro does its best impression of a computer possessed I continue to revise my rebuild plan. As I had mentioned before, I think that I know what the problem is but that fixing the problem may be difficult enough that it isn’t worthwhile.
Here is my current rebuild plan:

Reimport all images from [...]

Well, something terrible has happened to my Aperture Library. In theory, Aperture should be able to recover from corruption, but it appears that the source of my problems are the files that Aperture uses to rebuild the database. That means that every rebuild just puts bad stuff back into the database.
Bad mojo.
I think I [...]

I just realized that I apparently never posted this. At least I can’t find it…
Anyhow, using my Garmin eTrex HCx to navigate our way to and back from The Wave, I was able to use the excellent HoudahGeo to geocode my images. I then used some of those images to build a photographic journal of [...]

When some college friends and I planned to spend the weekend in Atlantic City, I must admit I wasn’t too thrilled about our choice in cities. We’d gone to AC shortly after we all turned 21 for some good old fashioned drinking and gambling, but that was more than a decade ago- and even then [...]

Hello, Jack Frost!

Originally uploaded by brettgross

We had our first frost this past week. I do love shooting the frost up close with my macro lens.