Absorbing Photoshop World

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It’s shortly before the post-lunch session on day 3 of the conference. I have learned a lot, have a book of workshop handouts as bigg as a phone book, and there’s much more to come. Among the important things I’ve learned here: shoot a lot; shoot RAW if possible, thought JPEG isn’t filthy awful rotten … Read more

We’re Back From Paris

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Back from our trip, including 2 nights in Avignon, 2 in Geneva, and the final 6 in a small apartment in St. Germain des Pres. Much more about this to come, with links and pictures. Great food, cool weather (three hailstorms – small and brief enough to be interesting instead of overwhelming), museums and art, ... Read more

Nous sommes arrivee

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Ellen and I are in the Air France arrivals lounge after a remarkably good flight. Business class is all it’s cracked up to be. The French keyboard on this iMac is quite different from the American layout. Odd. I hve to use the shift key to type a period, the a and q keys are … Read more

You’ll be glad you watched this.

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I have my hosting for this site and some others at Textdrive, which has an active, informative, and entertaining forum. I’ve learned a lot there about hosting web sites from the generous and talented people, customers and employees, that post there. It is a real community. I particularly enjoy the off-topic area known ast Textdrivel, ... Read more

Long-term backup [dive into mark]

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In the post Long-term backup at [dive into mark], Mark asks, “How do you back up 100 GB of data per year for 50 years? Or even 10 years?” The comments provide a valuable snapshot of much current thinking about how and where to save data for the long term. If that data is prized … Read more

Scripting News: Preserving ideas

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I’ve been thinking about the ephemera we’re all generating here on the web. So has Dave Winer. No one really likes to think about dying, but it comes for everyone, eventually, and if you’re living a creative life, as so many of us are these days, maybe you’d like your creations to live at least … Read more

“We Face Follicular Armageddon”

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Andrew Barnett, writing in a Beards thread in the Textdrive forums, called this his “near-favourite blog post evah: We Face Follicular Armageddon. Just hurry up and go read it, but don’t drink anything while you do.

The New York Review of Books

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I don’t remember when I came across the site for the NYRB. I find usually that one of their pieces will last one or both rides to work and back on MARTA. I’m linking to a couple of long-ish reads, but I found them particularly valuable. First, The Surge, an assessment of the almost current … Read more

World Subway Maps

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Downloadble, hi-resolution maps of subway systems around the world at travel site Amadeus.net.