Carbon Glacier Hike
Jeff and Brett at Carbon Glacier Originally uploaded by necoffee. Saturday was spent away from the computer, enjoying a 7-mile hike to Carbon Glacier (near Mount Rainier) and back. The weather here in the Seattle area has been spectacular the past week, so my friend Brett suggested we actually get out in it. The hike ...
Sunlight of a Public Trial
Absolutely compelling entry at DailyKos about the sentencing of Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested at the Canada/Washington border on his way to bombing LAX airport. The judge’s comments are required reading: Despite the fact that Mr. Ressam is not an American citizen and despite the fact that he entered this country intent upon killing American ...
Powering Through the Tour
Mark McClusky at Wired has an interesting article about how pro cyclist Floyd Landis measured his power output during the just-concluded Tour de France (where he placed ninth overall): Powering Through the Tour. On his way to a ninth-place finish, Landis spent nearly four hours of the Tour at a power output level of more ...
How to create a vodcast
Christopher Breen once again proves that he doesn’t sleep and knows everything. I, on the other hand, have been actually catching up on some sleep and don’t know a whole lot yet about vodcasting (or the terrible “vlogging,” which sounds like “flogging” when you say it out loud, or just “video blogging”). Just as I ...
WiebeTech G505 Editing Contest
WeibeTech is sponsoring a video editing contest to win a G5Jam+, which lets you install up to 10 drives (six internal and four external) and a TrayDock eSATA, which is an external drive enclosure holding four drives that can be configured as a RAID. Entries are to be no longer than 5 minutes and be ...
Take Control of GarageBand Sale
Take Control Ebooks is having a sale on my friend Jeff Tolbert’s ebooks about GarageBand through the end of July. Buy both Take Control of Recording with GarageBand and Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand and take 30% off your entire order. I edited the Recording title, and think it’s a rock-solid book covering ...
Rove, GOP vs. National Security
Kos sums up my attitude about Rove and the mindless GOP response. This isn’t about partisanship: our country is demonstrably less safe thanks to the Bush administration’s outing of a covert CIA agent and subsequent pattern of lies attempting to cover it up for two years. Given what we know of the case, we know ...
iChat Movie Review: The Island
Caught a preview screening of Michael Bay’s The Island, a Logan’s Run redux with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. I was just chatting about it with a friend and figured I’d offer an iChat movie review™. We’ll see how this works out. we saw The Island tonight. slick mostly dumb SPECTACULAR crashes Scarlett is purty ...
E.R. for Hard Drives (NYTimes)
The New York Times has an article in today’s issue about companies such as DriveSavers, which rescues data from dead or damaged hard drives: E.R. for Hard Drives. If all computer users backed up their hard drives, the data recovery industry would barely exist. But the routine, like flossing teeth, is practiced regularly by few. ...
Remote Control column in Seattle Times
My latest Practical Mac column for The Seattle Times talks about how I was able to get Timbuktu Pro working on my mother-in-law’s Mac so that I can control it remotely: Remote control makes tech support easy. Patty would have to describe to me what she saw onscreen, reading every error message or menu list ...
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