Cortados on the Beach with CoffeeGeek Mark Prince
Mark Prince, founder of CoffeeGeek.com, made cortados for my wife and I at a beach in Victoria, BC using portable espresso equipment.
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Kirsner’s Ebook on Web Video
Last month I posted a link to Scott Kirsner’s (who runs the CinemaTech blog) list of Web sites that enable you to Make Money from Your Videos. Now, Scott has published a $15 electronic book on the topic: The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers. The 90-page book, ...
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Espresso Machine from Bomb Shells
Okay, enough about me and my progress on conquering all media. Let’s get back to the important stuff: coffee! Specifically, a man in Ethiopia who converts old weapon shells into espresso machines: “From weapons of war to great coffee“. I love this on so many levels that my head is spinning (or maybe that’s from ...
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Apple Insomnia Film Festival
Cool: Apple is sponsoring a movie contest for students with the amusing subhead, “Write, cast, shoot, edit, score, sleep. In that order.” On Friday, November 10 at 5 p.m. Eastern (2 p.m. Pacific), we will post a list of three elements that you will need to incorporate into your story. From that time, you will ...
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Authors on the celebrity circuit
So, after I appeared in the Seattle Times yesterday, I got an email from my father who points out that my officemate Kim Ricketts appears in today’s edition: “Authors on the celebrity circuit“. The article is about the types of literary events that she puts on, where an author comes to town and speaks to ...
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My Picture (and Article) in the Seattle Times
Jeff and Prints Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. Here’s another first for me: If you read Saturday’s Seattle Times, you might have caught my picture in the Business section. Not my headshot that sometimes accompanies my Practical Mac column (which appears online), but an actual photo of me. It goes along with an article I ...
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A Fix for MacBook Sudden Shutdown Syndrome
No product is ever perfect, even Apple’s wildly successful MacBook line. A small number of vocal MacBook owners have been experiencing annoying random shutdowns. Fortunately, according to Apple, a fix is finally at hand. Today’s release of MacBook SMC Firmware Update 1.1 promises to fix the problem by adjusting the MacBook’s internal monitoring system. Apple ...
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Adobe Releases Soundbooth Beta
Adobe’s been burning the development oil lately. Today it released a public beta of Adobe Soundbooth, an apparent competitor to Apple’s Soundtrack Pro that is “focused on creative professionals without audio expertise, or those who prefer an application focused on making short work of the most common tasks they handle every day. The tools in ...
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Al Gore at Starbucks HQ
Smiling Al Gore Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. I broke away from the office for a few hours Tuesday afternoon to catch an appearance by former Vice President Al Gore at Starbucks headquarters. He was in town to give his Keynote (not PowerPoint; I know, Mac geek) presentation on global warming the night before, and ...
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Cutting and Running from ‘Stay the Course’
Josh Marshall succinctly makes one of the most obvious comparisons: Bush the president and Bush the failed CEO/entrepreneur are exactly the same: Fundamentally, it doesn’t have to do with military strategy or ideology. It has to do with coming to grips with the monumental failure he has wrought, which of course he can never do. ...
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The Crook List
Wonkette has started assembling a list of Bush administration and Republican figures who have been imprisoned or resigned for legal reasons: The Crook List. Boy, that’s a lot of crooks.
