The MacBook Pro line in actual pixels. The 17 sounds really tempting until I remember the physical dimensions those pixels are packed into.
I’m really on the fence about between the 13 and 15 though. On the one hand, the 15 can run Pro Apple Apps I seldom use, on the other I’ve really gotten used to the 13 inch form factor. And $400 buys a lot of RAM.
Mike’s son at a family bonfire. That’s a pretty-close-to-perfect circle.
Sadly this is not my photo, it looked like a blast from half the world away.
From The Big Picture today about sulphur miners in Indonesia. These guys carry from 45 to 90kg (~100–200 lbs.) of sulfur several kilometers to a weigh-station several times a day. They are breathing sulfuric acid fumes while at the mining site.
That is stupefyingly hard work.
Love that she letterpressed a sign for a yard sale! Yes it’s overkill, but so delicious.
Dovetails nicely with this collection of guerilla flier redesigns (via glass)
I’ve been having trouble with my home wireless network. The AirPort (EXTREME!!!) Base Station periodically refuses to connect me to the internet. I get full bars but no web. I factory reset my Base Station and renamed the network in the process. This seems to have ironed out the original problem, but it created a new one. Whenever I woke my MacBook from sleep it would take ~30 seconds to acquire the network. Argh.
The solution turned out to be pretty simple. The new network name got tacked onto the end of my Preferred Networks list in the Network>AirPort Preference Pane (the Advanced… button in the lower right as of 10.5.6). Moving it to the top immediately eliminated the delay in connecting for me. Yay!
I couldn’t figure out why this worked until I took another look at the list. It was seeded with a few named “default,” “linksys,” and “belkin54g.” I imagine that the MacBook was recognizing identically named networks and spending time trying to negotiate a connection with them.
It’s pretty simple, but maybe this will help someone else who is as frustrated as I was.
Also, name your wireless networks!
Dowd Interviewed Twitter Founders Biz and Ev.
This is another of those instances where a journalist’s lack of a basic understanding of the subject matter is obvious to those familiar with it. When this happens every time you read about something you actually know about, you start to wonder whether you should bother reading anything else they write. What are the odds that they are only blowing the things that you know about?
Whoa.
From the 2009 Australasian CrossFit Games Qualifier.
Debugging our moral code. (TED Talk)
Clay Shirky writing about the need to focus on the problem of informing and empowering citizens not trying to preserve a specific institution that is organized around solving a logistical problem that no longer exists.
I know that I shouldn’t be too starry-eyed about the new Administration. Government has an enormous amount of inertia. It’s hard to make big (positive) changes and harder to do it quickly but I just can’t help but be encouraged by the little things that they are doing. Small bites that can make a meal of large problems.
For example the Stimulus package requires that government agencies report how they spend the money in an Atom/RSS feed. By itself this is not a big deal, what percentage of the population knows what RSS is or could do anything with the data that comes out of it. What excites me about this is that by making data available to organizations that can do something with it the Administration is taking its job and its citizens seriously.
