I find myself wondering, as I putter around the house doing dishes and watching TV and checking out new fonts, while facing another night of five hours of sleep (thanks for the genes, Mom)… what would my life be like if I got as much sleep as my son does? Aidan goes to bed, and […]
Month: February 2005
I love my swing-arm iMac
I was just thinknig, this morning, as I adjusted my swing-arm iMac’s screen for close up work, would I like one of the new G5 iMacs? All it can do is tilt. If someone sits down next to me, I can turn this screen a little towards them, so we both get a good view. […]
Poor Keywords, I hardly knew ye
I’ve been using iPhoto 5 to try to (re)organize all my pictures. All 2,500 of them. iPhoto offers several facilities for doing this. You can see your pictures by date, and home in on a particular date or range of dates. You can scroll through your pictures visually, finding the one that stands out. Or […]
Navigation by search?
I was taking a look at Paul Nixon’s web site, and his links to the work they are doing redesigning the University of Arizona’s web site. They used to have a blog on which they described their work and solicited comments, and one of the comments struck me. “Put a big logo and a Google search […]
So, as you probably know, we do a lot of iSight-enabled iChat AV sessions with Grandma. On our end, we have the iSight attached to an iBook on a wireless network, so we just wander around after the boy (nee Grandson) and Grandma watches. He can go to the basement, to the bedroom, or even […]
I’ve only just started reading this book, but I already have had a few thoughts I wanted to note, so I thought I’d try a running review/commentary as I go. July 7, 2004. I’ve read chapter one. The little boy, Dylan, though six years old at the start of the book, makes me think so […]
Do you charge for creativity?
I wonder at this. Does one charge for the creative process? Say I am tasked with making something creative. A logo, an icon, a PowerPoint background (shudder). I hem, I haw, I try somethings, I troll the web, I try again, I change the colors, and eventually I come up with an idea. Do I […]