September 15, 2008
Due to a series of scheduling conflicts and rain, I have not played soccer in a month. I’m very unhappy about this.
Soccer is my primary workout, so I haven’t had much physical exercise for the last month. The combination of this, and some heckling from my wife (she bet me I couldn’t), prompted me to try to run 5 miles today.
Well, I did it. 52 minutes, so just a bit over 10 minute miles. Not too bad I guess. But I’m sore. My heel hurts (I have a bone spur), my knee hurts, and my hips hurt. I won’t be running again for a while.
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September 13, 2008
I use a NAS to store all my media files (as well as backups, etc.). I share these files among multiple computers so I the share mapped as the M: drive on all the computers. This allows me to store the iTunes Library on the share, and have it work from any computer.
On my M: drive I have Music, Pictures, and Video folders. I have the Music folder set as available offline so I always have access to my music library. None of the other folders are available offline. This works fairly well, except recently when I return home Vista won’t reconnect the M: drive. I can navigate to any other shares on the NAS, so I’m connected and authenticated, but something is prohibiting Vista from reconnecting the M: drive. It just shows the Music folder but the other folders are ‘unavailable’.
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September 5, 2008
There were a lot of naysayers when Microsoft announced their new ad campaign with Jerry Seinfeld. Now that the first ad is out, I have to say they were right. What is this about?
This is their rebuttal to the Apple ads? The Apple ads were more style than substance maybe, but they all had a specific point to make that differentiated their products from Microsoft.
And to top it off, the Flash Player (what, no Silverlight?) they used didn’t allow you to pause/restart the ad. Annoying. The ads have been posted on YouTube several times and taken down just as quickly. I did a quick search on YouTube and found several (real) Apple ads. You are paying big bucks to get your message out, why are you having it taken down from a major video distributor?
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August 30, 2008
After my post about Obama’s VP selection, it’s only fair I analyze/mock McCain’s as well.
McCain picked Sara Palin, the Governor of Alaska, and ‘hockey mom’. It is certainly an interesting pick. She has no national experience, and is Governor of a pretty unique state. Granted, national experience isn’t a big deal (Governor seems to be a better path to President than Senator, except for this year at least), but Alaska isn’t a typical state either.
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August 23, 2008
The US election season officially kicks off in high gear today with the announcement of the first Vice Presidential Candidate. News Flash:
“Candidate of change selects old white man, Washington insider, in campaign against old white man.”
Joe Biden, a long time senator, two time presidential candidate, and hawk is selected by Obama as his running mate. The ticket is already being called Obiden.
I think Biden is a great choice to complement Obama’s weaknesses once he is elected. However, for the election he also helps accentuate the differences, with a treasure trove of quotes from Biden criticising Obama.
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August 20, 2008
Apple well on its way to becoming a dominant computing and personal electronics company. Apple is on the rise, and nothing is likely to change that in the near future.
That said, Apple is showing signs of growing pains. While the 3g iPhone is an amazing product (as the original was), it is starting to demonstrate some of the issues faced by even the best device and software vendors. Whether it was the uptime issues with MobileMe, the lags experienced by iPhone users, or the instability introduced by the third party software (or so they say), Apple is starting to experience some of the issues they’ve mocked their competitors for.
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August 20, 2008
My iTunes Export application was mentioned in a recent article on PC World (11 Things We Hate About iTunes). iTunes Export receives mentions quite regularly now, so that isn’t necessarily interesting on its own. What I did find interesting was what happened next…
The article was first posted on PC World about a week ago (August 11th). Since then, I’ve received about 800 visits from the link in the article (total for the week). As a comparison, when the application was mentioned on LifeHacker, I received over 2,400 visits in a single day. I was glad for the PC World mention, but it didn’t have a significant impact.
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August 12, 2008
Michael Wesch is an anthropologist with an interest in the Internet. He posted an interesting video a while back (The Machine is Using Us) that got quite a bit of attention.
I just saw (via John Battelle’s Blog) a video of him presenting at the Library of Congress. It is interesting to see him analyze and reflect on some of the changes that have occurred in the last few years, and how it is changing our world.
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July 28, 2008
Summer is flying by, and I continue to enjoy the nice weather and my new hobby (photography). After a nice walk around the local nature preserve, my son was still asleep in the stroller. So what do I do? I pull out the new softbox and try it out! Of course, he slept through the whole thing.
If you are interested in the full set of pictures, check out my family blog (email me if you don’t know the URL).
July 10, 2008
I’m certainly not on the cutting edge on this one, but I finally moved my main computer to Vista. I’m on day 4 now, and I don’t have a ton to say about it. Just a few observations…
For the most part, it just seems like a shinier version of XP. I don’t really care for the fancy GUI enhancements, but I haven’t bothered to turn them off either.
The Users directory with the new structure is much more rational than the old version. A good evolution.
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