Archive for March, 2006

Working From Two Machines

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

After I got my Intel iMac I was presented with the problem of needing to work on the same sources from two different machines. At first I thought I’d just keep two copies and use some sort of syncing software. That quickly showed itself to be problematic and I aborted that plan. [...]

Biphasic Sleep

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

My day is typically broken up into three distinct blocks of time. These include my day job, my family and then my time for roobasoft. The tricky part is finding enough time and minimizing overlap. Here’s what I’ve found that works for me:

1) Go to work.

2) Come home, eat with the family [...]

Core Image Fun House

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Core Image Fun House (found in /Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools/ (requires dev tools installed)) is pretty fun too. If I find enough time / boredom (unlikely) I’d love to do a Core Image Video Fun House (the name would be changed). You can apply Core Image filters to QuickTime, so it seems a necessary free [...]

iPod #3, DOA (again, not really dead, just useless)

Monday, March 6th, 2006

On January 30th I purchased a video iPod. Since then, I’ve held three different video iPods, each were considered “mine”. Each of these were enjoyable for about one day. At the end of that enjoyable day I realized the battery life was horrible. As soon as I notice and come to [...]

South Paw

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Lately my right wrist has been giving me some hints that it’s being abused (sharp pains). Thankfull it’s just my wrist and not my hands (yet). Ideally I’d just stop using these dang computer things so much and just let things heal themself, but that’s not really an option. So for the [...]

Photo Booth

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Photo Booth. The twins got a kick out of it too.


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