Missives from the front lines of a High School English classroom.
04 Oct 08
Damn, Apple is good. This is a screenshot of an iPhoto feature I’ve never known about until now: Adjust Date and Time. Let’s say you, like me, have a digital camera which you have not set with the correct date and time. Using this command, found in the Photos menu, you can adjust the date and time for a single photo in an Event… and iPhoto will auto-adjust all of the others, computing the correct date and time relative to the one you set. Brilliant. Damn, Apple is good. This is a screenshot of an iPhoto feature I’ve never known about until now: Adjust Date and Time. Let’s say you, like me, have a digital camera which you have not set with the correct date and time. Using this command, found in the Photos menu, you can adjust the date and time for a single photo in an Event… and iPhoto will auto-adjust all of the others, computing the correct date and time relative to the one you set. Brilliant.

02 Oct 08
…you have to wonder a bit when George W. Bush, Barack Obama, John McCain, and the controlling party in the House all agree on something and Congress still won’t pass it.
— Mike Davidson
23 Sep 08
…it turns out that the best way to change the world is to open the closed-minded.
— Seth Godin 
19 Sep 08
You know, the new new Microsoft ads are better than the old new ones. Much better. We can argue the wisdom of following Apple, but it works.
— Me
12 Sep 08
Gruber: Hear me now, believe me later, Obama wins this election and it won’t be close. → Save this one… let’s see if he’s right.
11 Sep 08
T-shirt I wish I had yesterday. T-shirt I wish I had yesterday.

11 Sep 08
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? → Keep this one bookmarked.
10 Sep 08
…there’s nothing NBC has today that they wouldn’t have had if they’d never pulled their shows from iTunes a year ago — except for millions of dollars in lost revenue.
— Classic Gruber regarding the Sept. 9 music announcements from Apple, Inc.
06 Sep 08

Andy Ihnatko on Chrome:

The upshot: Each page you visit in Chrome runs as an isolated system process that can’t interfere with any other process. Chrome will manage that page’s demands so well that the page probably won’t affect system performance in the first place. If a script or resource on the page goes haywire, you can close it without bringing down the rest of the browser.


I still don’t see the big deal. I can’t remember the last time I had to quite Safari because of a problem with a specific website (ditto for FireFox on my school PC) and I just can’t see how Chrome matters to consumers. Web Developers, maybe, but consumers?
— Is Chrome gold?
01 Sep 08
Cooking dinner by the pool. Life in Florida is nice. Cooking dinner by the pool. Life in Florida is nice.