Category Archives: Rants

Thoughts On Macintosh

April 18, 2007 – 4:09 am

It doesn’t feel like it, but I’ve had my Mac mini for well over a year. I started using it as my primary desktop machine when I moved down to Chapman about half a year ago. I’ve had a lot of time to think about the system as I was mastering it. I think that […]

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Talkin’ about my generation

April 11, 2007 – 2:17 am

A recent entry on Rex is Excited got me thinking about how people my age are using technology.
Rex writes:
I’m riding the bus down from school right now, heading home. I’m wearing my headphones, listening to a podcast on my iPod from O’Reilly, a discussion panel of non-techies about their experiences on the web. What I’d […]

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Avid Ruminations

March 10, 2007 – 2:11 am

I like how Avid Media Composer is the “industry standard” for nonlinear video editing equipment. Nice “industrial solution” you’ve got there.
Recent frustrations have prompted me to write an entry on Google pages. Figured I might as well link to it here and spread the love.

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Copyright and copywrong

February 24, 2007 – 12:42 am

So I was messing around with Google Pages the other day just to see how well it worked. It’s actually not bad at all for a web-based WYSIWYG editor, although it’s a bit clunky in Camino on Mac OS X. (Not as clunky as Wetpaint, but more unpredictable.)
Pages is still a Google labs beta, so […]

By Eliot | Also posted in Law, Ideas | Comments (2)