It’s amazing how quickly you can fill up 100gb. I started running out of space on my Macbook Pro and decided to start some ‘spring cleaning’ if you will.
Now, I love iTunes and I’m sure this is something that will be changed in Snow Leopard – at least I can hope.
After running Xslimmer I shaved nearly 100mb off of iTunes alone. This is just removing language and PPC bianaires from the app!
If iTunes is this slim in the future maybe it won’t eat so much RAM.
Opened up the new Safari 4 beta and was greeted with this screen.
Look familiar? Wrong medium, but spot on. GIVE ME MORE MEDIA, OM NOM NOM!
Athough, I was disappointed when I could only watch 2 channels on my video glasses.
The recent emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson river has made me think of three things.
First, after reading this story, it is entirely possible for people to keep their shit together in this day and age. There were few people who acted in a ignorant manner, but the common sense of the majority prevailed for once.
I love this quote from an article over on NyTimes.
Nick Gamache, 32, a software salesman, had moments earlier sent his wife a text message that read, “Planes on fire love you and the kids,” so he was naturally in a hurry to update her. But he paused as the pilot told him to carefully step into the raft.
Could you imaging being on the recieving end of that txt? What the wife must have thought when she saw that, sitting at her desk at work, at home with the kids, or out running errands? How mind blowing.
Then to hear on the news that there was in fact a crash landing. Crazy.
Second thing that amazes me most is the amount of video footage there is of the actual crash itself.
While I’m well aware we live in an time where almost everything is monitored this still blows my mind. Upon the first time hearing of the crash I just knew that given enough time some form of footage would appear.
Third and final is the lack of appreciation our society places on older people. While Captian Sullenberg is only 57, thats a few shy years from the forced retirement age of 60.
If a dude who is that close to retiring can land a fricking plane, in the middle of a river what else are people his age (and older) capable of?
We should all respect those with wisdom and experiences far greater than ours.
For those who are interested Jason Kottke has more on the crash, including a few other videos.
So for our family xmas present this year we picked up a Flip Mino HD. So far I’m really enjoying it. It’s super small, shoots great video and is fun to have around for all the funny moments with Kari.
I wasn’t about to carry around 2 full-size devices (we already have a nice DSLR) and I’d rather have really good photographs over really good video.
Without further ado, Jackie, Kari and I putting up the Christmas Tree.
Two years ago when I purchased my MacBook Pro I was interested in getting some sort of case for it. My colleague Jeff had this awesome sleeve for his Powerbook that I was in love with. Jeff and the other guys from the office all pitched in to get me the sleeve as a graduation present.
About a month ago the zipper broke. 🙁 I used this sleeve daily and always took great care when zipping it up. In fact it was almost always stored in my book bag, for added redundancy.
I thought to myself, “Crap. I’m going to have to buy a new one. No way there is any sort of warranty.”
Just to make sure I contacted booq, the makers of this great sleeve. They have a 5 year warrany! Since the sleeve was a gift I asked Jeff if he still had an copy of a recipt, invoice anything. Luckly he did. I sent off the sleeve, waited a few days and recieved a very polite email saying they recieved my sleeve.
They noted that it appeared to be defective and were going to replace it free of charge! The best part is that this apparently is a newer model sleeve. It is much more sturdy with a thicker foam insert.
I was impressed with my original sleeve*, impressed with thier customer service and the fact that I ended up getting an even better product is just icing.
I highly recommend booq if you want a great product and great service.
*So much that once my wife got her Mac we bought a sleeve for her as well