Archive for April, 2006

Weekend Jaunts

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

This weekend has been travel intensive for much of my family. I’m taking a break from San Francisco by hanging out down here in Los Angeles. Kathy and her mom are taking a break from Massachusetts by taking a road trip to Princeton. My parents are taking a break from South Carolina [...]

Looking It in the Mouth

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Today Apple released the second update to Aperture, taking us from version 1.01 to version 1.1. 1.1 addresses a large number of bugs and quirks that everyone and their brother noticed within about 30 minutes of unwrapping Aperture 1.0 and putting it through its paces. I won’t get into the details, except to [...]

Passing up the deal

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

I hate passing up a good deal. The other day in the grocery store I found that if I bought “six boxes of Kellogg’s cereal, size 10 oz. or larger” then I would receive a coupon good for “3 free gallons of milk on your next visit.”
Now, we drink milk like it’s going out [...]

Back

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Looks like the cannon is back where it belongs. You can read about it here or here, however, like I said before, I’m certain the retaliation will be far more… interesting.

Date Night

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Kathy and I escaped the house and the boys tonight for a fun date. Not only was it fun, but we discovered several intersting things along the way:

There is a Cracker Barrel in Northglenn. Cracker Barrel is delicious, and they serve sweet tea. Now all we need is for the new no-smoking [...]

The Challenge with Aperture

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

So, back to Aperture like I promised.
Aperture has a fantastic set of features built around sorting and organizing your images as they come in. It supports the notion of “stacks,” which are just clumps of pictures that you glob together, either manually or automatically by specifying a time interval. You can, for example, [...]