I installed Adobe InDesign CS2 on my last laptop about a month ago. CS2 is old; it came out in 2005 and runs under Rosetta, but it worked great on my MacBook Pro 2007 with its Core 2 Duo. But that MacBook Pro was getting old, so work got me a shiny new one with [...]
Tagged Adobe, InDesign, Mac OS X, Migration Assistant, Product RegistrationForeward I looked over the results and decided that the methodology was a little suspect. Any category that had a large average distance weighed disproportionately into the results, so a good guess on hour (most people guessed late afternoon) or minute (which just had a huge spread) was a big boon. Similarly, results were pretty [...]
Tagged baby game, funThe most important part about the iPad are its limitations. But they’re important not because it defines what the device “can’t do”; in the fullness of time the App Store will likely bring us all sorts of new and interesting workarounds to the limitations. Rather, the limitations are important because it delineates the boundaries of [...]
Tagged Apple, Computing, iPadThere’s been a lot of linking to Stephen O’Grady’s piece on software patents lately, and I thought I’d do the same but provide my own twist on these arguments. The area of “software that should be patentable” exists between a floor defined by “algorithms and math” and a ceiling of things that are overbroad and [...]
Tagged IP, Patents, Software, TechnologyI wrote this Wednesday, but embargoed it until today so that I wouldn’t break the news to anyone Joseph is probably in his late sixties. He’s gruff, jewish, and has a trace of an eastern european accent. He’s bald, with a circle of hair that reminds one of bristles on a broom. Until a few [...]
Tagged Food, Lose It!, Lunch, Sandella'sThis Present Darkess is a fun little book, but it’s a novel and not a book about theology. Indeed, if you think about the theology too hard it all kind of falls apart. Let’s do it anyway. The book, for those of you who haven’t read it (you should; it’s a good romp if a [...]
Tagged Angels, Book Review, Frank E. Peretti, ReligionThe Hijacking of Jesus is a thin little book about how religion became a polarized political battle zone, and what to do about it. The book is a curious beast, though: it has a meandering style that belies the tour-of-the-countryside method of a magazine writer, which Wakefield is. This can work in a longer piece, [...]
Tagged Book Review, Dan Wakefield, Religion, ReviewThe Shack (Amazon Link) is this big little book that is really popular in Evangelical circles of late. Eugene Peterson compared its potential impact to Pilgrims Progress. My mom bought a copy and I read it. This entire entry is chock full of spoilers for The Shack, so you shouldn’t read it if you care [...]
Tagged Book Review, Literature, ReligionIf I were the President’s voice, this is the speech I would give next Wednesday. Ladies and Gentleman, Good Evening. Let us get straight to the point: the State of our Union is dire. We are on a precipice and we are teetering. Our past is catching up to us, and our future is uncertain. [...]
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