I’ve spent the last week or so configuring a new MacPro for one of our graphic artists. This this is insane. Quad Core Xeon (2.66ghz, 1333mhz FSB) with 8GB of RAM, twin 500GB HDD’s (tho not striped). Dual displays. A 20″, for holding the toolbars and palettes, and the main display [...]

Found that Towa Tei reissued his 1994 debut album and came across the song Luv Connection. Waaaaaay smooth and all the way up my alley. There’s a recurring 8-beat chorded passage that rocks my socks. I’m compiling the tracks to support and surround this wonderful song, the melodic, thematic and emotional anchor [...]

11 days with no bike.  That’s where I was this morning, as I had put my bike in the shop that many days ago after discovering my crankset had decided to show off its manufacturing defect my separating itself from the splined spindle that it rested upon, and proceeded to grind the inner chainring’s teeth [...]

The bride is very happy with the photos, so I can stop feeling weird about it for good.  Now’s where I start hoping this success leads to more of the same.  If you’ve got any luck to spare, toss it my way if you would.
For all her wonderfulness, I managed to stand only about 3 [...]

Am looking very seriously at biting the bullet and upgrading the CPU on the home PC to something dual core to replace the one I’ve been using for over 3 years now that is going flaky on me.  I was trying to do simple views to wedding shots I took in RAW and it was [...]