December 2009
14 posts
Critical Distractions
Due to a snow storm in Portland, I ended up working from home today, or more accurately the Albina Press down the street. Today has been a super productive day, and when I was contracting a lot of my most productive days were spent in my favorite coffee shop as well.
I think this has to do with the amount of distractions occurring at once reaching a certain critical mass. When distractions come...
Aperture "Edit With..." Plug-in's not showing up?
I was having trouble with plug-in’s that I installed not showing up in Apertures ‘Edit With…’ menu. The solution was that I had to change the permissions of the ~/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Edit folder and make sure that I was authorized to read+write. You can do this directly from ‘Get Info’.
Requiem for the Dollar
Great article in the Wall Street Journal today about the loss of the gold standard and it’s impact on our financial system.
”Gold was money—is, in fact, still money—and the loss would set in train a series of painful but necessary adjustments in the country that had been watching baseball instead of making things to sell.”
The whole article really drives home the point of our entire...