We had a beautiful night snowfall recently and even though it was after midnight, Ligia and I went out to walk through the garden. You may know these nights well if you live in a temperate climate. They tend to stick in your memory. Everything is quiet, eerily quiet. Even the sound of your own … Continue reading A winter night
Isn't it interesting how timeless and true good writing proves itself, even in our modern age, and even though it was originally intended for a different literary context? It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of … Continue reading The best of times
The following is an account of what happened to me in late 2012, when two of my Drobo units malfunctioned and corrupted or erased over 30,000 of my photos and videos, rendering them either completely unusable or making them vanish into digital ether. I have been a Drobo customer since late 2007, when I bought … Continue reading The time a Drobo lost over 30,000 of my photos and videos
Should you be old enough, you'll remember how different photography was before the arrival of digital cameras. Not only was it difficult to get great photos, the kind that were good enough for publication, but it was difficult to develop them and reproduce them. There were real barriers to entry and to success in the … Continue reading The flip side of digital photography
The single highest purpose in life. The more one lives, the more they ask themselves about the meaning of life. What's the point of it all? Why are we here? Who made us? We get into all these complicated discussions about origins and God and the afterlife, discussions that amount to just about zero. All … Continue reading Work
If you thought my MacBook Pro was old, then you're going to be surprised to hear that my mom has a 2007 iMac 24" (model A1225) that's still fully functional. Nothing has ever gone wrong with it, in spite of sending it to Romania via a shipping container (on one of those big ships) when … Continue reading An upgrade to my mom’s 2007 iMac
I have a fully functional MacBook Pro made in early 2008 (model A1260). While it's fairly slow when editing photos and I wouldn't try to edit 1080p video on it, it's just fine for word processing, web and email. It has become slow over time, as is the case with older hardware, so I thought … Continue reading An upgrade to my 2008 MacBook Pro
