A notice I recieved from Livebooks

Livebooks sent this to me last night....

We are recommending that you do NOT upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard at this time. We have discovered that there is a compatibility issue between Flash Player and the new Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 release.

This issue has been acknowledged by Adobe® in the following blog post but unfortunately does not include a definitive date for a fix. We also know that this is an identified issue between Adobe and Apple that is affecting millions of people on any site which is delivering web upload capabilities through Adobe FlashTM Player. For example, there is a web post that identifies this as an issue for FlickrTM customers.

This issue is important to you as a liveBooks customer because it means that if you upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard you will NOT be able to upload any files to your website including images, galleries, movies, etc. The only area where upload will continue to function is within the FTP module of the liveBooks editSuite because this feature does not use Flash for upload.

coffee roasting at Black Pearl

coffee roasting at Black Pearl
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mmmm can you smell it?

Japancakes Loveless

So you want to set up lofty, challenging, okay, in fact completely unreasonable goals for yourself? Really? Well then, why not take on a widely accepted classic. Cover a song with which, even a decade and a half down the line, much of the indie-record-buying public, your present and potential audience, have some kind of passionate (maybe personal) involvement. Or if they haven’t, then won’t be especially interested anyway. None of this bringing the lesser-known work of a master to light business will do, just shoot straight for the gold, the unimpeachable pinnacle. Hell, why stop there, why not just do the whole album while you’re at it? Of course, you’re going to be faithful to the original. Sure, change the genre around a bit, re-imagine it, but keep things close enough to make direct comparison inevitable. Yeah, this is going to be virtually impossible to pull off to anyone’s satisfaction. You are Japancakes and you are attempting to cover, in its entirety, My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless.

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Now playing: Japancakes - I Only Said
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Flock - The Social Web Browser

Flock - The Social Web Browser


The new 1.0 version is out in beta and I must say it rocks!! All sorts of feeds can be monitored and used.
If you're into Youtube or Flickr, you really need to try this out.
I use it for all my rss feeds too!

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Blogger Buzz: Blogger Play: Watch the blogs go by

Shortly after Blogger launched photo uploading two years ago, one of our engineers whipped up a web page that would show us the pictures that were being uploaded in real time. The result was fun, often beautiful, but above all, compelling. We couldn’t stop watching.Over the years we’ve kept this photo scroller as part of the Blogger offices, on a monitor or projector, as an interesting (distracting?) slideshow, and a reminder of the diversity and vivaciousness of Blogger blogs. The fame of the scroller spread within Google, until one day we were asked, “so, when are you launching this?”“Um...,” we replied. But we knew a good idea when we heard one. We got our UI people to come up with buttons and fadey effects and we got our engineers to make the whole thing fast and robust. A bit of work later, and now we can share it with all of you:http://play.blogger.com/Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it. We also wrote a Blogger Play FAQ with more information.

Blogger Buzz: Blogger Play: Watch the blogs go by

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At the airport

At the airport
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

pumpkin patch

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The Raveonettes at WEC

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Inland Empire

INLAND EMPIRE
Watching the three hours is surprisingly the easy part. Some amazing images, weird scenes and great performances.
Trying to figure out what it all means, that's where the real work lies. Fortunately the work is compelling enough that you want to search out the various theories of what it's all about.

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Now playing: Manual - Marbella
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One shooter's move to the next level in storage

I predicted a few months ago, that this woul dbe an issue for many of us as the gigs pile. I am seeing more articles like this one.

Culled Storage: In Search of Liberal Media StorageOctober 11, 2007
By Bart Nagel

Backing up your digital files is a good thing—less onerous than clipping and sleeving negs, but as I recall from the Filmozoic Era, there always was a boring aspect to making photos.
A couple of years ago I was struggling with dozens of 500GB hard drives and a Macintosh OS X software mirroring solution that kept losing its groove.

Re-syncing the drives became a weekly chore that took an entire day each time, to my endless frustration and constant lament.

“Why don’t you invest in an enterprise-level storage solution?” asked my wife.Have sweeter words ever passed her lips? I think not.

Culled Storage: In Search of Liberal Media Storage

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The Raveonettes - Love In A Trashcan

Coming to the West End Oct 23rd. Not breaking any new ground with this music, but fun none the less!!

Eatons' Fall Winter 1975

Eatons' Fall Winter 1975
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Some pages from the 1975 Eaton's Catalogue I picked up at a book sale. Funny Stuff!

Right click fun!

Select a bunchof images in teh Finder and then right click (Control click) for a slideshow. The very same cool slideshow you get within Mail then runs! Thumbnail view and everything. Very cool!

The DIgital Lomo

The Digital Lomo LC-A

Jeff Laitila, over at Sushicam , has actually done it; he’s created a digital Lomo LC-A. Take one part Lomo Lc-a, one Epson RD-1 digital SLR and a few other buts and pieces from the hardware store (including some plastic pipe for the lens enclosure!) and you actually get a Digi-Lomo…and it actually works. Sure, it’s still in its infancy and will be tweaked but it’s indefinably one to keep an eye on for future updates. Here are the links to the project pages, part 1 (initial planning and taking things apart) and part 2 (putting it back together and actually using it successfully). [via]

 

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New Yorker article on Leica

By the way you should see some of the work now coming out of the M8. The kinks are worked out and it looks pretty amazing!

By the time you reach Oskar-Barnack-Strasse, the town has almost petered out; just before the railway line, however, there is a clutch of industrial buildings, with a red dot on the sign outside. As far as fanfare is concerned, that’s about it. But here is the place to go, if you want to find the most beautiful mechanical objects in the world

A Critic at Large: Candid Camera: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

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Canadian Cancer Society Annual Report

Canadian Cancer Society Annual Report on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (A CAPPELLA!?)

actually pretty good!!

Fall walk

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Gettin the beans

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Cookie Monster

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Best $3 ever spent!

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Soo Line

Soo Line
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The War

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/

I can't keep up with every episode of this series, but I try. When ever I stumbled into a few minutes I am reminded why Ken Burns is considered to be as good as they get with these docs. A simple pan across a powerful still image (an effect named after him!), or a veteran telling a story, coupled with some sober music, and you're drawn in.

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