Monthly Archives: September 2007

Apple updates iLife, iWork

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iLife '08 & iWork '08 Apple released a ton of updates last night to its popular iLife ’08 and iWork ’08 suites. All of the programs were updated (and iLife had two updates rolled out). Details are scant, but the updates promise to improve overall stability, and increase compatibility. iPhoto sees new greeting card templates for the Holidays, while iMovie sees a few features return from previous versions, such as manual audio fades and still frame creation. Other updates were not as significant. There was also a firmware upgrade for Core 2 Duo iMacs, MacBooks, and MacBook Pros.

LinkedIn adds Profile Photos

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Its been a long time in coming, but Linked In has joined the ranks of today’s modern Social Networks by adding photos to their profile page. I should rephrase that: by adding a photo to the profile page. As should be expected on a professional social network. I applaud the move, as this year I even added a photo to my resume, in an effort for it to stand out more. Its common practice for people in the rest of the world to attach a photo to their CV.

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Fire Wheel to launch a new game

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The folks behind IconBuffet, and BlinkSale are going to launch a new site with a game element. Details are forthcoming, but it seems to build upon what they learned when they added a point system to their light weight icon-trading social network.

I am really psyched to find out where this is going to lead. Fire Wheel, you may be on the verge of starting a revolution.

Paul Graham on Philosophy

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Aristotle’s goal was to find the most general of general principles. The examples he gives are convincing: an ordinary worker builds things a certain way out of habit; a master craftsman can do more because he grasps the underlying principles.

Paul Graham usually writes about hacking, but I think this article can be more generally applied to business and human endeavor. Ask yourself, what habit or comfort zone can I can myself out of, professionally? What would that do for my business?

DB Errors Fixed

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Mental note: Don’t perform a WordPress upgrade in the middle of the day, while trying to answer emails, read rss, and get out of the house to direct a photo shoot for a clients website.

In all the confusion, I forgot to upgrade the db when I uploaded the new WP 2.3 files, and left the site bork’d for a few hours this afternoon. Now back to your regularly scheduled program…