Archive for the ‘Off-topic’ Category

I’m continuing to get my new Macbook Air set up, and I’ve been getting adjusted to the new Finder. This helps if you’re a power user: Open the terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities/) Type the following (without quotation marks) to show hidden files: “defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true” Hit enter Type the following (without quotation

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Thanks to Lara McCulloch for pointing out that my subscription page was giving an error to anyone who tried to subscribe by email. The problem has been fixed. If you don’t subscribe to the blog yet, you should! You can subscribe to the RSS feed, or enter your email address here: These emails are sent

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Just some housecleaning matters for today. I’ve updated the look of the blog. Since I haven’t had the opportunity to test cross-browser compatibility, please let me know if you find anything out of place (particularly if you’re using a browser/operating system other than Chrome on OS X). I’ve also added a job board for digital

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Here’s a fun one. CNBC is reporting on Wall Street firm UBS getting the jump on Walmart’s earnings reports by measuring car traffic with satellite images. Apparently, the UBS group using the parking lot satellite images is more accurate at predicting earnings than the group using their traditional methods. I could try to come up

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Check out Danah Boyd (of Microsoft Research and Harvard) as she responds to some comments from Eric Schmidt (of Google). According to the story in the Wall Street Journal: “[Schmidt] predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to

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