365 project – 53/365

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.

53/365 – 11/18/2009

Love coming home late!

365 project – 51/365

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.

51/365 – 11/16/09

Would you like some scotch with that?

365 project update – looking for daily upload tips.

Lately I’ve been pretty bad about not only posting photos from my 365 but also taking the photos. So I’m trying to think of some ways to speed up my posting and enable quicker shots, even with a hectic schedule.

I think my first goal will be to try daily posting of shots, hoping that will keep me more up-to-date.  Starting today you should be seeing a post for each day, come up (there is some backlog to get through over the next few days).

However, I do find it to be a time-consuming process to complete the work-flow of uploading photos into Aperture, processing, and then to the web.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to create a more efficient work-flow?

Aperture on MacBook Air

This past week I visited family, knowing that I needed to do some major clean up to my Aperture library I went through the painstaking process of removing previews and consolidating the projects I wanted to use and transferring a new library to my MacBook Air, which I was taking with me (I will note, when I normally travel it’s for work so I don’t get to take Aperture or my Air with me which is why this was sort of foreign to me). Needless to say that who process took a few hours.

When I finally sat down over the Thanksgiving holiday to work on some photos my Air basically ground to a halt running Aperture, appearing to be a CPU limitation. I knew from past experiences that my MacBook Air doesn’t run aperture very well, I’ve primarily used it to dump and do triage on photos in a single project as I’m traveling. Running a library that was 40gb+ didn’t happen. Each action took forever. Needless to say I am a little disappointed I spent the time getting everything running to only fail, but I guess I should have seen this coming.

No, I’m not going to run out and buy a MacBook Pro, as much as I would like too, but now I need to figure out someway to work on photos while I am traveling with my Air. Any suggestions?

The peace & quiet of air travel

I don’t travel as much as some, but I do travel more than many people. For as much trouble as it is, I really do find that my time on a plane, disconnected from the world, is quite productive. Even with just my iPhone I’m able to get through masses of email. Google reader and the like. Only problem are the occasional typos which increase with each hour in the air (going on 5 now). However, it does sucks when you touch down and sync up. Oh well. Well it’s not so bad at 1am.

Daylight savings

As much as I like getting an extra hour of sleep on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago I’m really over daylight savings time now. Sure it’s all nice and good to have a little extra daylight in the morning but its incredibly annoying leaving the office in the late afternoon for a coffee break and having it nearly dark out, or leaving the office at normal time and having it pitch black out. It would much nicer to have that extra hour of daylight in the evening in my opinion. End of my rant.

Project 365 – Week 6&7

So apparently I’ve been a bit too busy to take photos lately for my 365 project, partly due to being out of town and unable to take photos (BTW, I need a smaller camera to travel with). So over the last two weeks I’ve been only able to get a few shots off, and they are up on Flickr. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back to taking photos daily. Photos below the jump.

Project 365 – Week 5

So this past week, much as the week before, was a bit to hectic at work to really get around to taking any shots for my 365 project. Needless to say I was only able to take one shot this week, sorry. I’m hoping to change that this week.

JMBlogUpdate Twitter account update

Recently I started adding services that are being pushed to my @JMBlogUpdate twitter account. Historically this account has been primarily used to push new posts from this blog.  Recently I’ve added my Google Reader Share feed (via reader2twitter) and Delicious feed (via twitterfeed). I’ll see how permanent this is, but for now I figure it’s a good way to distribute the articles/ websites that I think others may enjoy but don’t necessarily rise to the level to distribute on my primary twitter feed. If you’re interested in checking out this feed follow @JMBlogUpdate or follow the RSS feed and let me know if you think pushing these feeds is worthwhile.