They’re about to tear this down.
I only cut through the medical district yesterday on a whim, and while I knew this day was coming, I was shocked to see that the room in which my life — and the lives of my family members — changed forever was about to get demolished.
Part of me wanted to chain myself to the equipment, and another part of me wanted to tear what was left of the building to the ground for them.
Huh.
…speaking of Thomas Brand, this is great.
A reckless enthusiast might throw caution to the wind, install 10.8 over their existing operating system, only to complain about the rough edges later. An experienced veteran of beta software knows you can’t easily undo an operating system upgrade and prefers to preserve their current OS while dual booting into 10.8.
Depending on your Mac, dual booting between two versions of OS X can be accomplished in a number of ways.
I have it running on an SSD inside an external FireWire 800 case. It is crazy fast.
At $4.99 in the App Store, some might think its pricey, but ReaddlDocs scratches me right where I itch, so to speak.
For my day job, I have to carry (and be familiar with) hundreds of PDFs worth of building plans, schematics, cut sheets and service contracts.
Now, I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro which, while being ridiculed by some, is the perfect machine for me. However, my iPad 2 is obviously much more portable, with better battery life.
ReaddleDocs for the iPad sits on my home screen, and for good reason. Using the built-in Wi-Fi sharing function, I can add files to my iPad without dealing with iTunes. The app super fast, handling large PDFs better than any app I’ve tried. The app lets me keep the same folder structure I have on my Mac, so finding files is just as easy. It really saves me a ton of time in meetings and in the field.
And unlike GoodReader, I can look at the UI without wanting to die. I just wish Readdle would make the iPhone version so handsome. As it stands today, it’s pretty bad.
From a great post by Elizabeth Cawein, editor of my student newspaper my junior year of high school:
And then, very abruptly, I’d written: “Someone asked me today if I was passionate about journalism. I hesitated.”
I went on to push at all the big questions: is this really what I want to be doing? Is what I’ve always planned for my life and my career the right thing for me? Do I love this or not? Does that matter?
[…]
As much as I love what I’m doing now, I still wonder. All the time.
CNN:
The deaths of two Western journalists Wednesday in Syria — where at least three other journalists have been killed in covering the uprising — highlight the danger reporters face in covering conflict zones.
Marie Colvin, a longtime American foreign correspondent for London’s The Sunday Times, and prize-winning war photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed in shelling in the city of Homs, the besieged center of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Tragic.
Brian Vastag at The Washington Post:
Among the facilities available: A space shuttle launchpad, slightly used; a giant crawler for moving rockets, still servicable; two enormous mobile launch platforms; two space shuttle maintenance hangars; a 15,000-foot concrete runway, one of the world’s longest; and the blocky, 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building, with four soaring rocket assembly bays — and no waiting.
America’s spaceport turns 50 this year, and a wrenching middle-age transition is under way.
“I have a lot of facilities that we, NASA, no longer need,” said Robert Cabana, Kennedy’s director and a four-time space shuttle flier. “I don’t have the money to maintain them, I don’t have the money to tear them down. They’re just going to sit and rot.”
Such a shame.
Here’s a link to the ABC video from last night.
It’s sorta stunning to think about the company’s openness when it comes to this. I think other computer companies need to follow Apple’s lead on these issues.
