I was doing some shopping tonight and noticed that Amazon has changed their shopping cart icon to a sleigh:
It’s a subtle change, but beauty is in the details.
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Dana and I visited the Smithsonian American Art Museum today to see their new Exhibit Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities.
It is the first exhibit to feature the works of both artists. There are several instances where the two artists’ interpretations of the same scene are presented. As O’Keeffe wrote in the lines accompanying one of her paintings: “I cannot show you what the flower looks like…only how I see the flower” (paraphrased). It’s Adams and O’Keeffe’s unique eye that brings us the breathtaking interpretations of the American Southwest that’s portrayed in this exhibit.
The installation is at the Museum through January 4, 2009. Be there, or be square.
I understand application designers’ desire to make passwords secure, but what the heck is up with this requirement:
Contain no more than two identical consecutive characters in any position from the previous password.
That is seriously crazy.
Once I finally met the new requirements and was able to login, I was greeted with this welcome message:
Coming Soon: Exciting New Password Security Feature
Thanks for making my day, new password security feature.
I had the incredible pleasure last Wednesday, September 17, of seeing David Byrne, the former lead singer of the Talking Heads. He performed at The Lyric Opera House in Baltimore. I had hesitated on going, and after listening to the new album he released with Brian Eno, I decided I had to go. It was euphoric. This concert will absolutely go down as one of the best concerts I have ever seen. Here is a sample of “Strange Overtones” from the new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today:
Click below for the setlist from the show.
I want more, more, mmmooorrre…
It’s rare that I complain on message boards, but the removal of a couple key preferences in iTunes 8.0 frustrated me enough to head to the Apple Support Discussions Forum. I’m glad I did. A kind user pointed me in the direction of this great post at Macworld.com that explains how to reset some of the lost preferences in iTunes 8.0.
First, the preference to remove genre when using the browse is no longer in iTunes preferences. Fortunately, you can still use terminal to remove the genre column:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE
iTunes 8.0 also removed the preference to hide the arrow links next that appear next to artists, songs and albums that lead to the iTunes Store. I never buy music from the iTunes Store, because I don’t like their DRM; I prefer Amazon instead. So, to remove these links, use this command in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE
Of course, remember to killall iTunes from Terminal to make these preferences take effect.
I thought I would start a regular good deed of donating blood. It seems like an easy thing to do, and something that is much needed. Now, I see why - it turns out the list of items that preclude one from donating is quite long. This list obviously includes cancer, which includes melanoma. I can’t donate for ten years following the discovery of my melanoma. Looks like I’ll need to find another way to save the world. The good news is that they still gave me a t-shirt, soda, and Oreos.
Not that I have time to post much these days anyway, but we’re off camping this week, leaving tomorrow. Things will be even quieter here. In the meantime, here are a few pieces I hope to finish reading while we’re disconnected:
- What Bush Got Right by Fareed Zakaria for Newsweek.
- The Front-Runner’s Fall by Joshua Green for Atlantic Monthly.
I caught a nice sunset this past week. Check out the larger photo over at vassego.com, or at Flickr.
In a surprising move that bucks the recent trend of airlines charging for expected conveniences and removing services, I have to give Kudos to you, Delta, for adding wi-fi. While they are charging a little much for the service, it’s a step in the right direction. CorrectionI read the price wrong before, $9.95 for flights under 3 hours is great.
It would be great if they would add power adapters in their seats as well, although, I’m not sure if this would put too much strain on the power draw of the plane.
This weekend we decided to remove the weeds from our flower bed. While not technically weeds, the plants we removed had overrun everything and had to go. It was a lot of work and it’s been really hot out, but it looks a lot better. Here’s a gallery of the project.
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