Ok, so I know I said I’m going to move all my stuff from www.drewjoh.com over to www.yipdrew.com; but… I think I take it back.
I got the domain www.drewjohnston.ws and I’m trying to decide now between that or www.drewjoh.com. The site will be for work I do that I release publicly and a blog discussing work related stuff. So it’s not quite personal, but it’s not quite work either. I imagine www.drewandpam.com to be personal, and www.yipmedia.com to be work. Any thoughts? I just need to choose and be done with it, but I can get so picky about details that it’s insane.
I’m using some new Mac blogging software now. There’s nothing out there that’s as easy or simple as Windows Live Writer (or as free)… so I’m using ecto instead… and I paid for it, blah. But here’s a cool shot of Amber from my iPhone!
So I’m doing some major cleaning and throwing away. I’m finding ALL the notes I’ve kept from girls that have written me in high school. I can’t believe I still have them. I’m throwing them away, but not without reading some! It’s crazy how stupid we were in high school, lol. Throwing around “I love you” like we knew what we were talking about. I feel like going back and telling my old self that you have no idea what you’re talking about. But I remember thinking I knew it all.
So even now, I think I know what I’m talking about. But in 10 more years I’ll probably look back and think “you were so stupid”.
It’s crazy. There’s so much I don’t remember. So many things I just have a vague concept of what happened… and who knows how distorted that memory is? I wish I could see everything for how it is and nothing else. But everything everyone experiences is distorted by their perceptions. Thus is life.
Crazy how things pan out!
So, I was browsing around for a background for my iPhone, and I found one:
Lately Pam and I had to drive downtown, and the quick and easy web browsing and maps integration saved us several times. (My car bettery was replaced recently, and I have to find the key code to activate the Nav system in my car… which I haven’t got around to yet) I kept saying something along the lines of “isn’t that amazing how useful this is”… but she wasn’t too impressed, lol. I’ve been taking pictures with the iPhone too, and how easy it is to browse, flip through and zoom in to images is just how it should be. Why can’t everything be that simple?
Google Maps on the iPhone is amazing. You’re never more than 3 taps and typing a word away from finding something near you and having their name, address and phone number right there. Then one more tap to call or get directions. Again, shouldn’t everything be this easy?
I’m also loving the fast weather and e-mail access. And I LOVE the calendar access. I’m now syncing my iPhone calendar with iCal on my Mac, and that is syncing with my Google Calendar. Then I have a calendar on Google that’s syncing with my Dad’s Google calendar, which will sync with his Outlook. You can make a change on any computer or calendar, and it will sync to everything else. I love it! I remember wishing years ago that everything would just “be there”… looks like lots of other people have the same idea (and are actually doing things about it). I’ve never been one to be organized and scheduled (but I desperately need to be), but all the Calendar syncing is making it easy and fun, and with reminders that will go off on my phone and PC, I won’t miss things (or forget).
It’s all coming together.
So I just canceled my Blockbuster Online subscription yesterday and signed up for Netflix. I’ve about had it with Blockbuster: with their recent price increase, their store trade-in decrease (from unlimited to 5), the many scratched discs I’ve received, and 2 wrong DVDs… just about anything else sounds better. I feel like I really tried to give them a chance too. I was rooting for them. I like their website a little better; and it was nice going to the store and getting whatever I wanted as the moment struck for free. But now I’m paying half the price, for 1-DVD at a time and unlimited, on-demand movie viewing over the internet.
I’m moving my main PC into the living room (where it will be used for video editing, pictures, video watching and gaming) and just having my Mac in my office. What will I do with the 2 - 22″ widescreens I bought for my PC?? So my goal now is to have the Media Center running in the living room now, so we can record shows, watch videos, sort and view pictures, edit videos… and of course: watch our Netflix downloads. We’ll see how it goes!
Rumor has it that Google will release Picasa for the Mac later this year. Woohoo!
My main beef about iPhoto to Picasa is that iPhoto does not store any data you put in (title, caption, etc) in the actual file. It goes into their own database. Move the pictures, all your work is out the window. Booo.
With Picasa, it’s stated plainly that captions are stored in the JPG file using the IPTC standard, and then hidden a little deeper (search the page for “IPTC standard”) you find that tags are also stored with the file.
Pictures can move, and all the hard work you put into them can too.
