Which is a bit of a lie..
I’ve been planning for the last few months, a sprawling 9 month trip around the world with my girlfriend. So far our travel itinerary looks a bit like this;
USA
Guatemala
Mexico
Cuba
Belize
Panama
Colombia
Peru
Argentina
Germany
Turkey
Uganda
Mali
Morocco
It’s going to be huge. We’re not leaving for a few more months, so you’ll be hearing more about it as it draws near. I can’t wait!
From the retronaut archives, here are some tips for the single girl (right out of the 1930′s):
I hope you’re all taking notes..
I repeatedly struggle with the seemingly trivial task of managing and organising a single master set of photos. I have photos from the last decade scattered all around different parts of my digital world. The online sites only seem to add another layer of complexity to the mix. Am I alone in this? Duplicates keep popping up, and I’m going to lay the blame on two main things;
1. A casual relationship between photo programs (swapping between iPhoto, lightroom and aperture), and
2. Paranoia over losing images.
Both of these have given me countless headaches! How can I corral these into a manageable bunch? It seems like I spend 2 days every 6 months pruning the duplicates, yet the cycle continues.
Is this common, or are you all that much better than I am at doing this?
Clearly not as much as Mike Doyle does! His blog has lots of behind the scenes images, well worth a look. (via TFIB)
A bit of a small train of thought piece coming up. This was inspired by these two posts by Marco Arment.
I’m glad I follow people like Marco, Michael & Jason. They’re writers who take a longer view on life, industry and on this whole blogging thing, and in many ways have been doing this for a long time.
Certainly longer than I have. It really helps, seeing others who’re facing conceptual struggles I can relate to, and taking a stance on what they’re all about. Even if they don’t know specifically what they’re producing (or perhaps that’s actually the point, that what’s being made can’t be labelled so easily), they’re prepared to stick to the core goals of the site. The blog is the internet representation of their interests, so it shouldn’t be one dimensional. It shouldn’t fit into a sound-bite. It shouldn’t make things easy for google to stick ads into. Life doesn’t fit into small boxes, and their writing reflects this.
I don’t know what the specific goals are for this place. In previous versions it’s been a wiki, a blog, a folio site and back to a blog. I didn’t feel that comfortable having a polished, finished piece of work on display. I’m not a web designer, nor do I code in html. I see this place as a spot to pen my thoughts without fear nor favour. It doesn’t work to any agenda other than to put it all down as it happens. I hope to have the level of reflection, thought and foresight found elsewhere, but I also don’t want to hold myself to a standard I will need to grow.
One of my goals is to keep at it, though. I do see the importance of persevering. I’ve had too many half-hearted goes at making this thing sing. This time feels good, as I’m not doing it for anyone else.
Daring Fireball, quoting Amit Runchal on android activations;
The last time Rubin talked about Android activations was back in June, when he said that 500,000 devices were being activated daily, and that they were seeing week-to-week activation growth of 4.4%. There’ve been about 25 weeks between the two tweets. Some quick math reveals that week-to-week growth since June hasn’t been anywhere close to the 4.4% Rubin was seeing. It’s now closer to 1.4%.
Probably a bit of a stretch to say that Horace’s graph seems to be tapering off..
