Monthly Archives: January 2006

Quick trip to Northern Virginia

2006-01-17 – 12:30

I’m in DC today, waiting a couple of hours for my meetings to start. Once they get going, it looks like they won’t slow down until late in the evening! I’ve run through my slides and my demo a number of times now, and I’ve got them down pretty well. I’m not very sure how […]

By frank | Posted in Travel | Comments (0)

Serendipity is under new ownership

2006-01-16 – 09:47

A while back, I complained about this place not opening until 10:00 AM on the weekdays, effectively killing any chance of establishing a commuter clientele.
Late last week, thanks to the overly-flashy digital sign for the strip mall on Washington Road, Scott, who thinks my blog should have a category just for coffee, learned they’re […]

By frank | Posted in Food and Drink | Comments (2)

Waiting for the skinny on the Intel Macs

2006-01-15 – 08:07

Apple announced their first set of machines based around an Intel processor, the MacBook Pro and the iMac. They’re claiming both machines significantly outperform the ones they’re replacing. Very easy to believe for the Powerbooks, since those were running 6 year old processors at three year old clockspeeds. The iMac isn’t so clear. Since they’ve […]

By frank | Posted in Gadget, Geek | Comments (3)

Lightroom, Core Image, Quartz Composer, and Channel Mixing

2006-01-10 – 21:53

Lightroom has a greyscale mixer, similar to the channel mixer in Photoshop and the GIMP, and adds HSL Tuning with a similar user interface, but instead of the RGB values I’m used to, it also provides access to CMY. I’ve had a lot of fun converting some images from my archive in to black and […]

By frank | Posted in Geek, Photography | Comments (1)

Georgia gets Share the Road license plates

2006-01-10 – 06:51

Today I’m headed over to my County Tag Office to apply for Share the Road license plates for both our cars. The state needs to get 1000 registrations for these plates before they can be produced. It’s been open for a week now and they have 112. I hope it’s just the bureaucracy is slow […]

By frank | Posted in Cycling | Comments (0)