Listening to Tammy deal with insurance crap, COBRA, etc. Sounds like complete nightmare.
Mac Pro video card/freezing issues have started again. Time to pull out the X1900 and replace it. Fans are already jacked trying to cool it.
Just called AT&T and got my options for iPhone usage while in London. Ugly.
Started reading Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling.
iTunes 7.7.1 seems to see a lot more AppStore updates than 7.7 did 5 minutes ago. Hmm…
Seems like a lot of “spam friends” coming on Twitter lately. It needs to be easier to identify these and block them.
Your friends list on Twitter.com should show basic stats of friends and provide 1-click actions. That would help a lot.
Clearly Twitter is going to need to deal with a recent sharp increase in spam activity.
I love logging onto WiFi at Caribou Coffee as foo@bar.com. Always makes me smile.
Lightroom 2 in 64-bit Glory
Lightroom 2 was just released today and I immediately got the upgrade. After waiting a bit to get the serial number for the new version I installed it and upgraded my catalogs. Everything worked perfectly.
One of the first things I wanted to test was using Lightroom in 64-bit mode. My Mac Pro has 7 gig of RAM so enabling 64-bit would give Lightroom some room to stretch. Here is the 32-bit snapshot of memory usage after some extensive usage.
and here we are after unchecking the “32-bit” checkbox on Lightroom 2.app.
Note that at launch Lightroom loaded into it’s typical footprint. After I scanned through a few thousand photos though it had allocated itself out into some nice 64-bit space. And as a user, it’s very noticeable. I was able to flip around in my catalog so much faster than in 32-bit mode and I noticed that I seemed to be thrashing the hard disk a lot less.
Lightroom is the first application that I’ll use on a regular basis where 64-bit makes a big difference. Sure server applications benefit from 64-bit, but seeing Lightroom perform so much faster in 64-bit makes me really hope that most of my applications are there soon.
Congrats to the Lightroom team for getting this milestone in!
It’s odd that sometimes Finder initiated restart will hang forever, but /sbin/restart will work from a terminal launched via Quicksilver.
Just test drove a Toyota Prius. Pretty nice. A bit boring though.