by cg on September 24, 2007
Annie Liebovitz‘ very fine book ‘A Photographer’s Life’ arrived last Christmas. At the time, recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, I was very interested in her documentation of partner Susan Sontag’s death, hoping it would help me with the task of dealing with and visualizing my own shortened mortality horizon. I thumbed through the Sontag pages, then put the book up on a shelf as I set off to go back to work at Adobe with high hopes and spirit and feeling an oncological kinship with Elizabeth Edwards and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter.
Now, 3 weeks out of Adobe, I’m trying to bring a richness back into my new life. One of the many things I’m trying to do is bring fine photography and writing into my daily routine. So I’ve put Annie’s book on my bedstand, and now, morning and night I spend a few minutes flipping pages and enjoying her wonderful images, no matter how busy the day will be or has been. I will go forth on the N Judah Wednesday, much inspired and hoping to pick up that project where it left off last winter…
by cg on September 24, 2007
Friend, former classmate Greg Bird sent me an email listing some of the Green events in the Bay Area. There are many…! I would have loved to have gone to the Green Building Conference last week, but had a bunch of UCSF and other medical appointments that conflicted. CNET has some pictures from the show floor.
This year’s Solar Conference starts today in Long Beach. It’s sold out, and is expected to draw some 10,000 people this year, a big increase from last year’s event in San Jose. Friend Peter Bostock (who also happens to be the VP of Solaicx – a well-funded startup that produces high volume, continuous production, superior-performance, single crystal silicon ingots that dramatically reduce manufacturing costs) is flying down tomorrow early, and I was really tempted to join him – he’s a great guy and his company is #4 on AlwaysOn’s list of Top 100 Green companies.
But this week is full, too, including starting a new, more frequent workout regime at UCSF in San Francisco. So I think I’ll settle for the webcast of the Solar Conference keynote speeches. I can’t believe how full my ‘new life’ has become: it’s hard to get in the things I want to do…
by cg on September 24, 2007
We have tried repeatedly to reinstall iLife ‘06 (actually, just iPhoto ‘06) in an attempt to get back our 30,000 missing pix (and dozens, if not hundreds of Folders). Turns out there’s no uninstall in iLife ‘08 – or if there is it’s undocumented.
Going to the Apple Support forums this morning, and clicking iLife ‘08, I get:
Error
An error in the system has occurred. Please contact the system administrator if the problem persists.
So, no pictures, no folders, no luck re-building database – even with manual rebuild (which loses rotates, folders, keywords et al.), no support: what’s a guy to do? I think I’ll ask for a refund and try to move everything to MS Expression Media, aka ImageView…