I got a vintage 1974 Knoll Florence oval table for my new desk. Here’s how it came out:

Some amazing stuff in here!

zomg: Steve Jobs has a pug.

[From Your Privacy Is An Illusion: Steve Jobs isn’t in Apple’s Facebook network — but his wife is]

Well, actually it was yesterday. My computer at work (a Quad Core Mac Pro, 4 500mb drives) was acting super flaky, and I fully intended to take it offline and run disk warrior on it. Yesterday I had to rearrange my office because I got a new desk (a vintage Eames conference table!) and when I brought the computer back up, it’d start launching all my login items, then die.

When I rebooted from a startup disk, Disk Utility couldn’t fix the disk and crapped out. Then Disk Warrior mounting from another machine through Target Disk Mode would also crash.

Uh-oh.

As a side note: I keep one of the 500 meg drives in my machine completely empty and unmounted for the specific purpose that if the machine dies, or I need to test a new OS, I have a spare boot disk.

I had a Time Machine backup from 5AM that day, so I rebooted from Leopard install, selected “Restore from Time Machine Backup” and crossed my fingers. It allowed me to specify the volume to restore to, and which snapshot to use.

Queue 5 hours of waiting and then….

System rebooted, and it was like walking into a … well, Time Machine. The machine was restored EXACTLY like it was at 5AM that day. The e-mail, everything was the same. Once it caught up, all was back to normal. I wiped the former master drive (it was a node corruption, which is hard to fix without a format) and everything was great.

Lesson: invest in a Time Machine disk that is equal to double the size of your master drive.

THis is awesome news. Dan is a great guy, great writer and has a good BS detector. Something CNET needs (and most others need to follow).

[From CNET Changes Quarterbacks: Dan Farber Takes Over As Editor In Chief]

This is an amazing site created with Dig For Fire, Vincent Moon and Damien and the R.E.M. camp. It really is a 21st century music video. 12 videos, all HD downlodable for remixing and editing, with some being acoustic live takes and some the studio recording.

If you play all at once, it really makes for a chaotic music experience, especially if you have enough bandwidth to do them in sequence and they are in sync

[From SUPERNATURALSUPERSERIOUS.COM]

I don’t know if anyone noticed, but the Aperture update is the first time (I think) where Apple has had a “purchase the serial number to activate a trial” option. Am I wrong?