We are in the midst of a major home move out of the downtown core for various reasons.  We have hopes it will enable us to cut debt and have a lot more sanity due to bad neighbors, noise and job opportunities.
Did I mention I hate packing?

Not surprisingly, Apple quietly released a slimmer unibody aluminum design this week with a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 gig of ram (expandable to 8 gig with two SO-DIMMs), Firewire 800, GigaEthernet, 802.11n Wireless, Bluetooth, 320 or 500 GB hard drive,  NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics with …

Today at the WWDC 2010, Apple announced the 4th generation ‘iPhone 4′. (you know, the leaked/stolen one that made the blog rounds some weeks ago)
They changed the case design, giving it a glass front and back (supposedly developed to be 30 times harder than plastic), with a slim silvery edge …

I can’t believe it’s almost been a whole year.
My daughter Maia will be 1 year old in a weeks time.  She’s taken to being VERY vocal when she doesn’t get what she wants, which has been less than stellar.  It is funny though.  She’s walking several steps now and she …

I won’t deny it.  I really suck at consistent updates of late.
I’ve been rather bummed out, burned out, hitting proverbial walls, and not feeling very constructive or willing to hang around people.  A mild depression I suppose, brought on by the lack of a job at the moment.
The sun seems …

Wow.  Maia is really motoring around now.
We found her climbing storage bins like a monkey and she was accessing the shelving yanking books and throwing them around. *sigh*
So we switched the living room around to block her from the kitchen, and moved my desk to another wall.  We like the …

Presonus has been busy in the past few months gathering bug reports and user feature requests for Studio One, a multi-platform killer music workstation package for Mac and PC.
They released 1.1 in the past week due to some known issues burning your final master CDs…
At the MusikMesse show in Germany, …

Over the past few weeks I’ve been almost insane with the ambient noise level of my PC Desktop.
The machine is hand-built and has always been fairly noisy, but I attributed it to the fact it has a high end video card inside.
We have parquet wood flooring in the apartment and …

Now that Apple has released Logic 9.1 with 64-bit plugin support, we’re starting to see announcements.  Spectrasonics released word of 1.2 versions of Omnisphere and Trillian which offer native 64-bit support as well as new 32-bit Sample File Server option which allows more memory access due to existing platform limitations.
It …

Recently I was trolling the ‘net and came across this tasty info:
Pixar, makers of some of the most memorable 3D movies, has a very informative Online Library to share animation techniques.