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As someone who has had my ideas blatently ripped off. I believe that creators should be able to make money from their stuff.

If I’m going to listen to a song for more than a few days I will make every effort to BUY the song. 99¢ on iTMS isn’t going to break me. The same goes for books and even software.

I didn’t always feel this way.

Some of my friends think this is weird—paying for software—but I believe it is necessary. “Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat”.

So when an established law firm calls up my work and asks us why we won’t make copies of three or four books in their entirety, I have to wonder?

Wonder…what version of the law they have stacked up on their shelves? And is it a photocopy too? What kind of integrity they truly have? Would they help me bury a body that’s been festering in the trunk of a car for a week?

I’d bring the shovels?

Its one thing for any other person to claim ignorance to this law. But when your job is LAW and you still try to argue for someone to break it….

You may as well just be handing out guns to convicted murderers.

(it should go without saying that the views reflected here may not be the opinions of those who employ or work with me…or even any who isn’t me)

I’m a big fan of Apple Computers.

That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy other computers, but given the option, I’ll take an older Mac over most newer PCs.

Because I’ve decided on this “older can still be better” way of life, I don’t have a large HD (that means “harddrive” or “file storage”, mom) in my computer.

I do have lots of external media (1 Lacie 250 Gb external and 2 80 Gb Lacie Mobiles), but when it comes to the ‘puter, I weigh in at a cozy 30 Gb.

So when loading new software, I have to be either selective or hackish. Most software will be forced to install on your default drive.

Since I want (period), here’s the first step I take when installing new software.

1. Find the program in question (usually in your Applications folder)
2. Get info (cmd+i)
3. Flip open the Languages tab
4. Delete any language I don’t speak (currently anything other than English, at the moment)

That’s it. For most programs (especially the iLife and iWork suites) doing this can dramatically free up space.

And that can make all the difference.

Here’s the problem…

Using someone else’s design as a jumping point for your own site leads to frustration.

On the one hand, most of the code is already in place. On the other, you have to pony-whip it to do what you need.

This is born of not knowing exactly what code exists and doesn’t exist.

There are problems with this site right now. As I learn more, I will most likely just rewrite the underlying code from scratch. That way I’ll know what’s going on as problems crop up.

Bare with me for a while longer.

Every year at this time, the Cherry Blossoms bloom. You can find them on almost every street.

As I walk beneath them, I always raise my head, close my eyes, and breath in their intoxicating sent.

Beautiful.