Eugene

Editor's Blog: Anger & Angst: Eugene’s Tribute to Image Format Folly

Posted 05/15/2007 at 1:00pm | by Eugene Robinson

I was in the worst movie of 1987. It was called Leonard Part 6, it starred Bill Cosby and I’d offer that it was perhaps the worst movie ever made for $40 million dollars. But what stuck out most for me from this time was something a stunt guy had said to me when I was inquiring about the whys and wherefores of stunt work and whether there were any schools he could recommend. He looked at me soberly and said with a sad smile on his face, “only a fool goes to school for this.” And so it is, long-way around style, that after two years of actually working at Adobe (as I did) and ample opportunities to take classes to figure out photo format action, I demurred and enjoyed then, and now, doing things the old-fashioned way: through trial and error. No directions. No help guides. Call it being spoiled after living so long in the Apple Universe Intuitive, but it seems a much cooler way to learn stuff. 

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Editor's Blog: The Continuing Back Up Chronicles

Posted 05/01/2007 at 3:27pm | by Eugene Robinson

  This is epic. No, no, not my paranoia. Though that is too. I’m talking about the aftermath of the moment when I lost everything and wrote about it. While I was flooded with emails deriding my casual approach to backing up I was also inundated with emails from geeks (and I use that term lovingly) with dreams. Specifically business dreams of being able to either back up my stuff for me, correctly counting on the fact that I would never really do so myself, despite having said I would (a situation familiar to anyone I owe money to), OR dreams at having the world pay attention to their uniquely significant backup schema.

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Editor's Blog: Eugene, iPod Ear Damage & You

Posted 04/10/2007 at 6:31am | by erobinson

Will my fatherly iPod denial last much longer in the face of facts that seem to say, “your hearing is perfectly safe with us”?

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Editor's Blog: Music, Memories & Management of a Digital Nature: Eugene Mulls the EMI-DRM Deal

Posted 04/03/2007 at 12:04pm | by erobinson

A guy in a band wonders if guys in bands should be happy about the recent Apple-EMI lovefest.

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