Architecture by Hand (an OmniGraffle Stencil) Create whiteboard-style information technology workflows and diagrams with this custom stencil for OmniGraffle. Includes iconography for networks, storage, devices, applications and document types. $4.99 w/ free updates
Home

I'm Jonathan Brown. I like to write about code, culture and crap. Sometimes I know what I'm talking about, but usually I do not.

Day at Typhoon Lagoon

Alex and I went to Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon for the day. I thought it was an excellent opportunity to put iPhone 4′s new cameras, video quality and iMovie for iPhone through its paces. The entire movie was produced on the iPhone 4. Not bad…for a ::cough::phone::cough.

No antennas were harmed during the production of this movie.

Posted from my YouTube account.

  • Share/Bookmark

Recently…

I’ve been meaning to jot down my thoughts on Apple’s continued assault on technical specifications.  There was a time where people really cared about *HZ (Hz, MHz, GHz, whatever) and RAM and cache size and blah blah.  Because computers used to suck.  Now they don’t.  Apple knows that we’re reaching a point of computing where [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Another House Photo

This image is tone-mapped from three bracketed exposure shots. Posted from my Flickr account.

  • Share/Bookmark

My Abode

After spending the afternoon working on the yard, I decided this was probably the best it was ever going to look with me doing the landscaping. Posted from my Flickr account.

  • Share/Bookmark

This post started life as a voice memo on April 13th, a few days after Apple announced the iPhone 4 OS and unleashed the much bandied about section 3.3.1 (“no 3rd party development platforms”) rule in the new iPhone SDK Agreement.  Since Steve Jobs himself decided to weigh in on this point, I figured it [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

iPad Thoughts

Yes, I got an iPad. No, I didn’t sleep out in front of an Apple store. No, I didn’t wait in line for hours. No, I didn’t plan on buying the wi-fi version on release weekend, but the videos and early reviews were too hard to ignore for someone like me. Everyone has chimed in [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Alexandra’s submission for the Webkinz Video Star contest.  She needs views, people, so please help her out and pass along to friends. Posted from my YouTube account.

  • Share/Bookmark

Each year on Christmas day my family gathers in the recording studio to record a Beatles song with intentions to reproduce the instrumentation, sounds and performances as closely as our talents allow.  This year, we’re releasing our first album recorded between December 1998 and December 2008.  We called it Crappy Road.  Check out The Bartles!

  • Share/Bookmark