Apple has released OS X 10.5, Oil is pushing up to new heights and Halloween blossoms at Phipps Conservatory. This week we'll be talking about video, starting off with a brief discussion of vlog's, suggesting that you check out Justine Ezarik's recent vlog about Apple's Leopard, and I've found another tech podcast...which faded last fall.
- Apple’s Leopard out; Oil at $93 bbl; Halloween upcoming;
- What is a vlog?
- Investopedia.com
Go to my iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
..Alex.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Sunday Morning Tai Chi - reverse breathing
One of my favorite technological activities is Tai Chi. I've been studying with my current teacher in Pittsburgh for about 20 years. It's interesting to see both how people change and how attitudes/styles of teaching change over that period. But more importantly, what things remain the same. The Tai Chi.
One of the more interesting aspects of Tai Chi is reverse breathing. Studying this assumes that you've studied breathing at all, and have internalized it into your practice in a big way. This is generally referred to as abdominal breathing, focusing on the abdomen as the principal breathing muscle, and on the abdomen (or, lower, the dan tien) as the target for inhales, pooling of chi. Yang Style tai chi emphasizes breathing with movements: yin movements are associated with inhales, yang movements are associated with exhales - always breathing, always moving.
In beginning to learn Wu style from Larry, my teacher, he says that breathing is less emphasized than in Yang. But, interestingly, in the warm-up exercises (which I'll list later for you), one set of four exercises emphasize reverse breathing: inhale on a yin movement (turning inward), exhale on a yang movement (turning outward). Okay, now I've confused myself. Which is the reversal? Time to admit this to my teacher later today! :-)
Some of my Tai Chi links for your perusal:
My Geocities RainForest page.
My teacher's current blog.
A nascent blog started earlier this year in prep for a related (but unstarted) podcast.
..alex.
One of the more interesting aspects of Tai Chi is reverse breathing. Studying this assumes that you've studied breathing at all, and have internalized it into your practice in a big way. This is generally referred to as abdominal breathing, focusing on the abdomen as the principal breathing muscle, and on the abdomen (or, lower, the dan tien) as the target for inhales, pooling of chi. Yang Style tai chi emphasizes breathing with movements: yin movements are associated with inhales, yang movements are associated with exhales - always breathing, always moving.
In beginning to learn Wu style from Larry, my teacher, he says that breathing is less emphasized than in Yang. But, interestingly, in the warm-up exercises (which I'll list later for you), one set of four exercises emphasize reverse breathing: inhale on a yin movement (turning inward), exhale on a yang movement (turning outward). Okay, now I've confused myself. Which is the reversal? Time to admit this to my teacher later today! :-)
Some of my Tai Chi links for your perusal:
My Geocities RainForest page.
My teacher's current blog.
A nascent blog started earlier this year in prep for a related (but unstarted) podcast.
..alex.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
how about a little Technorati?
Just posting to "stake my claim" to this blog for technorati.
Click this link, Technorati Profile, to see my Technorati profile.
One thing (of billions) I'm missing from my portfolio of new media skills are all the technorati & digg style link sites. I'll be working to correct that. ;-)
..alex.
Click this link, Technorati Profile, to see my Technorati profile.
One thing (of billions) I'm missing from my portfolio of new media skills are all the technorati & digg style link sites. I'll be working to correct that. ;-)
..alex.
Minute Tech Submitted to iTunes this a.m...
FYI: Minute Tech has been posted to the iTunes site catalogue this morning. Let's see how that boosts stats in Google Analytics. :-)
Minute Tech 015: What is a Help Menu?
Where have all the podcasts gone?
No, seriously, there are some excellent podcasts out there, some of which I listen to and some of which I hear about newly each week, variously from Twitter posts, other podcasts or the blog/websites related to those podcasts. Today, I talk about two extant podcasts, MacCast and This Week in Media, but also lament the potential fade of VentureCast, an excellent random walk down Sandhill Road.
The outline for this Sat/Sun podcast:
- GIMP 2.4 loosed on the world;
- What is a Help menu?
- MacCast; TWiM’s Ninja; VentureCast?
Go to my iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
..alex.
No, seriously, there are some excellent podcasts out there, some of which I listen to and some of which I hear about newly each week, variously from Twitter posts, other podcasts or the blog/websites related to those podcasts. Today, I talk about two extant podcasts, MacCast and This Week in Media, but also lament the potential fade of VentureCast, an excellent random walk down Sandhill Road.
The outline for this Sat/Sun podcast:
- GIMP 2.4 loosed on the world;
- What is a Help menu?
- MacCast; TWiM’s Ninja; VentureCast?
Go to my iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
..alex.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Learning Accelerates - addendum 1
Now that I think about, now that I'm sitting at work at my "Windows" PC, using "IE", I wonder how much of my GA stats are due to my PC at work, in addition to my Mac at home???
On the way in to work today, I visualized a good way to avoid adding to the stats inadvertantly -- only interact from behind the scenes: copy URLs from links in the Blogger edit utility, never from the actual page. Perhaps this'll not impact the GA stats as they accumulate day-in & day-out. I'll have to revisit stats in a few days to see how they are adjusting, if at all, to this theory.
..Alex.
On the way in to work today, I visualized a good way to avoid adding to the stats inadvertantly -- only interact from behind the scenes: copy URLs from links in the Blogger edit utility, never from the actual page. Perhaps this'll not impact the GA stats as they accumulate day-in & day-out. I'll have to revisit stats in a few days to see how they are adjusting, if at all, to this theory.
..Alex.
Minute Tech 014: What is an Excel formula?
A slighly more full podcast this morning, scrunched (that's a technical term) into about 8 min 50 sec.
- Podcamp Boston this weekend;
-- the podcamp that started it all!
- Apple Leopard today at 6 pm;
-- Apples newest OS, coming to the masses and the servers, finally.
- What is an Excel Formula?
-- we dissect why to & how to create an Excel formula.
- Infinite Mind on NPR;
- Jennsbl’s blog.
Go to my iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
..alex.
- Podcamp Boston this weekend;
-- the podcamp that started it all!
- Apple Leopard today at 6 pm;
-- Apples newest OS, coming to the masses and the servers, finally.
- What is an Excel Formula?
-- we dissect why to & how to create an Excel formula.
- Infinite Mind on NPR;
- Jennsbl’s blog.
Go to my iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
..alex.
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