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Last Night Changed It All
Esther Williams
Esther Williams - Last Night Changed It All
OneThing: Jamie Beck: my one thing is... →
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Jamie Beck: my one thing is…Jamie is a Photographer living in New York City
Q: There’s a saying, to pick one thing and do it well. What’s your one thing?
Jamie: Photography. I knew it was my one thing from the first time I took a photograph. I’ll strive to do it well my whole life and I’ll always be working on my craft trying to make it better or greater or fresher or more challenging… you get my drift. Photography for me is a part of my being, like a creepy 3rd eye or something. Not that I have a 3rd eye, who said I had a 3rd eye?! So I may show up at shoots with red lipstick and a charm bracelet on but I’m a photographer and I strive to be great, all the time, every day, and besides, who says all successful women photographers have to be morphed into men? I don’t want to shoot babies, I just want shoot what my mind likes.
Q: What do you like about what you do?
Jamie: The limits are only what my mind creates.
Q: Anything else you’d like to add?
Jamie: I don’t really feel like I’ve lived a day successfully or actually experienced it unless I take a photograph. Even when I’m laying in bed at night I picture images I’ve yet to take. With that said, I’m not going anywhere so you might as well get with the program and let me shoot for you.
Reformat your SSD
My work computer is a 17” Macbook Pro which I’ve had for about a year. I chose the SSD option for the internal hard drive without knowing exactly what, if any, performance boosts would be. The computer was very fast and snappy at first, but after 6 months I noticed some serious slow down — most often this meant apps would stop at random moments and processes which were disk heavy were generally sluggish. I’d heard that SSD drives benefit from a regular reformat so finally this past weekend I backed up using this process:
- Backed up using Time Machine
- Booted from the Snow Leopard install disk
- Reformatted using the “Zero all data” option
- Restored from Time Machine
This took only 3-4 hours, and the speed effects were noticeable immediately. My apps load after 1-2 dock bounces, and the overall snappiness of the system is noticeably better.
So if you have an SSD in your laptop take the time to back up with Time Machine and reformat every few months.
