My friend, Adam Nash (VP of Search and Platform Products at LinkedIn), was part of a one-hour panel discussion at Google I/O about the social web.

I haven’t seen Adam in a few months, and as a result, I’m starting to get him confused with someone else I see on TV sometimes.

Come visit me, Adam! :)

I’ll be speaking at Dolphin Scuba Center in Sacramento, California, this coming Friday, July 16, 2010. The evening seminar starts at 7pm and costs $10, with benefits going to Project Aware. I’m not sure yet what I’ll be showing, but there will be pretty pictures to see. :) There is limited space, so you should probably sign up now if you’re interested.

On Saturday, July 17, 2010, I will be giving a photography workshop at Dolphin Scuba Center. Please contact the shop for more details.

It feels so good to give up.

I am an obsessive email archiver, which is why I get so upset when people send multi-megabyte attachments over email (I much prefer it when people use services like YouSendIt or DropBox).

There are a few reasons large attachments have made things painful recently:

1. More and more people are sending >10MB attachments
2. The size of my local email archive is getting to be quite large
3. I reached my ~7GB storage limit on Gmail

I periodically mitigate the problem of a large local archive on my Mac by selecting offending messages (sorted by size) and using the menu option Message->Remove Attachments in Mail.app. I’ve mapped a keyboard shortcut to this menu option because I use it so frequently. (read more »)

One of my favorite Mac OS X utilities is Fresh, by Ironic Software. It’s a $9 program that tracks all of the most recently touched files on your Mac and allows them to be accessed via a keyboard shortcut. It also features a “Cooler” area where you can drag frequently-accessed files and folders. I put files and project folders I’m currently working on in the Cooler and remove them when projects end.

Recently, Fresh would occasionally start using a lot of CPU, requiring me to quit and restart the app to fix the problem. I wrote to Ironic support and received an immediate reply from Tom with a link to a patched dev version. 2 weeks later (today), Tom followed up with an official link to the new version. Kudos to Ironic for their excellent support!

If you’re into maximizing productivity on your Mac, I highly recommend [Fresh]. It’s free to try.

Interviewed for “In the Company of Sperm Whales” (DiveFilm HD)

Mary Lynn Price and Emiko Omori came over a couple of weeks ago to interview me about my sperm whale trip to Dominica. DiveFilm HD’s latest podcast (#55) features the interview edited together with video footage and photos from the trip. Special thanks to Mary Lynn for making it so easy for me!

Apple objects to us using the word “sperm” in our podcast title

Please enjoy this PG-rated podcast. :)