I'm skeptical but hopeful this is true:

Rumored March launch of high-res 'iPad 3' portrayed as 'completely accurate' dlvr.it/13tjkc

— AppleInsider (@appleinsider) January 6, 2012

A few days ago I came across an unpublished blog post from January 1, 2011 saying how I thought 2011 was going to be a good year. And it should have been, because in 2010 my mom spent a good part of the year in nursing homes recuperating from breaking her arm and my dad had been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive skin cancer (metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma). My mom recovered and was back home by July, and my dad had surgery to remove the cancer from his cheek and a screening in August supposedly showed he was cancer free. Things were looking up for my parents.

Barely three weeks after I wrote that blog post my dad died, victim of the same cancer he had been diagnosed with that stealthily invaded his liver and spine after the surgery. By the time this was discovered it was too late, and my dad passed away on January 21.

So much for 2011 being a good year. Because of this I decided I'm not making any resolutions this year and will take a “take it as it is” approach for 2012. Besides, who really follows their New Year's Resolutions anyway? Here's to hoping 2012 will be a better year.

http://www.cultofmac.com/how-the-ipad-is-really-eating-the-pc/90503

I've always been interested in time-lapse video, so yesterday I set up my Mac to record an entire days' worth of video. The clip shows from 6am to 7pm and is compressed down to a little over 2 minutes. I used the iSight camera on my MacBook Pro to record the images and used Gawker (a Mac OS X open source image capture application) to capture the images. I captured an image every 12 seconds, and the video is 30 frames per second, so each second of the video shows 6 minutes of real time.

The clip itself isn't very interesting other than watching the clouds go by. But there are interesting parts of the clip, especially if you go frame by frame. Most of the items below only show up in one or two frames, so they're literally a blink of an eye. Some of the highlights include:

• Commuter traffic leaving in the morning and coming back in the evening (mostly in the dark)
• The trees and the car cover across the street flapping in the wind
• The amount of snow that melted on the roofs of the houses across the street from the beginning of the clip to the end
• Lots of people walking up and down the street
• My daughter leaving for school (her car is parked in the very bottom left and leaves at 0:26) and returning (1:50)
• School buses (0:21, 0:31, 0:38, 1:26, 1:39), the trash truck (0:24), the UPS truck (0:34), the mail truck (1:17) and the FedEx truck (1:36) going by
• Kids walking to school who threw snow in the street, then watching the snow slowly melt and disappear (starting at 0:43)
• A random box truck that stopped at my neighbor's house and picked something up (0:48)
• A service truck that parked in the same neighbor's driveway (arrives at 1:17 and leaves at 1:33)
• The deepening shadows nearing sundown (starting at 1:34)
• My neighbor shoveling snow at the end of their driveway (1:40)

The interval I used was good for recording an entire day of activity but was too fast to give any detail. I plan to try other clips with various intervals.