My Mom had her 86th Birthday this past Thursday and we had the family gathering today at my sisters house to officially celebrate. Mom’s doing fairly well even with a number of health problems. Her mind is still very clear. My father passed away 17 years ago from cancer and it’s been hard on Mom … Read More
It’s been a nice weekend spent mostly working around the house and in the yard. We had the kitchen repainted last week and I spent part of Saturday swapping out the overhead light fixture and ceiling fan for new units so that they would match the new room decor. Now only the floors and the … Read More
Five links for fun and general interest.
The Icon-Story
Ever wonder what your Windows Desktop Icons do when your away?
Sam Bassett Media
Interesting Photography and Films
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Battle Lines: Letters From America’s Wars – Original Readings – Audio
Toyota – Human Touch Ad
A very interesting and well … Read More
Following a week of waiting for Apple to arrange for the pickup of a malfunctioning iMac G5, a Dublin says he has decided to prove that he can walk to Cork — the location of the nearest Apple repair center — faster than Apple can arrange for the pickup of his broken Mac. “I think
It appears that Apples audit found for the most part that the manufacturing facility in China where iPods are assembled was in compliance with Apples Supplier Code of Conduct. From their report:
We found the supplier to be in compliance in the majority of the areas audited. However, we did find violations to our Code
There’s an informative read on Arstechnic by John Siracusa concerning Apples’ Leopard Time Machine back-up application and the future of the Apple HFS+ file system.
So, to sum up, Time Machine is an automated backup system with an inspired lack of user-visible moving parts, but a fair to middling underlying implementation. It’s not based on
Alistair Davidson of Instant Badger writes that he’s been having some problems dealing with the format that Apple Mail uses:
This post is about a problem I’ve been having with a mail generated by Apple Mail, that has been driving me nuts. It’s not the first issue I’ve had with Apple Mail and it’s funky
Have you noticed how after you hit that publish button in whatever application you’re using to write and publish your blog post that your editing skills suddenly become much more acute. Even after having reread and edited multiple times, once that button’s pressed typos, miss-spellings, punctuation errors, missing words, and double words, all suddenly leap … Read More
I was reading an interesting piece the other day on how ones imagination is the most powerful tool that people possess. It allows you to imagine things that could be and rehearse the future you want. This article went on to say that when you use your imagination to visualize and project yourself into a … Read More
Wow…for the last couple of days I’ve been entertained by reading various posts concerning the A-List Gatekeeper theory. You know that’s the one where there’s a conspiracy by the A-list bloggers to keep all the other less read but more worthy bloggers trodden down in the trenches. Heady stuff!
I’ve been blogging for less then … Read More
I find myself in a reflective mood this week and it’s made it difficult to focus on subjects I would normally write about. Yesterday I heard that a friend I’d worked with a few years ago passed away this Sunday from what was probably a heart attack. I hadn’t seen him in a number of … Read More
I did a little upgrading and enhancement on “Meandering Passage” last night. I upgraded WordPress to version 2.0.4 and added two new comment enhancing plug-ins.
Akismet stops the vast majority of the spam comments that hit my site but as of late I’ve noticed a couple of those strange random text group comments making it … Read More
A friend gave me an Ubuntu Live CD last Friday, knowing I’d expressed an interest in trying it out on my wives older PC. So this weekend I connected her PC and booted from this CD. All appeared to be going well until I realized that the keyboard and mouse were not being recognized. Ten … Read More
In a recent Lifehacker post there was a link to all the OS X shortcuts as collected by Apple consulting company RixStep.¬ I’m listing that link here as a more direct route for those who may be interested.
RixStep OS X keyboard shortcut repository
The information at the RixStep link will be maintained and updated … Read More
Five links for fun and general interest:
Video’s and animations seem to be the theme this week.
Mass Digital MER Animation
A very neat digital animation of the Mars rover beginning from launch.
Burning Safari Video
A cute animated video of new visitors to the planet of the ape.
When girlfriends go biszerk
This guy … Read More