I watched the announcements and read many of the reports this past week from Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) and while it wasn’t everything I was hoping for prior to the conference, I thought it was very good over-all. I’d give it an 8 out of 10.
There were two announcements that stood out … Read More
When I replaced my wives Windows PC with a Mac Mini I was left with a spare but older PC.¬ After reading many of Richard Querin’s interesting posts at Renaissance Man concerning his use of Ubuntu, I’ve decided to install Ubuntu on this PC as a test bed.¬ I might even have an Ubuntu workstation … Read More
My wife and I were discussing last night and this morning the current heightened level of security screening taking place at the airports due to the recently foiled terrorist plots. She made some good points about how totally useless and wasteful much of this process is. As an example, she recently observed airport security pat … Read More
If you’ve read my previous post you know I recently bought an Apple Mac Mini for my wife to replace her older Windows PC. The Mini came with 512mb of memory which was enough for most things but her work habits are to have a number of applications open and then decide to play a … Read More
What with the foiled terror plot involving the airlines today and September rapidly approaching you might be thinking of what happened on that faithful day, 9/11. You might also be thinking about going to see Oliver Stone’s new movie “World Trade Center.” Expectations are that this movie will be popular and very successful. For a … Read More
This most recent foiled airline bombing plot and the reactions and measures taken are making the already unattractive proposal of commercial airline travel even worst. Seth Godin posted that in his opinion this may mark a tipping point for the enormous amount of business travel done by commercial air.
When you need an additional 90
Everyone has a heighten awareness of security these days, or at least they should have. Working in the manufacturing industry sometimes it seems that security is being sure you fasten your seat belt when you get in your car to drive to or from work. That’s where security ends for many.
Seriously, it’s not as … Read More
It seems the number of IT workers joining the field are dwindling and that the pipeline of capable people is decreasing, according to a report in Computerworld:
“We’re seeing a lack of talented IT professionals looking for new positions,” says Greg Fittinghoff, vice president of business systems development at Time Inc. in New York. “We’re
After watching the Apple WWDC keynote video and reading much of the published news, the one thing that strikes me is that the the lines that separate OS from application, application from application, and local PC or Network from Internet, are quickly disappearing. With the upcoming Leopard and the applications that will go with it, … Read More
Five links for fun and general interest:
The Fresh Loaf
News and Information for Amateur Bakers and Artisan Bread Enthusiasts
Imagining the Tenth Dimension
An excellent flash presentation that explains the then dimensions
ThaiTable
Learn Thai Cooking
Qualities of effective people
Nine qualities of effective people
RecipeSource
RecipeSource is the searchable online archive of recipes … Read More
Kent Newsome wrote a recent post “Bloggers Challenge: Who Do You Write For?” and I think I would submit the last two paragraphs from a pervious post of mine, “Of course, but why?,” as my answer to his question.
I write mainly for myself. Before I put words to screen I spend time reading, researching,
If you have an interest in Apple Computer the next week should be interesting. The annual Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) is being held at San Francisco on August 7-11. Apple will be previewing its next version of OS X, 10.5 code-named Leopard, and there are wide expectations that Apple will unveil it’s Intel Powered … Read More
I guess I’m taken a little by surprise by all the commotion recently in the blogosphere about BlogHer and women bloggers. When I look at my feed reader and do some rough her/him calculations I find that nearly 35-40% of my favorite feeds are by women. I never thought much about it until recently. So … Read More
I’ve been considering two facts. One that Microsoft is moving into the portable media player market currently dominated by Apple, and two, that Apple has not released a new model of it’s iPod in quite some time. Are these two things related? I’m beginning to think they could be.
First, this move by Microsoft is … Read More
If you’re a Mac OS X user, Zengobi is giving away Curio Basic until mid-night August 7th, 2006. Just enter the required information at their website, download Curio Basic, and Zengobi will send you a free license via email.
Zengobi’s Curio is a brainstorming and project management application which is said to promote visual thinking … Read More
