It’s been a really stressful week and I’m glad to finally see it end. Today was my last day at a job I’ve had for 17+ years. When you’ve worked someplace that long it’s impossible not to define at least a part of yourself by the job. I’m at the point tonight when I’m realizing … Read More
Interesting video of 37signals.¬ I really like their concepts of design simplicity.
37signals on Why Mac – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
37signals is the company that brought the world Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, and a raft of other Web 2.0 goodies. They did it all on Macs, and Apple has posted a video profiling
I did a post a while back about trying to load Ubuntu Linux on an older PC I had setting around but wasn’t using. It was a P3 1.4GHz machine with 1Gb of RAM. I thought this would be a good machine to experiment with Ubuntu on but after many attempts I finally gave up. … Read More
Rumors of Apple developing a cell phone(s) continue. With cell phones being such a highly competitive market, this to me would seem an unwise move for Apple. Many cell phones already have MP3 playing capabilities and this function doesn’t seem to be one that’s driving people to buy one phone over the other. I fail … Read More
Very few people would argue with the fact that the distributed effect of the Internet is changing computing as we know it. No longer are we looking at applications that only run stand-along, but are quickly seeing more and more applications that allow people to work together, share information, and present the user with simple … Read More
The place we rented at the beach advertises that it has high-speed Internet access. These days this term “high-speed” Internet is used to mean anything faster then a dial-up line. They even say in their documentation that it is up to 50 times as fast as a 56k dial-up line. So I guess a dial-up … Read More
My wife and I are heading to the beach (Myrtle, SC) on vacation for most of this next week. I’ll have access to the Internet but I don’t know if posting will be a priority for me or not. This is our first extended vacation in some time. I hope to get some pictures to … Read More
Have you ever had what at the time of occurrence appeared to be a random event or impulsive decision turn out a short time later to be purposeful and timely?¬ I have!
I wrote this past weekend about a personal impulsively decision that may be developing into an extremely timely event.¬ I can’t go into … Read More
Now we all know that Vista will be pirated even if Microsoft has all intentions of preventing it (see reference below). You can’t lock down a product to the point that it “can’t” be pirated without also making it too difficult and inconvenient for legal users to use.
Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to
There’s been many reports on how much more stable Microsoft’s Vista RC1 has been compared to earlier releases. Vista RC2 should be out possibly by the end of this week and will be near ready for release. Congratulations to Microsoft for the progress they have made recently with Vista.
Now that Vista is stable and … Read More
I’ve done a couple of post now on Microsoft’s Zune device and how it might fare against Apple’s iPod. I own an iPod and use it almost every weekday for listening to audiobooks and/or podcasts as I commute to and from work. I consider the iPod to be an extremely well designed and functional audio … Read More
I haven’t posted this weekend, even missed my normal “Five for Fun” links post today. Some of you might be thinking that was a lucky break for you. I was feeling the need to take a break this weekend.
Yesterday, while doing normal Saturday errands, my wife and I ended up buying a car. We … Read More
Yesterday I did a post of how the Zune was going to be a losing proposition for Microsoft during this coming Holiday Season. This was based on the fact that Microsoft had announced that it was going to be losing money on each Zune sold at the price point it had announced.
I may … Read More
I continue to see posts dealing with the subject of linking or not linking in blogs. Some say that by not linking it is damaging the utility of the blogosphere- both as a conversational medium and as an information resource. That may be true. For me it’s a simply matter of personal integrity and … Read More
Merlin Mann has a post on 43Folders concerning the repackaging of Apple’s .Mac web offering. I’m currently a .Mac subscriber and have been for a couple of years, but I’m undecided if I’ll renew my subscription again.
I joined when I made my switch to the Mac. When you’re changing platforms your looking for security … Read More
