It wasn’t more than a year ago when I wrote in my OSCON bio:
Terry Chay is the only Mac user at Plaxo, where he develops the web-based version of their product (they tolerate him because he stinks at CounterStrike).
A few weeks ago, IT purchased a couple of Mac Minis to ramp up Mac support now [...]
Michael at work just got a Treo 650 and because I have a Palm T|X (review roundup), he was wondering how to get up using the Palm features.
In my opinion the two are not the same product, there are a lot of cool things that I could do with a PalmOS that are too inconvenient [...]
I saw on BoingBoing that Macrovision is threatening VersionTracker for listing MacTheRipper. I had forgotten what a wonderfully useful program
A shirt I got from SportMart had one of these left on it:
Everyone knows this as an EAS or clothing security tag, inktag, or whatever. Luckily, mine didn’t have any ink.
In 1999, I used to eat lunches in Novell’s offices (now eBay’s headquarters). In 2000, Dave visited me and I showed him all the crappiest food in the valley. In 2001, Dave came to the Valley and we decided we needed to visit corporate cafeteries, because the only thing you got free in the valley, [...]
Preview 2 of Opera 9 is out. The big thing is the integrated BitTorrent client.
I’m not planning on using Opera but because Microsoft Internet Explorer for the Mac is dead, it might be fun to have it lying around to learn some AJAX quirks it might have. Besides, Opera’s rendering engine might be used in [...]
I read this article today about Toshiba buying out Westinghouse Electric.
I shouldn’t be surprised that Slashdot gets it wrong again. Really wrong.
First of all, Westinghouse hasn’t made blenders since around the time I was born. They sold off the appliances division to a separate company, White, which renamed itself White-Westinghouse. The confusion arises because White-Westinghouse [...]
My obligatory Superbowl blog entry:
“You can’t believe how seriously these people take their football.â€
—overheard, “Gridiron Cityâ€
The quote above comes from an op-ed in today’s New York Times. The answer is, “Yes, I can believe,†because, like Holly, I grew up in Pittsburgh, and they do take their football seriously there.
The article does a great job [...]
When I was in Costco the other day, I noticed that Pentax’s dSLR was undercutting the Nikon D50 kit by a couple bucks. Then, I read today that the Pentax *st DL with 18-55mm kit lens dropped another $200 to $599. If you figure the lens is about $100, we’re at $500.
Wow!
