If you have a Macintosh, don’t install Adobe Flash Player beta (formerly Macromedia Flash). It will crash Safari (and other applications that use the entire WebKit like DEVONthink) after my Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.4.6) wakes from sleep.
Swami sent me this Post column making fun of a Times promotion.
I received an e-mail today about a new camera purchase. Here is an excerpt: About the camera stuff, I am in the market for a “prosumer” digital camera and considering the Canon Rebel XT (350D). I think it’s quite a bit lower level than the D70 but do you have any thoughts on the camera […]
Today, Blake sent me Natalie Raps.
Conservative blogger, John Cole, has an insightful article on immigration being the new wedge issue for the midterm elections. It is weird because I thought that this was an issue that would just backfire against the Republicans. Hispanics, after all, are not voting “traditionally democrat†anymore than Catholics are (I believe the numbers in the […]
Today, I saw a poster next to Michael Rowley’s desk and I asked if any of the baseball fanatics at Plaxo knew which stadium it was of. Nobody did. I mentioned that I thought that it looked like Forbes Field to me. Given what I remember of the remains of it (the right field wall […]
Overheard today: J: “I have this hilarious but really debilitating hardware problem.†R: “I know these pills I got from Mexico that will fix you right up!â€
Aperture 1.1 was released as a free update today. If you own Aperture, see Software Update. (My comments about it are here.) In my original review of Aperture, the only real complaint I had was the price, which was too close to PhaseOne CaptureOne. I felt that Apple should undercut them like Final Cut Pro […]
Redgee likes to joke that his relatives are all in jail or the military. He told me a few months ago that he heard from them that they are being told to gear up for a war in Iran. Now with a recent New Yorker article I read, this rumor is getting some play in […]
Today is the day of the California 50 special election. The purpose of the special election, like that of the one that will occur in Delay’s district, is based on the premise that Republicans are more likely to vote when voter turnout is low. After all, what is the purpose in Governor Schwarzenegger wasting resources […]