While on vacation in Hawaii, my Macbook Pro suddenly decided to stop working. When hitting the power button, all you get is a loop of startup chimes. Good times. I took a little trip to Maui’s home depot, and got the screw drivers I would need to take it apart. I …
I love the new Apple keyboard. But like a lot of other people, on one of my machines, the expose and dashboard keys weren’t working. So I thought I would dig into the issue. The problem is apparently that Dock.app isn’t getting updated properly. The keyboard driver is sending the commands …
Working on a new, more comprehensive backup plan for teh work. I think I might have reached some level of okayness with BRU. I’m a little concerned with the hot swap raid cage I bought though. Last couple of backups have been fine, but a few before that were frozen with a …
I feel very Blah today. That is all.
The New York Times has an article about psychology and life narrative that I found interesting. I won’t go into my own feelings too deeply, but there’s a lot here that is intriguing. I particularly thought about Joseph Campbell, and “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and also Terrence Mckenna. Both talked …
So I think I ended up on the wrong side of Netflix’s punish-meter. I was a customer a few years ago, and left because they were throttling me.
I re-upped after the lawsuit thinking they would start chilling out with that. I also made sure I kept DVDs for at least a couple of …
My first reactions to the VA shootings were not to the shootings themselves, but to the reactions of others. The first thing that struck me was the amount and intensity of emotion around the shootings, in stark contrast to the lack of emotion around the ongoing daily deaths in Iraq. Now, this wasn’t …
So 10.5 is delayed. In the over-all scope of things, this is not the end of the world. Of course it could mean less dollars for Apple as people delay their hardware purchases in anticipation of the release.
The 4 month delay doesn’t really bother me. I can wait a little longer for …
Apple today brought forth the fury of 8 cores! “And that’s right cotton, it costs 4 grand.” “That’s a lot of scratch”
Apple continues to ship its pro desktops with only 1GB of its “more expensive than gold” FB-DIMM memory. No new case, no new video card options, nothing new except for the processors. …
Last night was spent deep in the throes of photography land. One of the panos I was working on would simply die every time I tried to build it, so I halved its size and tried again. Success!
This is a big honker at something like 3ft x 13 feet. I’ve cropped off …