Archive for January, 2006

The Coming Mac-Centric Name Change

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

It’s probably worth it to state the obvious: Apple is changing the names of all of it’s machines to make sure the word “Mac” appears in each and every available model. If Mac is already in there, it probably won’t change. If it’s not, then be prepared for an awkward shift. iBook will change to [...]

Andy Rooney on Not Getting Things Done

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Andy Rooney, aka cranky old guy at the end of 60 minutes, uses his three minutes of prime time to either talk about something mundane (barns for instance) or say something pretty damn smart that needs to be said (the war in Iraq is an absolute nightmare). I ran into the December 29th Andy Rooney [...]

Bedford’s Law Examples Flawed

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Boingboing has a story up about Bedford’s Law that’s pretty cool, but the math used in the examples has a couple blatant errors in it. I’m not questioning the validity of Bedford’s Law, but simply pointing out a couple problems with the examples that were chosen to demonstrate it which were originally taken from this [...]

Why You Should Buy Windows Vista, Translated

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Jim Allchin, group vice president, Microsoft in an interview with News.com: “Safety and security is the overriding feature that most people will want to have Windows Vista for. Even if they are not into home entertainment or in any of the specialty areas, they are just going to feel safer and more secure by using [...]

Amazing View of the Aurora from Space

Friday, January 27th, 2006

There’s a pretty astounding picture of the Earth’s aurora as seen from space courtesy of the relatively new IMAGE satellite as well as a movie of the aurora in action. You really shouldn’t miss this.

FedEx is Worse Than the Cable Guy

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I’ve spent the day tied to the homestead waiting for a package from FedEx which according to their website has been “On FedEx vehicle for delivery” since 6:20 am this morning. When will it arrive? Who knows, but if I want to lay my hands on it, I have to be in my place from [...]

The Bloggies:
Rewarding Popularity & Harassment

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

The Bloggies, annual awards for blogs, come in 30 different categories, but really only come in two categories. Blogs that are very very popular (a la BoingBoing) Blogs that best harass their readers to vote for them on a daily basis That pretty much sums it up.

Technology Predictions for 2006

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

The OS Wars Are Back with Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Windows Vista The OS wars will come back this year after being dormant for over a decade. Microsoft will be releasing Windows Vista while Apple is sure to have another Mac OS X update on the way. It will more than likely be the [...]

Political Predictions for 2006

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

The Democrats The Democratic Party will split into two warring camps wrestling for control as we creep towards 2008: the “fighting democrat” led by General Wesley Clark and the “moderate democrat” led by Senator Hillary Clinton. Hopefully it will resolve itself by 2008 with a Clinton/Clark or Clark/Clinton ticket. The sad part about all of [...]

A Quick Review of iPhoto 6

Friday, January 20th, 2006

I’m generally enjoying the improvements in iPhoto 6. Here’s the breakdown. The good: – It’s much faster. I run a 1.25 GHz Powerbook with only 512 MB of RAM and it speeds along quite nicely. – I love the new full screen mode and it is now my default for photo editing and comparing shots. [...]