“Happy 15th Birthday to Windows 95, the Ugly Duckling that Conquered Your Desktop”
Yeah, happy birthday… and good riddance. 🙂
Archive of entries posted on September 2010
“Republican NY governor candidate sends out garbage-scented fliers”
Talk about fighting dirty… 😉 Really though, this is a pretty shrewd move. Scent is a powerful anchor for memories. Anyone with a sense of smell who looks at this is going to be hard-pressed forget the association. Of course, it might backfire. Think “my esteemed opponent, when he’s not playing in garbage…” 🙂 I …
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My New iPod, Continued
(This is the conclusion of yesterday’s post about my new fourth-generation 32GB iPod Touch. This first part is being written as iTunes loads my music and applications onto it for the first time.) Kid in a candy store… GoddessJ didn’t sleep well last night, so she was taking a nap. When she got up to …
My New iPod
I bought a 16GB first-generation iPod Touch a few years ago. It has served me well, but its battery is starting to wear out, and iOS updates will no longer work with it. So when the fourth-generation ones came out a few weeks ago, I was ready to buy a new one. They’ve added a …
“Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash”
It should have become obvious to people when the north-eastern US power outage happened a few years ago: malware is dangerous. The computer world is riddled with flaws that make it possible for a kid playing around on the computer in his bedroom (or more recently, a programmer writing a Trojan intended to steal money …
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“Artists Make More Money in File-Sharing Age Than Before It”
The record labels have been making a big stink for at least a decade about how file-sharing is driving artists to the poorhouse, but I’ve always been skeptical of that. The most popular ones might be suffering — maybe — but the vast majority of artists (I know a few) could only benefit from more …
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“6 Tricks for Doing Business on The Far Side”
I always loved the comic “The Far Side”, as did GoddessJ and most of Western civilization. It was a sad day when Gary Larson retired from writing it. But this very humorously-written article on doing business the Far Side way brings back some very fond memories, and the article itself has more than a few …
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“1TB hard drive thrown into a toy TARDIS, gives us a proper Time Machine”
Apple’s “Time Machine” backup just got a lot more interesting. I’d buy one of these in a heartbeat.
University Students
The students are back in town, very obvious in their official school tee-shirts (and by the fact that the city’s population has jumped by nearly 20% in the last couple weeks — and the traffic has gotten worse all out of proportion to that). While driving yesterday, I saw four groups of such students, and …
“Commonly Misheard Expressions to Avoid (or Fix) in Your Writing”
This kind of thing is a pet peeve of mine, and of my wife’s. We’re both avid readers, and she’s the daughter of a teacher as well; we know how these phrases are supposed to be spelled, even if we don’t know the background of them (I never knew where “beyond the pale” actually came …
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