I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
It is interesting, what happens as we try to do life. It’s been a year and half since I left Apple. I’ve learned a lot. Haven’t been quite as successful as I’d like at the things I’m trying to do. I didn’t think I was ready to give up yet. I thought I was going … Read more
Sensationalism. You gotta love it. Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes: ZDNet Australia but wait… Mac OS X hacked in 30 minutes? Not quite and finally… Mac OS X Security Test The article on that last site, Mac OS X Security Test, tells The Rest of the Story (copyright Paul Harvey). Fear, like sex, … Read more
Here in the blogosphere, who links to you and how often is like currency. There are several site out there that do nothing but track who is linking to who. Technorati is, supposedly, the a-list of link tracking. So, it pisses me off just a little bit that Technorati’s link counting seems to be just … Read more
Writers Block Live is calling for a complete boycott of all high definition video (HD) that uses any kind of DRM such as AACS. The core issue is the desire of major corporate content publishers to incorporate control over how and when copies are made. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the term that has come … Read more
Whew! What a pain in the butt. I finally got my weblog nailed back together. This time with no plug-ins installed. I can’t honestly say that the plug-ins were to blame. It does seem that the problem stemmed either from the plug-ins or the fact that I’m not technically savvy enough to properly handle plug-ins. … Read more
The content management system (CMS) I used, MovableType, crapped out on me. It won’t let me log into the control panel. I’m trying to get it fixed but since I don’t really know what is wrong… We’ll see how it goes. Maybe it’s time to switch on over to Expression Engine or some other CMS. … Read more
Zillow.com is pretty cool. Not at all cool that it doesn’t support (read: actively prohibits) Safari. So, you have to install Firefox to check it out. Zillow.com proposes to tell you the current market value of your house. They’ve incorporated the now required satellite maps which is kind of cool. You can see the values … Read more
I was, briefly, signed up with the webhost provider, Dreamhost. Since that time the email address that I gave them and only them has been a primary source of spam in my inbox. I’ll let readers drawn their own conclusions. In any case, I received the following text in a spam message sent to that … Read more
My hard drive died on Friday. Friday morning I was using my PowerBook for email and web while waiting for my tower to do work. Suddenly it started making this click, click, click sound. It didn’t sound at all good so I shut the thing down. I was going that direction anyway so I decided … Read more
Guy Kawasaki is touting a new application called FilmLoop. The company developing FilmLoop is one of Garage.com’s latest children. Guy Kawasaki is one of their directors. Guy wants FilmLoop to be successful. FilmLoop is an interesting concept but, in my opinion, flawed in its implementation on one major point and one related minor point. FilmLoop … Read more