I returned home from the Nats game tonight and sat down at my Mac mini to check email and enter some mileage data at BikeJournal. It froze. I forced it to shutdown, waited a few seconds, then restarted. The Mac chimed, the screen turned on… ….and there was the blinking-question-mark folder. Wha? I tried restarting …
With the increasing prices of sweet light crude oil forcing petrol prices to increase, there’s talk on The Hill about how to “fix” the problem. After all, the United States is built around the automobile – one of the most misguided evolutions in the history of nation building, but I digress. Personally, I believe that …
One of the longest-running gags over the past 30 years has been the legal ballet played between Apple Records (the company owned by The Beatles) and Apple Computer. Various settlements have been achieved over the years to placate the music label, who had a 10 year jump-start on using the name. However, one of the …
Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee defeated an amendment to the the Barton-Rush Act, a bill that will affect the broadband telecommunications industry. This particular amendment requires the internet to be “neutral,” and would prevent phone and cable companies from instituting tolls and pay-as-you-go pricing for internet services. However, after yesterday’s 34-22 vote to …
This past weekend, the Washington Post ran a profile of frequent Daily Kos author Maryscott O’Connor. In “The Left, Online and Outraged”, O’Connor is painted as a loud, extremist nut. Her response, posted on her My Left Wing blog, doesn’t do much to disagree with the Post’s conclusions: that Maryscott – and the majority of …
Aside from being a practitioner of the Lindy Hop, Bill Nye (yes, the Science Guy) is a hero of mine. Why? Because he is standing up for science and logical reasoning. He is the theocons’ worst enemy, in sheep’s – or geek’s – clothing. From a story in the Waco Tribune: Audience members who expected …
Stuff that I’m doing this weekend: Fill out and file my Federal and District taxes done Work on a paper for class (all weekend) Go to a comedy show featuring Mitch Fatel & Dmitri Martin (from The Daily Show) (Saturday) Go to a birthday brunch (Sunday) Go to the reading of a play written by …
Apple’s move to the Intel Core chipset caught a lot of long-time Mac fans off-guard. They whined and moped for a while. But now Apple has pulled anice trick from its sleeve: Boot Camp is a “technology preview” that allows owners of Intel-based Macs to install Windows XP on their Macs in a native, bootable …
I’m having a harder time making the transition to daylight saving time this year. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I’m a bit of a night owl. And my allergies are fighting a tough battle this time of year, thus adding another layer of “grunge” to the mix. Combine that with …
Today (that being Saturday), sprite and I went on a shopping excursion to Virginia to get her a new iPod. She had one of the first-generation 5-gigabyte models – the ones with the mechanical scrollwheel – and it finally met its maker when the hard drive died a couple of months back. So we went …
