Month: November 2010

Does it bother anyone that this guy, Mike Rowe, with his website mikerowesoft.com, caved to Micro$oft? I think Mike had M$ firmly in hand,

This freakish ghost has nothing else to wear But some cheap crown he picked up at a fair Grotesquely perched atop his bony corpse.

Nope, nothing new from Apple, at least not anything I’ve heard about. But this is a good moment to take a look at rumors:

Today Todd and I were out doing a bit of war driving. It’s not that either of us is quite that geeky but I

Oh, I’ve been busy, I have. What’s more, the nifty *FREE GIFTS* download system for FarrFlash subscribers is now in place. If you sign

Post-Friday Cat Blogging It’s not my fault, really. Kevin Drum at CalPundit has pushed me over the the edge, and I may well have

There is a news report that Vice-President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went duck hunting recently. I don’t know about you,

(Read this before the earlier blog entry – it was inexplicably dropped off. Another of life’s mysteries I guess.) We’re city people – not

A look at the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh is posted at CNN.com. Here is a link to the article. Here is a quote:

We’re city people – not sun-bronzed croc-wrestlers like Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin. Some of us ‘go bush’ occasionally, but not often. So it

In a very cool, cutting edge ad, 20 teens who were sued by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) for downloading music will

In the wake of the release of Apple’s GarageBand, a slew of new sites have opened up looking for eyeballs and readers. Here are

Microsoft Corp. asked the court to move a lawsuit filed by RealNetworks to Washington state from California, in a billion dollar suit over Microsoft’s

Ignore the “Mad Props” part, I know it sounds, erm, stupid, but I wanted to write “mad props” so sue me. In any event

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/leisure.gibson.reut/index.html I look forward to the release of Passion. I wonder if it is going to be released under the guises of the

“NASA’s Spirit rover stopped transmitting data from Mars for more than 24 hours, mission managers said Thursday, calling it an ‘extremely serious anomaly.’” JPL

ARTICLE http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/21/students.website.ap/index.html Is it me, or does our society seem like it is fracturing? Split elections, impeachments, planes flying into buildings, war on foreign

See, folks, it was all a silly misunderstanding. The newspapers and television newscasts got it all wrong. What was said is they found a