This is going to threaten to be a “Look ma, I moved to Hollywood and met a celebrity” post, but I think there’s something
Read MoreAuthor: Bill Palmer
About that apartment building that exploded last night…
In amongst all these celebrity sightings and expo booths and rock star interviews, I was reminded of reality by news of a particular apartment
Read MoreJust tried AmazonMP3. Uh, next please.
Just tried amazonMP3 and it feels like the same clunky browser-based crap as when I tried Walmart’s download service back in 2004, and every
Read MoreiPhone 1.1.1 update released (with photos of mobile iTunes)
This morning Apple released the iPhone 1.1.1 update which includes major new features (many of them already present on the iPod touch) including the
Read MoreGet well Isaac Hanson
I’m sure some of you remember when I went off the deep end last month with my “guess the celeb” contests, the first of
Read MoreGot to see two of my favorites perform last night
For a brief moment I thought I was going to be faced with a tough decision when it came to where to be on
Read MoreWent to my first yoga class tonight
My general stiffness has given me back pain since I was a teenager, which has progressively worsened to where I’ve been on prescription anti-inflammatories
Read MoreI’ve given up on television
I knew this would happen to an extent when I moved to LA, but I didn’t know it would happen this fast or be
Read MoreSorry geeks, the iPhone is not for you
Dear geeks of the world, You keep asking what Apple’s problem is when it comes to allowing the iPhone to be hacked by third
Read More…and then I realized Pete Yorn was standing next to me. After I got hit by the car. But before the guy on stilts with the creepy cat mask.
Sometimes your evening just plays out like a game of MadLibs. When getting hit by a car doesn’t even qualify as one of the
Read MoreFive things I’m thinking right now
1. Great news on Gmail finally getting IMAP support. That only puts them seven years behind .Mac, which has offered IMAP since January 2000,
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Sometimes my occasional preposterous deadpan lines get me a reputation such that I can’t people to take me seriously when I actually mean something
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Macworld Expo Diaries, Part One
And so the journey to Macworld Expo San Francisco 2007 begins. It always seems to start in an airport, doesn’t it? I noticed something
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Bill’s Kompleat Macworld Expo story (with pics of famous people)
…and here I thought I’d get to blog on-site about my Macworld Expo experiences fairly regularly this year. Silly me for thinking there’d be
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Macworld Expo Diaries, Part Two: rise of the new-style iPod earbuds
Killing time in the Atlanta airport. Someday our grandkids will look back on the concept of connecting flights and laugh at how quaint we
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Latest MacBook rumors don’t seem to add up
I respect the fact that it’s a favorite pastime among many of my fellow Mac heads, but I’ve never been much of a rumors
Read MoreGet a Mac: the right advertisements at the right time
Love the new Get a Mac ads. They’re the right ads at the right time. Don’t let the humor fool you, these ads are
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No, I would not like a CVS card today
They should videotape this scene so they can just play it back instead of me having to re-live it each time I approach the
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“This is your captain speaking. Nothing to worry about, we just came a little too close to another plane.”
So Tim tells me I should feel free to use this blog space to promote whatever I want. I hate to be self-promotional on
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Me and my black MacBook
Here are some very poorly lit pictures of my new black MacBook that I snapped in a hurry while I was setting it up
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