Larry Grinnell returns to rant about the end of the Xserve and ponders (rants) on what the heck happened to the traditional (print) graphic arts industry; all with his obligatory wild digressions.
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Author: Larry Grinnell
Larry Grinnell has been a Mac user since before there were Macs, first being exposed to his brother-in-law's Apple Lisa 7/7 office system, in 1982 or 1983.
After a nine year stint in the US Air Force, he took an electronics technician job at Motorola, Inc., where he stayed for almost 27 years. In that time, he held additional diverse positions from manufacturing engineering technician to technical writing to print production consultant to department webmaster.
Currently, he's the sole technical writer for a small communications/electronics firm in Davie, FL. He is a member of the MyMac.com writing staff, and recently completed a two-year stint writing a weekly Macintosh and Apple-oriented column for the Palm Beach Business website (http://www.pbbusiness.com). In his copious free time, he does layout and prepress work for the Grinnell Family Association's quarterly newsletter, and runs their website at http://www.grinnellfamily.org.
In 2013, one of his photographs was published in the New York Times.
He just finished editing, layout, and prepress work for an all new Grinnell family genealogy, which promises to be roughly 2,800 pages in size. Publication date is tentatively scheduled for late 2015 or early 2016.
Larry collects jazz guitar recordings, and is currently trying, for the fifth time, to learn to play the guitar.
He lives in Greenacres, FL.
But I Digress, or My Weekend in Chicago
Once upon a time when I was a corporate drone, I traveled a lot on my employer’s dime. My former employer’s policy was to
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Great Musical Jokes
I was just listening to my iPod in shuffle mode as I scanned the various job boards (yup, another statistic…) when a wonderfully wacky
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Don’t Write the Obit for Newspapers Yet
The blogosphere gets it wrong again… A rather sensational blog from Newsbusters.org, reported in an OpEd piece published by the S. Florida Sun-Sentinel, which
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Adventures in Problem Solving
Several years ago, my older brother, primarily a Windows user (though the rest of the family doesn’t hold that against him), bought an iMac
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Much Too Close to Home
My older brother, an admitted workaholic, retired from the Air Force about ten years (maybe longer) ago as a full colonel, and settled into
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Too much time on my hands?
As I approach month five of unemployment, I look more and more for simple and inexpensive projects to occupy the time I’m not spending
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David E. Davis, Jr. Returns to Car and Driver
The July issue of Car and Driver, venerable automotive fanboy mag, added a new contributing editor to its masthead. David E. Davis, Jr. (never
Read Moreeasy VHS to DVD for Mac – Review
This review could have gone very, very badly, had it not been for Roxio’s excellent support website, and their intrepid PR person, who kept the dialog going when I was ready to wash my hands of the whole thing.
That said, the last thing I wanted to do was start yet another review with: "I really wanted to like this product, but…"
Read MoreStrategic Mobile Design – Creating Engaging Experiences – Review
The mobile devices industry is in turmoil–a statement that could be ripped from the headlines of any newspaper, magazine, or website. Not only is the economy in rough shape (something to which I can personally attest), but the traditional cellphone of yore is also undergoing radical changes.
Visual Quickstart Guide XML (Second Edition) – Review
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has become the medium to move data in efficient and predictable ways. Derived from a similar markup language, SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), XML is structured, but not as highly as SGML. Structure is what it’s all about. The very loosely structured HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is also derived from SGML. Even the XML markup looks amazingly like HTML, except, as the author explains, HTML defines how information will look, while XML defines how the information is formatted.
Macworld/CES?
A posting on the Macintosh News Network (MacNN.com) describes some interesting goings-on by the folks who run the huge Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in
Read MoreInternet Security Barrier X5 Antispam Edition DP – Review
There are only a very few commercial anti-virus programs available for the Mac: Norton AntiVirus and Intego’s Internet Security Barrier X5. There’s also one major freeware product, ClamXav. Today, however, we’re going to talk about the Intego Internet Security Barrier X5 Dual Protection product.
RAIDBank4 – Review
Briefly described, the RAIDBank4 is a 4.85 x 6.5 x 9.1 inch box which holds four SATA hard drives (in this case, there were four decent quality Western Digital 500 GB drives). Micronet bills this unit as the "world’s smallest RAID". While I don’t know this to be true, I don’t think it could get much smaller.
Color: Correcting and Grading in Final Cut Studio
Color: Correcting and Grading in Final Cut Studio by Michael Wohl and David Gross Publisher: Peachpit Press ISBN: 978-0-321-50911-6 Price: $54.99 US, $59.99 Canada,
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Nemo is shopping for a new car
At the request of some of the folks who participate in the MyMac.com mail list, here’s a transcript of a recent email thread. It
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Fantom GForce MegaDisk NAS Review Rebuttal
The following is a rebuttal from Fantom/MicroNet to my recent review of the Fantom MegaDisk NAS. Fantom’s comments are in italics. My comments are
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Mac switch revisited
In the latest issue of Computerworld magazine, an industry trade journal, they returned to Auto Warehousing Co. to see how their Macintosh switch was
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Jimmy Raney: Bebop’s Quiet Master
Jimmy Raney, one of the great unsung heroes of bebop jazz guitar was born in Louisville, KY, in 1927. He moved to Chicago in
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What’s Larry Listening To This Month?
After doing that profile on Jimmy Raney a few weeks ago, I went back through my collection of Raney material and came up with
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