I got to the hall at round 11AM after spending the morning in my hotel room writing yesterday’s blog. Quiet is good. Like an
Read MoreAuthor: 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.
Thursday at MWSF
Again, I wound up walking the five really long city blocks to the Moscone Center this morning, right after I posted my last blog.
Read MoreMWSF – Larry’s Final Thoughts
What a week! What a show! Frankly, the new MacBook Air was anticlimactic, the rumor sites having described it so well (though I am
Read MoreNetwork Attached Storage–What The Heck?
On the MyMac.com podcast #112, Tim and Guy discussed NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices, and having worked with them myself, I thought I’d share my
Read MoreRoll Your Own Webserver – Part 1
I’ve been running a webserver from my house for about 7 years now. I started with a PowerMac 6100 (pizza box), and later moved
Read MoreI learned about radio from that…
Disclaimer: Most of the names have been omitted for their (and my) protection. Please note, too, that this tale is based on my own
Read MoreFun with Parallels (so far)
One of the many things we MyMac.com writers do is review products for all of you fine readers. I’ve been on the staff for
Read MoreRolling Your Own Webserver-Part 2
Last time, I talked about selecting a computer and operating system for your home webserver. This time, I will be discussing the research and
Read MoreRolling Your Own Webserver – Part 3
In the last article, I described the process of obtaining a static IP address for your website, registering your domain name, and setting up
Read MoreWholly Cats! Charlie Christian’s Contribution to Modern Music
Swing jazz was all the rage in the late 1930s. Big bands could be heard every night on one live radio broadcast after another.
Read MoreJazz Guitarists of the World
I have been collecting jazz recordings, especially guitar, since the early 1970s, and have been extremely fortunate to be able to travel around the
Read MoreRolling Your Own Webserver – Part 4
NOTE: This version of Personal WebSharing not work on Intel-based Macs, as it requires use of either Classic mode on an OS X machine
Read MoreAl Viola RIP
Another of the many unsung heroes in rhythm guitar passed away last week. Al Viola (1919-2007) learned his craft in the mid-late 1930s, and
Read MoreMacgenealogy
Mac users have had to suffer from a lack of really good, professional-class genealogy programs. This has not changed to any great extent, but
Read MoreJazz Review
I know this is a Mac website, but it’s a blog site, too. Hope someone gets this album! I downloaded this album, originally released
Read MoreConcert Review
I recently attended a delightful and unusual jazz concert at the Society of the Four Arts, at Palm Beach, Florida. The performing group was
Read MoreCorporate Deployment of Vista Not Happening Right Away
A bunch of stories have been circulating around the web about how various branches of the US Government are banning Microsoft Vista. Well, it
Read MoreJoe Pass: Reluctant Guitar Hero
Joseph Anthony Passalaqua was born in 1929 at New Brunswick, NJ to an Italian-American working class family. He showed musical promise at an early
Read MoreBroadband in the Hinterlands
I work for a large corporation in the technical publications organization. Our staffers are spread literally all over the world. A fair number of
Read MoreRolling Your Own Webserver – Part 5
This time, I’m going to try to explain how to set up a very simple webserver using Personal Web Sharing for MacOS X. Personal
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