Appalachian Views

Looking toward the Porters Creek watershed from along The Boulevard trail: The higher elevation spruce-fir forests of the Smoky Mountains have been slowly decimated

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Three Questions for Qupertino

Three Sets of Questions for Qupertino and for MyMac.com readers from the “Uncyclopedia of Macintosh Ignorama” 1 = iTunes: How many weekly downloads take

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More New Stuff From Apple

COOL! Apple Computer today announced new upgrades for their top of the line PowerBooks and PowerMacs. Annoucement was made at the Photo Plus Expo.

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Monday Morning Blahs

Mondays. They always come too soon after the weekend. Here I am, just getting used to being off for a couple of days, and

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The iPod OS Over the OS X

Don’t get me wrong. I love Apple’s newest and greatest OS X Tiger. It looks and works wonderfully on my iMac, and my iBook.

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David Wins a Free Song

So I’m dying to try this gifting thing out on iTunes, problem is I don’t have anyone to send one too who’ll be around

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Because It Is Still A Mac

Yesterday, Apple broke sales records again. The surprising news was that they did it with sales of their computers. “The company made $430m profit

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No Fugs Today

Billmon linked to Ginsberg’s Howl on Friday, so I’m sitting here while it prints out. I saw the bearded obscene Jewish saint on the

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99 Days to Macworld 2006 SF

Promotional material is beginning to arrive for MWSF 2006, including snail mail previews from host IDG World Expo and special “only $199 per night plus tax” hotel rates from our friends at Inside Mac Radio.

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Middle East Adventures

A quick recap. From 1985 to 1991, I worked for a large US Government contractor. I repaired US Embassy and Consulate security systems. I

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In Other News This Week . . .

WASHINGTON It looks like Tom DeLay, House Majority leader, indicted for criminal conspiracy in campaign fundraising, will be immediately extradited to Texas, where he

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