May 28th, 2007
A few weeks ago, when we first saw the apartment Y moved into this weekend, she commented unfavorably on the lack of an elevator in this third-story walk-up. I retorted "you only have to worry about it twice: once when moving in, and again when moving out."—Continue reading....
May 25th, 2007
During the damp, dreary darkness of California winter, I looked at buying a new grill. I enjoy grilling, and for most of the year, California has great grilling weather. Buying a grill during the winter is akin to buying a convertible during a rainstorm: salespeople are thrilled to see you and will give you a great deal.—Continue reading....
May 24th, 2007
A few months back at my irregular vision checkup, I learned something that every woman I've met has known: I'm color-blind. Not severely, mind you, but enough that I'm unable to distinguish the number in the image to the side.—Continue reading....
May 21st, 2007
There are many ways of getting a file from your computer to someone else's computer: you can send it via email, from a web page, or upload it to .Mac's iDisk. But more basic than any of these is the aptly named File Transfer Protocol, or FTP. FTP is as integral to the internet as the web and for a long time was the primary way files were sent between computers.—Continue reading....
May 20th, 2007
This Friday was Y's big 3-0, and we celebrated throughout the weekend. On Friday, a small group of friends had dinner in a new Chinese restaurant, followed by Shrek The Third at a new movie theatre. What better way to enter a new decade than with new experiences?—Continue reading....
May 15th, 2007
I still own and use Apple's first iPod Shuffle (the long, white one that holds 240 songs or a gigabyte of data). I find it extremely convenient for shuffling files (not music) between machines, especially if there's no network available or the data is too big for email. I thought at the time that for $99, they were tantalizingly close to the give-away-the-device price-point, where you would, for example, buy a music album that came on the iPod Shuffle, not on CD.—Continue reading....
May 11th, 2007
Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com Issue Cease and Desist to Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks 1—Continue reading....
May 8th, 2007
With a title like that, you almost have to click through to read it. I did a few weeks ago when it came across my newsreader, and ended up on the website of Tim Ferris, where he was talking about his forthcoming book The 4-Hour Workweek
May 7th, 2007
It's 6:48pm and I (and my entire complex, and, it seems, much of the area) am without electricity. I have a couple of battery backups, and I have my Airport Extreme and DSL modem plugged into one of them. I'm posting this from my trusty MacBook.—Continue reading....
May 4th, 2007
One of the few issues of getting a Nintendo Wii, especially in the early days of our Wiinfatuation, was the constant changing of the remote's pair of AA batteries. For a while it seemed like we went through a two or three pairs a month. I thought of buying a set of rechargeable AAs, but still didn't relish the idea of swapping out batteries every few weeks to recharge them.—Continue reading....
May 2nd, 2007
Today Apple posted another Steve Jobs essay, this one about how Apple strives to create products that are environmentally friendly. Apple has been getting beat up in the press about the Mac and iPod maker's supposedly poor environmental policies, thanks in great part to Greenpeace's campaign against the company.—Continue reading....
May 1st, 2007
For the last year or so I've been trying to follow David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology, with varying levels of success. One reason for the less-than-stellar progress is a lack of a "trusted system" into which all my projects, tasks and "next actions" go.—Continue reading....
