Dec - 23rd
MacBook Presser
Posted at 2:02 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I've been peppered with a lot of emails since my hinting and then confirming of my recent purchase of a MacBook. And longtime readers have known of my desire to return home for a long, long time. Instead of answering these emails individually, I have decided to host a press-conference on the subject. Here goes...
Thank [...]
Dec - 18th
MacBook
Posted at 11:18 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I'm back, and it feels good.
Image: Insanely Great Tees
Dec - 16th
In Transit
Posted at 9:45 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
One of these days I'm going to visit Shenzhen; it must be a magical place...
Image: FedEx
Oct - 18th
Blogging Live from the Apple Store
Posted at 6:43 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I am here at the Emeryville Apple Store trying to determine if the backlit keyboard is worth $300 (plus a little faster processor and a little more storage). I don't see that MacBook on display here, but I guess I can figure out its worth on the MacBook Pro. I have already gotten used to [...]
Oct - 15th
So, No $800 MacBook
Posted at 12:05 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Some interesting back-story on the new MacBooks released yesterday. Late last week, a rumor churned that the entry price-point for the new (low-end) MacBook would be $800, which would be a startling change of pace for Apple. This turned out not to be the case.
The rumor was apparently started exclusively by Duncan Riley, formerly of [...]
Oct - 14th
Apple Store Will Be Back Soon
Posted at 8:48 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
With the release of the new MacBooks due today, the Apple Store is conveniently down this morning...
Image: Apple.com
Sep - 26th
Triumph of the Nerds
Posted at 11:11 am | Filed Under Film Retrospective
This documentary of the rise of the personal computer is clearly dated, but it includes interviews with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, including the memorable "Microsoft has no taste" line...*
This film does identify the basis however -- for the record -- the argument that Steve Jobs has exhibited the greatest second act in the history [...]
Sep - 25th
Loose Ends
Posted at 2:29 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I've taken on the task of cutting some loose ends of myself around the web. Over the years, I have sampled a lot of services, most of them junk. Plenty of them were not worth re-visiting, and despite a username/password, there is nothing really there. Elsewhere, however, I have personal information of photos or videos [...]
Aug - 25th
iPhone
Posted at 8:51 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
This may make me "strange," especially for someone who keeps a blog, but at least one thing I am thankful for this evening... I do not own an iPhone. A $120 phone bill to bitch about the lack of copy-and-paste capability? Gripes over the App store? (Read: dork patrol. Pass the dungeons and dragons rule [...]
Jul - 8th
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Posted at 10:38 am | Filed Under Film Retrospective
This movie changed my outlook on life when I first watched it on TNT in 1999. I had to make sure my wife saw it too before it was too late, and although the soundtrack sound-levels are considerably "off," this made-for-TV movie stands up pretty well over time.
I hadn't realized, however, that while I was [...]
Jul - 7th
Apple v. Microsoft
Posted at 9:27 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
After watching my favorite made-for-tv movie of all-time -- Pirates of Silicon Valley -- last night, watching this video (a scene re-enacted in the film) made for great entertainment this morning...
I am looking into reading a book on the subject of Macintosh, Windows, and the war between the two companies -- Apple and Microsoft. [...]
Apr - 26th
Blogging Live from the Apple Store
Posted at 4:50 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I am at the Apple Store in Emeryville while my wife does some weekend shopping. This is officially the first day of summer in the Bay Area -- eighty degrees and sunny; the grasses are now becoming a burnt brown, and will be a major fire hazard later in the year.
I am considering -- I [...]
Jan - 17th
In the News… Fuckin’ Clowns.
Posted at 10:05 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
- It looks like we will have more to look forward to in this election season in California than just an ad or two. Believe it or not, the 2008 democratic nomination may be decided in the bay area (not Nashua, New Hampshire, or Columbia, South Carolina). "The crazy Bay Area is going to pick [...]
Dec - 28th
In the News
Posted at 12:17 pm | Filed Under In the News
I'm drunk as hell... on Christmas cheer.
- I dig Apple and all, but my guess is that their offering of movie downloads, a natural market extension for the iTunes service, will not "kill" Netflix. (Wal-Mart has dropped its rival service.) Why are tech writers so hung up on finding "killers" in the marketplace?
- I like [...]
Dec - 21st
In the News
Posted at 9:46 am | Filed Under In the News
It has been too long.
- Tom Tancredo, the most racist of the GOP contenders (and that is saying something), has decided to drop-out of the race. I guess polling at 0.05% is a bit discouraging.
- The EPA administrator, which -- in the Bush White House -- has become something of an impish position, disregarded the [...]
Oct - 27th
Blogging Live from the Apple Store
Posted at 12:18 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Every few months, or in my case, once a year, it is time to do some shopping. And starting a new job always requires a new shirt or two. I am here with the wife in Emeryville, home of Pixar, and the greatest outdoor shopping experience in the East Bay. I'll admit that I'm an [...]
Sep - 5th
In the News
Posted at 11:41 am | Filed Under In the News
- An independent report to Congress concludes that the Iraqi Security Force "is 'operationally ineffective' and should be disbanded and reorganized." Wait until September... oh shit.
- Bush has no love in Congress as has "prevailed on only 14 percent of the 76 roll call votes on which he took a clear position," the lowest mark [...]
Aug - 30th
In the News
Posted at 8:47 am | Filed Under In the News
- Republicans are looking to rid themselves of Senator Larry Craig. (Is it because he was arrested, or because he may be a closeted gay man?)
- Bush is a polarizing president, even more than Ronald Reagan, mainly because "Bush has from the beginning governed as if he had a broad conservative mandate." While Bush has [...]
Aug - 23rd
In the News
Posted at 9:07 am | Filed Under In the News
- John Edwards is using the Rove-Clinton sparring to his advantage, or he is at least trying to. (I'm warming up to Edwards.)
- Fred Thompson -- who is not even in the goddamn race yet -- is taking shots at Rudy Giuliani by "criticizing New York gun laws," which is a weird angle, since as [...]
Aug - 9th
E-Diddy
Posted at 1:04 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
My sister-in-law made the news...
"[Tour for the Cure's Tim Riley's] girlfriend, Edyta Szczepankowska, 24, who works in the investment office at the University of Pennsylvania, visited him at the game in Trenton. She hopes to get an MBA and, with regard to the 50-50, favors unrestricted competition. 'You don't see Apple crying about IBM,' she [...]