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Oct 29 2007
[update: Of course, the author of this excellent bit of analysis is Eric BURKE ..not "Burns" {/me blushes; looks at ground, fidgets nervously} Oy-vey. Major briano on my part ... must have been channeling an old friend of mine who is, in fact, named Eric Burns. My Apologies to this Eric!! [...]
Oct 22 2007
In just a little under 96 hours, Apple will loose OS X v 10.5 a.k.a. “Leopard” on the world. As a long time devotée of Apple’s stuff (I was writing software professionally back on my Apple ][ in high-school) I think this is the most exciting release yet.
Apple posted a very nice “guided [...]
Oct 17 2007
Huh… it’s not even out yet, and already Amazon is selling Apple’s update to OS X at ~$20 off list for both the single-user and the “family pack” (5-user) editions:
Oh yeah, and if past is prologue, Amazon will somehow manage to ship these puppies as soon as they arrive so ordering from Amazon may well [...]
Oct 15 2007
This past Sunday’s NYTimes has a great article on FaceBook’s changing demographics. The article starts out talking about the social “ick” factor for some 20-somethings that their Moms are on FaceBook (I’ve seen this first hand — a college friend of mine found her 18yr old daughter berating her — online on FaceBook no less [...]
Oct 12 2007
So, suddenly the NY Times decides its a good idea to put comments from random readers on its front page… don’t we have a letters to the editor section for stuff like this..?
BTW, I don’t think the comment from the “pro-Gore” side should be on the front page either. My parents, who [...]
Oct 10 2007
I guess it’s a good thing that Thanksgiving is just around the corner… This just arrived from Amazon this afternoon: Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn.
Now, if there’s one thing my close friends have come to know well, is that I love, love, love to cook. And one of my favorite things to [...]
Oct 10 2007
So, my 7 yr old daughter surfed on over to Disney this evening after finsihing her homework to play a few games. No matter what game she tried to play she got a “redirect” message (see below – talk about your poor site design), and then a notice that the game she selected (and it [...]
Oct 09 2007
Update: The Huffington Post’s Eric Williams has even more on this, and coins the term of the week: “Flag Hag.” Perfect.
So, in an unbelievably asinine piece, the LA Times has declared, as part of some really poor reporting centering on how self-proclaimed “conservatives” are upset with Google’s little logos commemorating historical events, that “public [...]
Oct 08 2007
Joe Davison over at Name Strategy has put together a very interesting post that dismantles any idea that writing apps for FaceBook might be a good thing under their current platform development license…
As more and more people open up their platforms, this is going to become a recurring theme: the idea that even beyond [...]
Oct 07 2007
It’s Columbus Day weekend, and here in Huntington that means it’s the end of the season at The Shack. The shack is one of those classic road-side eateries that’s so good you make it your business to go back again, and again, year after year after year…
We know the owners of the shack, Kat [...]