Thanks for tormenting me Apple

It's been a couple of days now since Apple announced the new toys at Macworld. For the first day or two I was in the RDF but that's worn off now. If they had come out with iBook around $1200 or less I probably would have…

Ugly Vista

The installation of Vista didn't go quite as well as I had hoped. Actually, most of it went well with one big notable exception. I have a widescreen laptop with a native resolution of 1280x800. The ATI driver that's bundled with the latest build of Vista…

Laptop Reloaded

Yes, it's that time again to rebuild my laptop and expunge the cruft that I've accumulated.  Yes, that's a word, look it up!  :) I was going to wait until Macworld to see if the x86 iBook was announced but a number of things are…

I got the Urge...???

I have the Urge...the Urge to pick on Microsoft again. What a lame name for a music service. I can just imagine the marketing genius that came up with that name is related to the one that designed the overly cluttered Windows commercials they're running now. "…

"the rapture for nerds,"

Glenn Reynolds over on http://www.instapundit.com/ refers to hearing the Singularity dismissed as such. That got a chuckle from me. I was listening to this WEEK in TECH this morning and the Singularity was one of the things they discussed. This is something that's always fascinated…

Finally, a new Systm

Kevin Rose has finally taken some time from Digg and done a new episode of Systm. If you aren't familiar with Systm it's a geeky tech show put out by a former TechTV guy. This one's about one of my favorite programs that I…

Performancing

Kind of weird name but I like it... Performancing for Firefox | Performancing.com I just read about this over on  Om Malik on Broadband : » Performancing for Firefox, Awesome I gotta say I think I love it. It's basic in some regards but it seems to have everything in…