For twenty years I’ve been interested in Brian Eno and have wanted to see him live in concert. I suppose it began when my dad played Eno/Byrne’s “The Jezebel Spirit” for me as a kid. Years later after having some CDs stolen in a break-in, I had the opportunity to spend about $500 of insurance [...]
Not there’s really anything “bad” about an iPhone when you compare it to what else is out there. I’ve used a handful of phones, and on it’s worst day the iPhone is still a full car’s length ahead of the pack. So this is really just a list of things that surprised me as I [...]
My friends and I anticipate and watch Apple keynotes like normal people watch sports. We know all the players, we can each recite the likely strategic moves. We all saw the leaked video of the iPhone 1.1.3 update, the supposedly leaked keynote outline, etc.
And this year’s keynote was highly anticipated — maybe not like [...]
I’ve succumb to my frustration and gone back to Tiger, and I’m not missing anything about Leopard. I’ll admit it, I’m an Apple fanboy. I waited in line for Tiger, I waited in line for the iPhone, and I would have waited in line for Leopard if I didn’t already have plans that evening. But [...]
In my youth, I enjoyed installing new operating systems, even beta operating systems. As I’ve grown older this fascination has escaped me, and now I treat installing a new operating system with the same sense of trepidation that I typically reserve for connecting jumper cables to a car – it could go well and it [...]
After years of using OS X’s built-in Mail client, I’ve now switched back to using Entourage at work. And I’ve done this rather begrudgingly. It’s the end of a rather long saga of my trying to find a calendaring solution that works for me.
For quite a while, I used 30 Boxes. If you’re not familiar [...]