October 27, 2007 – 11:50 pm
I went to the yuppified mega-gihugeous mall this afternoon, and returned with the Mac OSX Leopard, family pack edition. The Apple Store was packed; there was a guy ahead of me who should give thanks tonight that he didn’t receive a richly deserved cell phone enema; his conversation was evidently more important than the people [...]
October 27, 2007 – 3:31 pm
Apple’s latest incarnation of OS X, the Leopard, has been released. I’ll be trying to scare up a copy, much as I dislike heading to shopping venues on Saturday. I’ll try Best Buy first; I don’t like Best Buy1, their store is close. If it’s no-go there, I’ll venture to Micro Center, [...]
November 4, 2006 – 7:58 pm
I faithfully try to avoid going to Best Buy. They usually have a decent selection of stuff, but in my experience, are always crowded, and extremely noisy. There’s something about large crowds in the midst of electronics that brings out the rude in people.
Today, I made an exception, and returned with a new [...]
October 29, 2006 – 10:56 am
I don’t think this anomaly is related in any way to my usage of my laptop while in Raleigh last week, but this morning when I went to retrieve mail, I received 645 duplicated messages; these were filtered by my mail app rules into their proper mail folders, spam and all. Something in the mail [...]
I wish this post detailed my purchase of a vintage Chevy El Camino. Instead, I’m experimenting with the Camino browser for the Mac. Firefox is fine, and it is still my default browser. I have a nasty habit of clogging Firefox with extension upon extension, until I render it unable to render. [...]
April 15, 2006 – 12:13 pm
When you are past that sphincter-tightening moment while TurboTax calculates the amount you owe your Uncle. Especially when it’s a net wash between federal and state.
I’ll mention again that Quicken sucks; its crash as I attempted to print my charitable contributions for last year, has sealed its fate for sure. I [...]
For the last day or so, I’ve noticed that my wireless mouse that attaches to the voyager laptop hasn’t been functioning well. It is battery operated, so I figured it’s time for a recharge. I plugged the USB charger into the mouse, took a little nap, and awoke to use my newly refreshed [...]
I’ve ranted for nearly the life of this blog (almost 6 months now, but who’s counting?) about how Quicken Sucks. Well, I fired up TurboTax 2005 for the Mac tonight, in preparation for tomorrow’s round of cursing, as we pay our annual tribute to the Powers that Be. First step was to download [...]
Apple can, with the freely downloadable Boot Camp, now boot your Intel-powered Apple device into OSX or Windows. Fine, if you are into that sort of thing, knock yourself out. I loved the digs on the Redmondian Empire on the Boot Camp page:
EFI and BIOS
Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI [...]
The voyager laptop has been exhibiting some sleep disorders of late; ranging from insomnia to narcolepsy. It seems to stay awake when I want it to sleep, and sleeps when I think it should be awake. Even closing the lid results in about a minute of sleep, then the blasted thing awakens again. [...]
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