If the energy forces that rule the cosmos decided to give an award for Most Incompetent Tradesperson, I wouldn’t come in last. But I bet I would win Mr. Congeniality in that contest.
Amy ordered a mammoth-gargantuan cedar plaything from CedarWorks (tell ‘em Amy sent you). It came early this week and has slowly made [...]
Well, it looked the same to me …
Swollen batteries
I wonder if some of my MacBook hinkiness (”I’m ready to give PC-Mac the dual boot”) is due to problems like this. Thanks to Jeff for the link.
Fan Club
In what has the potential to be the coolest sport innovation since the print-your-own tickets issued by Ticketmaster, the Schaumburg Flyers — an independent minor league team in northern Illinois — will soon unveil “Fan Club: Reality Baseball” to allow fans to manage the team during the second half of the season.
The web site, [...]
I’m ready to give PC-Mac the dual boot
I’ll begin by saying, “I love my new macbook.” It’s pretty. It’s quiet. It’s a much faster computer than I’ve ever had. However, it hasn’t lived up to the high expectations about what I can do with it.
First the scariest part … On two separate occasions, my mac has stopped responding. The drive starts to [...]
Short props
… to Erik, Matt and Ryan.
Erik dressed up Planet Info recently, including putting our heads in jars. No longer are we outcasts, lowly question marks on a shelf full of brains.
Matt’s PR department is working overtime. First, he gets a New Scientist blurb. Now, it’s the IDS comin’ callin’. If someone has $500K for Mr. [...]
My love-hate for computers
The incremental nature of computer upgrades is fantastic … until you are faced with starting from scratch. Then, all of the little tweaks and customizations and habits that evolved over the course of regular use go missing. There is at once this great opportunity to clean the microchip garage, pitching liberally, but also a vital [...]
Migration
I finally took steps to close down the old ISP account hosing makice.net, the domain our family has had since just before Carter was born. I’ve had accounts with Stans (back in Woodstock) since self-learning internet programming and doing freelance design back in the hometown, in ‘96. They’ve been great, but lately we’ve been horrid [...]