I am not going to explain the Apple Crying Game, so just check out my previous entries on the subject. Yes, there is a new iMac. Yes, it looks weird. No, it does not pivot side-to-side. Yes, I think all these cable ports in the back will mess up the balance. Still, they are going [...]

Cory Doctorow wrote a short yet brilliant explanation on why BBEdit (which was updated to version 8.0 today) is the best god damn application for the Mac: All of my novels and every story I’ve written in the past eight years has been written in BBEdit. Every Boing Boing post I’ve posted (including this one) [...]

I will be moving my sites to a new host over the next week or so. This is by no means due to the quality of service that I have received from my current host since I moved here. It is very inexpensive and their tech support rocks. The problem is that it is just [...]

I have been arguing with people for quite a while that while CSS looks really damn good when done properly it: 1. Sucks because, well, it sucks to implement it. 2. Sucks because many browsers render it like shit. Still, CSS is a good thing, and we should all embrace it. I try to build [...]

I am always looking for ways to streamline my operation at the office. I have been preaching for years the wonders of REGEX to anyone that writes a lot of ASP (and now PHP). I have spent the last month moving us to a LAMP platform, away from Windows and SQL Server licenses. That kind [...]

I would like to take a moment from my 24 season 3 marathon to address something that is really starting to bother me: There’s this poor bastard, a low ranking guy in the Stryker brigade in Iraq. The guy needs a way to vent out, so he writes. And he is really good at it. [...]

I sort of gave myself a break from 24 season 3 after the first third of the season or so. Between Command & Conquer: Generals and learning PHP, I just did not have time to watch a hell of a lot of TV. Less than a week ago David (who had taken his own break [...]

New Music Tuesday evenings, yay?

I just finished writing a new short story as part of a 15-minute challenge from one of my NaNoWriMo friends. The story is a bit different from the stuff I have written in the past, it is about an idea I keep turning inside my head every time I go to work. The story is [...]

Al Dvorin, the announcer that became famous thanks to his “Elvis has left the building” was killed in a car accident in California. He was 81. From CNN: A former bandleader and talent agent in Chicago, Dvorin was with the King from his early days as a performer and was on his last tour in [...]