I just received my combined 10-yr wedding anniversary + Xmas + Birthday present: a new 20 GB iPod to replace my aging 5 GB (first generation) iPod. I am guessing that it is going to take me a little bit of time to get used to the solid state wheel, but at least the click [...]

From NSLog(); “Question: What’s the true cost of Mac OS X to you?” My answer: Retail Paid OS X $129 $129 MS Office v.X1 $400 $0 BBEdit Pro2 $199 $79 Acquisition $15.99 $15.99 NetNewsWire $39.95 $39.95 Graphic Converter3 $30 $22 Total $813.94 $285.98 * 1. Desperate eBay seller gave me his Office v.X CD and [...]

From Cox & Forkum: Funny how they nailed this one in the head. There are many of us that do that exact thing: we sit staring at the blog wondering if we should post just so people know that the site is still alive or we just let it ride another day or so until [...]

Bad stuff. Really bad. Michael Beach stars as an overtly proud psychiatrist that has volunteered to spend a month in a reality TV show. Basically for a month the doc would have cameras following him everywhere in the hospital as he treats his assigned group of patients. Eric Lasalle (E.R.) both directs and acts as [...]

I already screwed up “Bad Movie Weekend” by watching All the President’s Men and 1984, so to make ammends I watched this turd: No Good Deed, which was originally intended to be titled “The House on Turk Street.” Now, this is a weird crappy movie because it really has a lot of good going for [...]

Since Ivette is enjoying Black Friday and I had to get my ass out of bed before 6:00 AM, I decided to treat myself to some deserved couch potato time. The problem: I watched my whole stash of CSI that I had in my PVR, so all I have left is NYPD Blue reruns. The [...]

You would think (especially if you are not in the U.S.) that “Black Friday” is a somber holiday to remember some(or a lot) of people that died in some kind of massacre. The problem is that no, this is not a remembrance holiday. “Black Friday” is a nickname invented by either retailers or the press. [...]

The Register is running a neat little article on how IBM’s POWER 5 architecture not only meets Moore’s Law, but actually defeats it. From The Register: The consequence is that IBM is currently able to deliver in line with the expectations of Moore’s Law and will probably be able to do so for the next [...]

(Boeing Photo) The Navy wants to ditch its fleet of P-3 Orion ASW aircraft (which was based in the venerable Lockheed Electra) , with a modified 737. The project is called the Multi-Mission Marine Aircraft (MMA) and it is expected to start flight testing in 2009, and it is expected to be mission-ready by 2013. [...]

We are fighting two wars overseas and one domestically. We have terrorists everywhere. Puerto Rico is going thru an electoral mess as bad as Florida was in 2000. President Bush senior’s jet crashed on his way to pick him up. The Secretary General of the UN is losing the confidence of the apparatus. But what [...]