Yup, happened again. The iMac was shut down when I woke up this morning, and it refused to power up again. I ran through the official troubleshooting checklist for power issues, and I narrowed it down to a bad power supply, which is covered under warranty. I thought I would go to the Apple Care [...]

This is a Google fodder article to help anyone else trying to troubleshoot the following error: localhost kernel[0]: AppleSMU — shutdown cause = -110 What happens is your iMac G5 will shut down suddenly and with no warning. The machine may not even be warm, or doing a lot of work. It just simply shuts [...]

I am double impressed with this: Not only because it is simply awesome, but because back in the day I had to suffer through the math, physics and engineering mechanics statics/dynamics that govern the demonstration in that video. It is just fantastic. To think that these people are so awesome that they have managed to [...]

I am going over some of the holiday sale fliers, and I am seeing some really disturbing pricing trends involving cables. The first one is from a week or so ago, from the launch of the PS3. The only HDMI cable kept close to the PS3s retails for $99.95. That’s a frickin cable. $30 or [...]

In wuss mode … and with a much more experienced co-op player! What a game! Gears of War is proof that shooting games is far from a tired subject in gaming. If you think you are badass because you are good in Halo 2, this is a complete different experience. Most of the things that [...]

Saw it at last. Yes, it is funny as hell. No, it is not the funniest movie ever made, but it is well worth the ticket. If you have seen the trailers, you already saw the first 5-10 minutes or so, which probably breaks some kind of union rule because as far as I can [...]

Last night on my way to watch Borat I remembered that the Wii was going to launch today. I had yet to see one in person so I stopped by Best Buy to take a look at it and hopefully see it in action. What I got was a line of about 20 teenagers, many [...]

It is hard to give a shit about the Blu-Ray v. HD-DVD debate when you: 1. Don’t buy or rent DVDs. 2. Have a full-blast subscription to digital cable that includes a half dozen of all-you-can-eat on demand content. 3. You don’t feel like blowing another $200 for the HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360, [...]

This one is a shocker. I am so used to PJ being independent that, except for the daily horseplay session, I don’t expect to play much with him. Also, except for some Flash puzzles online, he has shown zero interest in our computers. He sees me play in the Mac, and it is just not [...]

The following is of no particular interest to you unless you happen to be the parent of a child that is into playing with Thomas the Tank Engine die cast trains: Wear shoes! I have never been one to wear shoes at home, my mother spent years trying to get us to at least wear [...]