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- Grounded
- Just a followup to an old post: the judge handed down the maximum sentence to the pilot, and a stiff sentence to the co-pilot, calling the crime “outrageous and horrendous”.
- Medical Research With A Twist
- The South African Medical Journal has published the work of Safura Abdool Karim from the UK for her research of ‘Playstation Thumb’, which is Repetitive Strain Injury from, as it name suggests, too much Playstation. What is exceptional about this is that Ms Abdool Karim... full entry
- Drunken Pilots Not Guilty?
- The defense attorney says that “the pilots should not be convicted because they were not really operating the plane at the time in question.” Er...I don’t think this case would be a slippery slope to a Minority Report police state of predicting crime. They were... full entry
- I would like some cheese with my…
- WINE. I’m ready to see a Sourceforge project, or any movement of geektypes to buy a Mintelac and start a WINE-type layer project for OS X. The need for Virtual PC would obviously be eliminated, and from the success of the movement on Linux, implementation... full entry
- You too can Mintelac
- Mintelac, (intel inside Mac), if you haven’t heard yet, was not a rumor. Macs will within the next two years completely transition to using Intel microprocessors. Steve Jobs revealed at the WWDC keynote address that OS X has been leading a secret double life for... full entry
- Treknobabble Kills Brain Cells
- I love Star Trek, as a concept. But really. I can’t take much more of their treknobabble in their script. I don’t mind having technical jargon spewed at me as part of the ambience of the Trek universe. But the trend of having it act... full entry
- Your mind reads like a children’s novel!
- Blah! Two depressio posts in a row from yours truly. So, even though Chris showed this to me, I’ma post it, because I want to post something more lighthearted. We all know that the Force gives you power to sense things in other people, right?... full entry
- How can people be so cruel?
- Dube had it right. I have no words. I’m so angry right now it’s ridiculous. Ashamed, I go to bed.
- How Disappointing
- Orson Scott Card has let me down. [Edit: I’d rather people read this article and form their own opinions than turn Chris’s site into another senseless internet debate, so I’ve cut all of my comments entirely]
- Upgrading my Mac
- Well, it was time. With the advent of Final Cut Studio, I gained access to a powerful real-time motion graphics animator, the aptly named Motion 2. I’ve had my dual 2.0GHz G5 since February of 2004, so it’s fast, but still has nearly 2 year... full entry
- iPoot
- Bit of randomness. When this commercial comes on, my wife starts singing this.
- iPiT - the iPod Mini iTunes Dashboard Widget
- Download iPiT.zip iPiT is essentially a mod and skin of the Tiger-provided Apple iTunes Dashboard widget. I wanted something that looked more Apple-ish, and I figured an iPod Mini would do. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you�re using Safari, click the download... full entry
- Preparing for Tiger
- Here are some awesome utilities, most of which are freeware, that are superb to have on hand, but are in my opinion crucial to having a smooth and pleasant transition to a new OS (or a fresh install of a current OS, if you have... full entry
- Delicious Copier
- Microsoft’s WinHEC took place this week, and Bill Gates gave the keynote, showcasing Longhorn and hardware products that would take advantage of the new technology. One type of application that Bill referred to as being part of calendar year 2007 is MediaMania. It has bookshelves... full entry
- Surfin’ Safari (the Switch)
- After Chris’s recent entry regarding Safari’s update, I decided that I’d once again switch my browser to Safari and give it another go. Some major shortcomings discouraged me from doing it in the past, namely, a lack of an “import bookmark” function. I have needed... full entry
- Spotlight is Skynet
- Ok, so by now, you’ve probably heard about Spotlight, a new feature of Mac OS X Tiger. It indexes everything on your harddrive when you aren’t doing anything so you can perform Google-like searches on your files, with results-as-you-type speed. It searches filenames, keywords, locations,... full entry
- How to buy Ridge Racer for $24.24
- Gamestop (within the past few days) has begun taking trade-ins on “no name” DVDs without cases for $1.50. Significant to note, if you trade in the same DVD with the case, they give $1.00. Now it just so happens that Wal-Mart sells a bunch of... full entry
- If I Was The Company’s Director…
- My wife has been working for an IT/Telco solutions company for a year and a half. To cut a long story short, she’s been under a lot of stress and after hours, she comes home and unloads everything onto me, who as a dutiful husband,... full entry
- Famous TV Personality Gives Up Trademark Vice
- I’m not going to say who this TV personality is, or what the person does, or which incredibly famous TV show the person is in right now. All I can say about this are two things. One: Thirty years of legacy have seemed to be... full entry
- PSP Wiki Launches
- My feverous obsession with Sony’s new techno-marvel the PSP has led me to create a wiki[1] devoted to it. The goal is to make it the best and most comprehensive repository for everything about the PSP. Games, UMD movies, tricks, networking, hacks, how to make... full entry
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