I stopped in at the Apple Store at 10:30 this morning to discover that in fact the Genius Bar was reserved all the way through Saturday afternoon. An apologetic stoner at the front door offered me the option of scheduling an "iPod reservation" at 2:30 and, I guess, trying to trick the "genius" into believing my latest generation iPod just so ( Read more... )

When I returned from dropping D. off at the airport, my wireless network was no longer working. This fact fascinated me because we had literally been surfing the web thirty minutes prior without problem and nothing changed between then and my return except that I now had more free time to surf the web. Of course, after the first couple months of ( Read more... )

Sometimes it hits me just how jaded we have become.

Technology is advancing so quickly that we just sort of expect it, take it for granted or focus on the continued minor inconveniences. A couple years back, I fell into a brief stint of all-consuming veneration of my iPod, not because I possess that all-too-prevalent consumerist need to flaunt ( Read more... )

Last Friday, my computarded pal, S., asked me to research screenwriting applications and/or document templates for his Mac, which led me to discover celtx, a rather slick cross-platform FOSS application for pre-production.

Now, if only improved workflow brought with it greater creativity.

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There was a moment of genuine loss for words yesterday after my manager rewarded me for all my hard work with an iPod Nano. It was terribly unexpected and rather touching at the time. I dug through a mass of crumpled blue tissue paper expecting stale baked goods or a novelty ceramic mug. The Nano was a far cry from the handful of free movie ( Read more... )

It looks like I shan't be watching the fifth season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer anytime soon, as my DVD player no longer recognizes the presence of a disc within it. I found this distressing on a number of different levels, but in particular it seems more than a little suspicious that the device mysteriously ceased to function two years and ( Read more... )

While leaning back in my captain's chair to throw away a banana peel, I kicked over my workstation and apparently aggravated it to no end (as it stopped detecting SCSI devices entirely). I then had to turn on the lights in my office (something I cannot abide) and dig through the rare owner's manual so I might discern how in the fuck one actually ( Read more... )

Why do we need an image host?Images have to reside somewhere accessible via the internet which, unless you have a permanent connection and are set up to be a server, is unlikely to be your computer. Unfortunately, most people don't appreciate the idea of you using them merely for image storage (without actually loading up webpages on their servers ( Read more... )