I got my new cell phone delivered today ( Read more... )

When I bought my car, I went ahead and sprang for LoJack. It was the first car I ever bought, so I was feeling extra cautious ( Read more... )

Backing up strategies ( Read more... )

Macintosh does lovely design, and they're clearly enamored of the whole sleek-brushed-metal thing...

...but I just sliced open my finger on the edge of my monitor. I am bleeding. WTF, Apple? It's not enough that you make me dumber with every new iteration of your operating system geared for the lowest-common-denominator idiot consumer, now you ( Read more... )

I'm having a strange dual reaction to the progress of technology these days.

A bunch of folks on my f'list have linked to this article about how a pile of new, buried pyramids have been found in Egypt thanks to satellite imaging. The archaeologists have found Tanis (does it have a map room?), and evidence that ancient Egyptian civilization covered ( Read more... )

My one-month-in-use keyboard is completely spazzing out. I suspect it's because it's so bloody damp in here--it's exactly the behavior of a keyboard that has had liquid spilled on it.

Except there has been no spilling. It's just damp as damp can possibly be without coalescing into actual fog.

Articles such as this one in the NY Times kind of annoy me. (Also, apologies to anyone reading this after March 28, when the Times goes to a subscription model ( Read more... )

I just ordered my first new-new computer since my very first one ( Read more... )

When I was five years old, during the first time that bell-bottoms were in fashion, I decided to play on my parents' typewriter. They had an electric typewriter of good quality, but I don't recall what sort. (I do recall that it was blue and white.) I don't know why they had it, because I don't think my mother ever used it, and my dad couldn't type ( Read more... )

Three minutes alone in a room with the lead interface architect of Microsoft Word, and a sock filled with rolled quarters. That's all I ask.