rants. raves. random information.
Posted in Entertainment, Personal on Aug 3rd, 2008
While driving home from a party the other night I was reminded why I don’t like regular radio in Pittsburgh. The song Morning Train (9-5) by Sheena Easton came on and we were both laughing about how long it had been since we heard that one. Then we quickly realized how awful it [...]
Posted in Apple, Personal, Technology on Jul 18th, 2008
I just spent the better part of the night trying to get data back from a friend’s MacBook that had a failed hard drive. Those of you that have had this happen while running Apple’s OS X may know the sickening feeling you get when all you see when you start up is an [...]
I have always relied on the design of others for my Wordpress site. There are some really, really talented people out there and I’ve been very happy with the themes they provide. But I decided to play with CSS a little and modified a Theme I found that happened to be a modification of someone [...]
Posted in Apple, Personal, Technology, Travel on May 3rd, 2008
I love reading Robert X. Cringely’s articles. Always have. He’s definitely one of my favorite writers. In his most recent posting he states that Apple appears to be looking to unload its Pro applications in preparation to clear the way to acquire Adobe. Interesting idea, but I’m not sure I agree as Apple’s Pro apps [...]
I’ve owned a 2007 VW Passat for the last 10 months that typically gets anywhere from 350-370 miles on a tank of gas. With gas prices getting higher and higher I decided to try to drive a little more “gently,” meaning less aggressive starts at lights and stop signs, a little slower on the interstate, [...]
Posted in Family, Personal, Technology, Travel on Apr 25th, 2008
First, Colorado Springs is absolutely beautiful. I’m out here for an HP Executive Briefing that went very, very well and the place is just amazing. We’ve definitely added this place to our short list for future vacations. I wish I had brought a decent camera as the one on my Treo700wx is as close to [...]
Posted in Personal on Apr 13th, 2008
I noticed when shopping this weekend at Kohl’s that it is not very easy to find clothes without some kind of advertising. TShirts all have company’s names on them: jackets, sweat suits, even some pants have names or logos on them. So what’s the big deal?
Well, usually companies pay to advertise - magazine, billboards, movie [...]
Since VMWare Fusion has worked out so well, I was finally able to get rid of the last remaining Microsoft Windows computer in our house by installing WindowsXP on our shiny 20″ iMac. We still need Windows for Quicken since the Mac version of Quicken is not even close to the Windows verion and can’t [...]
Most people tend to think of the calendar year as January through December. Around here we don’t use the standard calendar and instead our year goes something like this…
New Year’s Day. Say goodbye to our favorite foods. Diet starts tomorrow
Valentine’s Day - Chocolate season
Girl Scout Cookie Season - speaks for itself
Easter - Chocolate and peeps [...]
Posted in Apple, Entertainment, Personal on Feb 4th, 2008
I was picking up some new music for an upcoming trip when I thought I’d look at the Amazon.com MP3 Download store. I’ve done 100% of my music purchasing on iTunes for the last few years because it is just so easy the way things are integrated with my iPods. I was surprised to see [...]