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The curse of the early adopter

Oh boy. I am so tired of computer problems. I am writing this blog entry from my wife’s MacBook, as I am currently without a working computer. Blogging about my computer problems is a bit cathartic. You may remember my entry from early October entitled, “My four-day ordeal with 10.4.8.” I spent 28 hours over [...]


My four-day ordeal with 10.4.8

Since Saturday morning, I have been without a computer. I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mac OS X 10.4.8 and after rebooting, I had a kernel panic. I rebooted again – another kernel panic. I was hosed. During the weekend, I tried various reinstallation techniques, but my install DVD kept hanging at various parts of [...]


I need your vote!

It’s voting time for My Dream App. You are allowed to vote for up to 14 of the 24 ideas on the list. First round voting ends on Friday and the bottom six will be eliminated before entering the next round. I need your vote. That is, if course, if you like my idea.
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I have a dream…app.

Three weeks ago , I visited My Dream App, and submitted three application ideas for the contest. Over 2,700 ideas were submitted by a thousand or more people from around the world and I was one of lucky 24 to be selected as a finalist. My selection was announced today. From here on out, there [...]


Why did Apple pre-announce the iTV?

If you don’t know what the Apple ‘iTV’ is, take a look at the Engadget posting: Hands-on with the Apple iTV prototype.
Steve Jobs at the ‘It’s Showtime’ event: “But there is one last thing that I’d like to talk to you about today. Now this next thing is a little unusual for us. It’s a [...]


Even Lawrence Lessig Gets the Blues

I was searching for an airplane power adapter to use with my MacBook Pro, and lo and behold, I ran across this discussion thread on the Apple Support Discussions – “the problem with airplanes and the MBP“. Dr. Lessig, open source visionary and all-around cool guy is having the same problem as I. I’m telling [...]


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6 April 2006 @ 8pm

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Apple Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation

The last two days have been instrumental for Intel Mac power users, thanks to Apple Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation. While Apple may be getting the media attention for Boot Camp, for me it’s far less interesting than Parallels’ announcement.
I learned about Apple’s release of Boot Camp from the show floor of LinuxWorld Boston. William [...]