Posts Tagged ‘Mac

My new MacBook arrived two weeks ago, and I felt that I had spent enough time with it to actually make some useful comments on the good, the bad, and the headbangingly frustrating.
The Finder
Dear Apple: Shoot the Finder development team. Thanks.
I have switched to Path Finder as a Finder replacement. Truly the finder is one [...]

There is clear dissatisfaction with the current state of marketing among the social media mavens.

Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures are looking for companies to invest in to take advantage of this.
BuzzLogic releases their conversational ad service.
The Inquisitr moves from AdSense to Technorati Media, indicating a potential shift at b5 Media.
Lookery is providing demographic information [...]

The post says it all

Burmese Refugee Children Love Macs from Joyce Kim on Vimeo.

Look ma: Macy’s is already too busy.

Yeah. Let the fun begin.
Technorati: GrabPERF “Black Friday” “Web Performance” “Macy’s”

A colleague of mine suggested that the Tour de France give up all pretense of being drug free, and embrace the performance-enhancing image it has developed so carefully over the last quarter century.
His idea was to have the racing teams sponsored by the major pharmaceutical firms, pitting one performance-enhancing approach against another, in a competition [...]

This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]

MacYawn
Now, shut up and go back to the interesting stuff.
Thank you.

Apparently there’s quite the blizzard pounding Colorado. [here and here]
And your point is…?
Remember:

You live at 3,000 ft and above
Those big rocky and pointy things in your backyard? They might have some effect on the weather
It’s Winter…well, officially tomorrow

I gew up in the Rocky Mountain Trench. After November 1st, it’s not if, it’s when the snow [...]

As a teenager growing up in a very small logging town in the BC interior, I had what could be politely termed unusual musical tastes, especially for the mainstream, heavy-metal, hair-banging kids I hung around with.
But when I was alone with my walkman, I listened to the real geniuses of 80s rock: REM, Kate Bush, [...]

Citizens Bank Outage

In: Life| RANTING

10 Oct 2006

Citizens Bank Outage
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.

Some days, your bank needs to get smacked around.
This is one of those times.
What is going on?


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