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When I heard about the fire at the Cosmopolitan on the Canal apartments last Thursday morning, my first thought was “[it was arson][1]”. (Investigations have just announced that is the finding.) My second thought was that in this down economy, everyone is hurting, and someone wanted out of the huge luxury condo project. We’ll see […]
Apparently, there is no way to directly run the new iMovie ’09 on a PowerPC G4 processor. (Not that I would blame them, since even the good G4s are fairly slow by today’s standard, and Apple wants to keep up a level of satisfaction with their products.) Anyway, [there is a work-around available](http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090130074400511) if you […]
When asked if I would be interested in pursing a opportunity to work on an overseas project (3 weeks in country, 3 weeks at home, with a projection of 2 or 3 trips), I replied in a manner which would make [Gilbert and Sullivan][1] proud: > I am not adverse to further investigation of this […]
If March Madness can be seen as a religious experience, then my [alma mater][0] was just crowned the King of Kings. The number one #1 seed. But this weekend there was a heck of a lot of talk about how the [Big East][1] wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. And how, no, […]
A while back I thought it would be a good idea to list the sites I tend to look at every morning—my morning read. Then, or so the thought went, if I couldn’t think of a good description of why I read the site, I could take it out of my list and not have […]
I have hated [Quicken](http://quicken.com/) for a long time. (In fact, my [third post here][1], was a rant about the 2004 version beta test ending before any real changes had been made or bugs reported being fixed. And that was the second beta test cycle I had been a part of.) The Mac version of Quicken […]
If you ever have an doubts as to why [Comcast][1] is evil, check out the latest update to the terms of service: _Customer equipment consists of software or services that you elect to use in connection with the Services or [Comcast][1] Equipment._ Anything that you connect to the [Comcast][1] equipment is considered customer equipment. (Fair […]
As a sort of making small talk at work, I usually ask some form of “how’s it going” to at least half a dozen people a day. THen I got the bright idea of writing the responses down. I think they can tell you a lot about a person. So, here they are. The answers […]
There was a [Consumerist][0] article talking about the real cost of a cell phone. [Are You Actually Paying More Than $3 A Minute To Use Your Cellphone?][1] looked at an article (which seemed to discount all of the discounts) that found some people are paying $3 a minute for their cell coverage. This got me […]
I’m starting to think that [Google][0] can read my mind. I told it I wanted to search for “[hoem epot][1]” and it figured out what I actually meant and made the link I actually wanted the first one one the page. How much better can you get? Of course, along this same lines, if you […]