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Aug 9, 2005: I like the way Jon thinks Heather: Just ask Jon who tonight put a rubber tarantula underneath the bag of ravioli I was about to dump into a pot of boiling water. I BOUGHT THE …

Aug 5, 2005: Denigrating military service

I felt "The Patriot Perspective" from today's Federalist Patriot (PDF file) was worth reprinting.

Aug 5, 2005: Unreleased OS already has virus This must be one of those things that keeps Bill Gates up at night. Windows Vista, the next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, already …

Aug 5, 2005: Fundamentally Asinine Administration If you had any doubts that the FAA's (see post title for definition of acronym) flight regulations regarding anti-terrorism were completely insane, …

Aug 5, 2005: CBS, Race the Blogger Twins! Damien and his brother Cameron are attempting to get on The Amazing Race. They have a noble purpose for this endeavor, having nothing to do with fame …

Aug 3, 2005: Pinkie D's Anyone else out there annoyed by the pinkie commercials being run by McDonald's for their new "premium" chicken sandwiches? Does anyone actually eat …

Aug 3, 2005: Donations for Niger World Vision is seeking donations to aid folks in Niger who are victims of the recent drought and locust swarms which have devastated crops in the …

Aug 3, 2005: Ballpark tours If you're a huge baseball fan (Tom) with some time to kill, FranX points us to BallparkTour.com and Ballparks of Baseball. I'm sure it's due to being …

Aug 3, 2005: Gmail on Mailsmith I finally attempted, once again, to set up POP access to my Gmail account in Mailsmith. I used all of the settings found on the Configuring other mail …

Aug 2, 2005: A blogiversary This past Monday marked the 5th anniversary of my first-ever blog post. Egads.

Aug 1, 2005: ATPM 11.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Kudos to Lee on the cover art. We were in dire need of cover art, and he stepped …

Aug 1, 2005: Positively annoying I have a new reason to develop a more positive attitude. "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to …

Aug 1, 2005: Trident tradition While reading the moving story of SEALs laying to rest one of their own, I learned something new about the Navy's special operations unit. It has …

Aug 1, 2005: Good advice Don't mess with Texas. Now you can buy gear and support the anti-litter campaign with the awesome slogan.

Jul 31, 2005: Magic Pot of Jobs Tiffany has a new project. If I could only get a recruiter as good as her here in DFW...

Jul 31, 2005: Too many miles Have more frequent-flyer miles than you know what to do with? Well, transfer some to me! I've got to get back to the islands! Seriously, if you have …

Jul 31, 2005: He made a guy cry? Nick Saban, former head coach of the national champion LSU Tigers football team, has a reputation of being a tough coach. He's tough on his players …

Jul 31, 2005: Cable modem, anyone? For sale: Toshiba PCX1100U cable "modem," with one 10BaseT port, one USB port, one 12V DC port, and one co-axial, aka, cable, port. Item is 3.5 years …

Jul 31, 2005: War, what is it good for? Well, victory for one thing, as Mark Steyn points out. [via Hugh]

Jul 30, 2005: We call them like we see them Hugh Hewitt: If you didn't hear Nancy Pelosi's press conference yesterday, you missed the pure sound of a loser who will never be anything but a …

Jul 30, 2005: We'll do anonymity, but not transparency So a journalist from the Washington Post calls Hugh Hewitt, asking for an interview. Sure, replies Hugh. But it has to be on the air, live. Journalist …

Jul 30, 2005: Windows backup recommendations Dear readers, I am seeking a personal backup solution for Windows XP that will allow me to back up a user folder to CD. Preferably cheap, preferably …

Jul 29, 2005: Are you sleeping? Tony Blair, British Prime Minister: "September 11 for me was a wake up call. Do you know what I think the problem is? That a lot of the world woke up …

Jul 29, 2005: Which diet Coke is which Diet Coke Merlin’s del.icio.us page points to this explanation by Leslie on the different make-ups of the different diet sodas now available from …

Jul 29, 2005: Technorati Mobile For those among us who are Technorati fiends, they have announced a mobile verison. I love the succinct URI.

Jul 29, 2005: The Long War or the Short Surrender

This is the third and final part of a series on national security run in the pages of The Federalist Patriot. This part can be found in today's issue …

Jul 29, 2005: The new Phischphone So earlier this week, I decided I had had enough. The Sony Ericsson T616 was obviously having issues with its Bluetooth hardware, as it continued to …

Jul 28, 2005: Howard Dean is on drugs How can anyone, including the Kool-Aid drinkers on the Left, honestly take Howard Dean seriously when he says tripe like this? "The president and his …

Jul 28, 2005: Betting on Thomas Yes, parents, that Thomas. It went something like this: Mrs. Phisch: "Who are the blue engines? Thomas, Henry, and Edward?" Me: "No, Gordon's blue. …

Jul 28, 2005: You And Me The womenfolk certainly have a way of making us insane--in a good way--don't they, fellas? "You and Me" - Lifehouse What day is it, and in what month …

Jul 28, 2005: We're not allowed to have this why? So next year's Civic for the States is ho-hum, but the European version of the 2006 Honda Civic kills. The Euro-Civic has the Si-inspired …

Jul 27, 2005: When a serial number really isn't I'm installing a new hard drive in my wife's PC, to replace the 5+ year-old that has died. I dutifully noted the part number and serial number for …

Jul 27, 2005: Our modern hubris Senator Rick Santorum, (R-PA): A generation ago, liberals figured out something that most conservatives couldn't have dreamed of in their worst …

Jul 26, 2005: Jeff is bored Jeff Harrell: People from time zones west of here should iChat me immediately. Especially if they’re twentysomething women who like to tell …

Jul 26, 2005: Conservative vs liberal approach to law Star Parker: The characterizations we most commonly hear in contrasting liberal and conservative judges tend to use phrases such as "activism" vs. …

Jul 26, 2005: A terabyte for less than a grand OWC announced today it is now offering 1 Terabyte (TB) of RAID storage for $979.99. Wow.

Jul 25, 2005: Shreddin' ATPM staffers lead glamourous lives, let me tell you. When we're not unemployed (moi), running our own businesses (Michael and Evan), or working for …

Jul 24, 2005: Arlo's revenge What do you do when you perceive a major computer company has totally ripped off your software and tout their version as a major feature of their …

Jul 24, 2005: Still useful From Merlin's del.icio.us page comes a link to a Levenger 3x5 card How-To. The brief history of the index card is interesting, but I really enjoyed …

Jul 23, 2005: Providing the tools for homeland defense

Yesterday's Federalist Patriot (PDF file) contained part two of the series on U.S. National Security. Titled "Homeland Defense," it discusses the …

Jul 23, 2005: Why bother with CC? Unlike Jeff, I don't hate Creative Commons. I just don't see the point. I believe we're much better off working with our legislators to getting …

Jul 22, 2005: Punny stock Overheard on the Dow Jones Stock Report, on WRR, just a few moments ago: "Maidenform is getting some firm support from investors..."

Jul 22, 2005: No Danny Boy In an ADD moment late last night, I was flipping channels, and came across The Great White Hype. Having seen it on HBO or one of the other movie …

Jul 21, 2005: Who's really driving the wedge Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., in today's Political Diary: Based on scanty headlines, today's disruptions in London suggest somebody may be trying to …

Jul 21, 2005: Hipster, meet Zipster Inspired by Merlin's Hipster, Christian "Mekkaniak" Eriksson transforms a standard Zip disk case in to the Zipster.

Jul 21, 2005: Retro-chic RV The T@B. Teardrop-shaped, aluminum body. Too small for our family, and we're not in the market, anyway, but I thought it was nice looking.

Jul 21, 2005: Wherefore art thou, Bluetooth headset? Great. After multiple usage so far today, it would appear the aforementioned problems with my Akono headset were not the fault of the headset at all. …

Jul 21, 2005: There is no bikini-waxer/client privilege. Heather cracks me up.

Jul 21, 2005: Types of Windows users and I wish we'd bought a Mac Mini Wil Shipley, in a DrunkenBlog interview: The two types of Windows users I've identified at my café are: a. I use Windows to run Word and Excel …

Jul 20, 2005: Why we hate you Mark Yost, St. Paul Pioneer Press: I'm reminded of why I became a journalist by the horribly slanted reporting coming out of Iraq. Not much has …

Jul 19, 2005: Bringing or Taking? Because I know it is something Tiffany can relate to, here's Brian Hampton: This just in: bring and take are not synonyms. I shamefully confess I …

Jul 19, 2005: Throwing down the gauntlet Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrats and the rest of the Left, the President stuck to his guns and nominated John Roberts to …

Jul 18, 2005: Jeep CheroH3 I just saw a commercial for the new Hummer really-really-a-waste-of-money H3. Does anyone else think that, in profile, this looks like a GM knockoff …

Jul 18, 2005: Where's the ACLU when you need them? Reader Reply, The Federalist Patriot, Monday, 18 July 2005, No. 05-29 Brief: "Not only are we feeding these Jihadis well, but the U.S. is currently …

Jul 18, 2005: Teaching the Constitution Cal Thomas: The president and those who wish to see the Constitution restored to its "original intent" need to reteach it if they are to overcome the …

Jul 18, 2005: WallyPower 118 redux Back in April, I blogged the WallyPower 118, beating the boys from Uncrate by, well, by a lot. Granted, Uncrate's only been online since June 11th. …

Jul 18, 2005: iChatting

Jul 18, 2005: Sony Ericsson rocks More than a month ago, my Sony Ericsson Akono HBH-602 Bluetooth Headset stopped syncing with my T616. I could get it to connect to the phone via …

Jul 18, 2005: Cause and effect: Defining the enemy 2 Cal Thomas: It matters little that "the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists," to quote a familiar Western mantra. It matters a great …

Jul 17, 2005: Defining the enemy

The Federalist Patriot started a three-part series in this past Friday's Digest (PDF file) titled "U.S. National Security: Imminent Threats." I feel …

Jul 17, 2005: Channeling the Bear Every time Jack Nicklaus plays a tournament for the last time, Tiger wins the event.

Jul 17, 2005: Thoughts on a podcast I will confess: I have not only thought about putting together my own podcast, but fantasized about what I would say, the music I would play, etc., …

Jul 17, 2005: iCal Day Today is iCal Day. Like Erik, I use iCal for my scheduling needs, because right now anything else is overkill. Plus, it syncs easily with my iPod and …

Jul 17, 2005: Dear Moderate Muslims Doug Giles poses the questions to so-called moderate Muslims that so many of us, perhaps afraid of being politically incorrect, are afraid to ask: As …

Jul 16, 2005: Crap is crap "The idea is that crap is crap and we’re not going to distinguish between the degrees." --ATPM Publisher Michael Tsai, to one of our writers on …

Jul 15, 2005: XHTML templates to jump start design Kevin Hale of Particletree offers up some XHTML + CSS templates so you can get your next web design project quickly off the ground. Already in my …

Jul 15, 2005: Backpack widget Well, a widget I can actually get some use out of... Chipt Productions has released a widget for the Backpack service from 37signals. Darned if Gruber …

Jul 15, 2005: About those Club Gitmo detainees Christopher Orlet has a reminder on just who these detainees are, for the benefit of those in America with long-term memory issues. These are the …

Jul 15, 2005: Winning hearts and minds John Tabin: Support, among Muslims, for suicide bombing against civilians has also faded. (Only Muslims were asked this question.) The percentage …

Jul 14, 2005: Friendly neighborhood Copmaro Note to self: on the highways around the DFW metroplex, if you spot the Narco Camaro, it is not your friend...

Jul 13, 2005: Real-life zombie attack This has to be the funniest thing I've read all day. Update, 7/14: What do zombies do after a hard day of causing panic? They go to McDonald's, of …

Jul 13, 2005: A conversation I never thought I would have Actually, it's not about a Slurpee.

Jul 13, 2005: How, exactly, am I supposed to obtain experience if...? Earlier today, I applied for an IT&S Manager position with a local hospital. Late this afternoon, I received a reply: Christopher, I appreciate …

Jul 12, 2005: Eric rocks I have been lamenting the fact that I did not go with a Flickr Pro account a few months back, instead opting for another service. At the time, it was …

Jul 12, 2005: Someone is just asking for a lawsuit Spotted today on the Dallas Craigslist job boards: "Attractive Female Office Needed"

Jul 12, 2005: iSync 2.1 breaks T616 synchronization, sort of After reading Colin Robertson's report that his Sony Ericsson T616 would no longer sync with his PowerBook via iSync, I set out to test this myself, …

Jul 12, 2005: Reverse DNS Lookup Not sure where I found this, as it was jotted on a card in my Hipster. A free service, you can perform reverse DNS lookups. If you don't know what DNS …

Jul 11, 2005: Best wishes It really helps, when you have events set on a certain day, and you don't look at your calendar every day, to set reminders. So I missed Rick's …

Jul 11, 2005: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Only it's on the ukelele. Tom sent this to me via IM, and I see he's blogged it as well. It's really quite mesmerizing. This guy is good.

Jul 11, 2005: Retrophisch Road Rule No. 1 When making a right-hand turn at an intersection where you have a green light, it is not necessary to come to a full and complete stop before turning, …

Jul 10, 2005: The 100-post barrier I happened to look at my archives page a moment ago, and noticed that in any given month, I have never cracked triple digits with the number of …

Jul 10, 2005: FedEx clock is slow No, I'm not referring to a particular clock FedEx has. I'm referring to this amusing time diversion, the graphics of which fail to keep pace with …

Jul 10, 2005: Policies toward terrorism Rich Tucker: So what’s amazing isn’t the number of attacks we’ve lived through -- it’s the lack of attacks. September, 2001. …

Jul 10, 2005: The 2006 Civic Please understand that the following comment is coming from a Honda convert. My wife drives an Odyssey minivan. I drive the Pilot SUV. I plan on my …

Jul 9, 2005: Jihadists-R-Us Doug Giles: As eight of the most powerful world leaders were convening in Gleneagles, Scotland for the G8 Summit trying to figure out how to battle …

Jul 9, 2005: Nissan to take on Porsche? I read this story with some amusement. If Nissan is serious about competing with Porsche, maybe they can start with modding up their interiors so it …

Jul 9, 2005: The real extremists David Limbaugh reveals the Democrats' plan to paint constitutional originalists as "extremists": They are hoping to convince the people that any …

Jul 9, 2005: A majority is a majority is a majority There is an idiom in the sports world that "a win is a win is a win." In other words, it doesn't matter if you've beaten your opponent by 50 points or …

Jul 9, 2005: Tom turns two Actually, his blog is two years old. Happy Blogiversary, my friend!

Jul 8, 2005: Supreme consequences

There is no greater threat to American liberty and the future of the Republic than a central government not bound by the limits and constraints placed …

Jul 8, 2005: Fiber optic installation attempt: Day Two - Success! The installation technician arrived at approximately 10:45 AM, with, as promised, a co-worker in tow. An hour and fifteen minutes later, with still no …

Jul 8, 2005: The "We created al-Qaeda" myth Gerard Baker: The idea that al-Qaeda was no threat until we created it does not stand the slightest scrutiny of events in the 1990s — from the …

Jul 7, 2005: Yeah, here's a match made in Heaven Is it just me, or is this a marketing sponsorship that's a wee bit out of whack?

Jul 7, 2005: Fiber optic installation attempt: Day 1 Installation of our new Verizon FiOS service was to take place today (Thursday, the 7th) between the hours of 1 and 5 P.M. When the hour of three …

Jul 7, 2005: Standing stronger Jeff Harrell: On a day like today, when al-Qaida has struck a hammer blow against the West and hurt us badly, of course it seems tempting for us to …

Jul 7, 2005: Standing strong Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London: This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime …

Jul 6, 2005: Muslim tolerance If you want to track how tolerant the "Religion of Peace" is, I would suggest one way is to subscribe to the free e-mail updates from the Voice of the …

Jul 6, 2005: Herein lies the problem Nancy Pelosi, on the Kelo decision: It is a decision of the Supreme Court. If Congress wants to change it, it will require legislation of a level of …

Jul 6, 2005: Apparently, I'm a dangerous citizen "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very …

Jul 5, 2005: Geldof and friends miss the mark I am quite proud to say I did not watch a single second of the incredibly vapid, colossal waste of time and public airwaves that was Live 8. Rick …

Jul 5, 2005: We, the Democratic Party, want it both ways Senator Ted Kennedy, 1981: "It is offensive to suggest that a potential justice of the Supreme Court must pass some presumed test of judicial …

Jul 5, 2005: Staying the course Perhaps before she shows precisely how much she's gone off the deep end, Helen Thomas should actually talk with the families and loved ones of …

Jul 5, 2005: A Brit on Bush "In person Mr. Bush is so far removed from the caricature of the dim, war-mongering Texas cowboy of global popular repute that it shakes one's faith …

Jul 5, 2005: Grab a drop cloth and try not to get spattered Like Jeff, I would like to see the Democratic Party come back to the roots it showed during the days of Truman and Kennedy, with regard to national …

Jul 5, 2005: Librarian action figure Noting that Dan provides the main link to Archie McPhee, I can tell you I have seen, in person, the Librarian Action Figure. The toy store on the town …

Jul 5, 2005: Browsing this site I echo Jeff's sentiments. In Windows-world, I recommend Firefox; for the Mac, Safari or Camino.

Jul 5, 2005: About Lance I am pretty ambivalent with regard to Lance Armstrong. Like a majority of Americans, I'm not a gearhead, unlike my pal Dan (who needs a new blog …

Jul 4, 2005: TypeKey changes Six Apart announced an update to the TypeKey service, one of which is that you can now choose to remain logged in to TypeKey for up to 2 weeks. For …

Jul 4, 2005: Independence Day prayer Thank you, David.

Jul 4, 2005: What July Fourth Means to Me For one who was born and grew up in the small towns of the Midwest, there is a special kind of nostalgia about the Fourth of July. Somewhere in our …

Jul 4, 2005: Happy Independence Day Today is the fourth of July, not the Fourth of July. That is not the holiday we celebrate in the United States today. Today we celebrate our …

Jul 2, 2005: Fiber line laid This past Wednesday, a pair of Verizon FiOS line crews were at the house, physically laying the line from the switch at the street up to a new …

Jul 2, 2005: ATPM 11.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. The issue kicks off with some amusing, original artwork from former staffer Grant …

Jun 28, 2005: A Founding Father on property "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public …

Jun 28, 2005: Blinded with the Bush-hatred Jeff calls it: The conclusion is as heart-breaking as it is unavoidable: There are people out there —- reporters, pundits, Senators and …

Jun 28, 2005: Are they reading the same Constitution as the rest of us? Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm too simple-minded to get it. Perhaps because I didn't go to law school, spend years on a judicial bench, and have half a …

Jun 28, 2005: Tiger snuggles up to OfficeJet Thanks to a tip from a MacInTouch reader, my PowerBook, running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1, is successfully printing to my HP OfficeJet d145 again. It was …

Jun 25, 2005: The Last Disciple Hank Hanegraaff, of the "Bible Answer Man" radio show, and author Sigmund Brouwer have teamed up to write The Last Disciple, a novel about …

Jun 24, 2005: Mobile CD Lookup Jon has provided a great way to look up CD info on Amazon. I've already got it bookmarked in my mobile.

Jun 24, 2005: Netflix freaking The Phisch Bowl™ is now a Netflix-renting household. Friends of the Phisch should send us invitations to be added to their Friends lists. We …

Jun 23, 2005: Fiber + phone = July 7 It is confirmed: a Verizon technician will be out on the afternoon of Thursday, the 7th of July, to install the required components for high-speed, …

Jun 20, 2005: DropDMG 2.6.1 Michael announces the release of DropDMG 2.6.1. This update of the easy-to-use disk image creation tool adds support for bzip2-compressed disk images, …

Jun 19, 2005: When editing goes wrong One of the local semi-independent stations is showing Ronin this evening. Now, being one of my favorite action movies, because it is a thinking-man's …

Jun 19, 2005: Rumor sites still costing Apple money Matt D. and I don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things outside the realm of technology. But when it comes to an intense loathing of the rumor sites, …

Jun 19, 2005: Making health care more competitive, and cheaper Jeff Jacoby: Prices are advertised everywhere. From newspapers to billboards to websites, we are forever being told how much things cost. Want to buy …

Jun 19, 2005: Happy Fathers' Day To fellow dads out there, my best wishes for a happy Fathers' Day. There are two men I need to specifically mention: Bucky, thank you for raising the …

Jun 19, 2005: Mac hacking A dual reading selection today, mostly because both are sitting next to me, waiting to ship up New England way to my friend Rich, and both deal with …

Jun 18, 2005: Now I just need to find money to give to a broker There are many reasons why I read Jeff's blog as often as possible. Brother, I need to buy you a beer some time. Does that mean that Apple will never …

Jun 18, 2005: State of the Union Brad Thor delivers another Scot Harvath adventure in State of the Union, as the former Navy SEAL and ex-Secret Service agent is pitted against a Cold …

Jun 18, 2005: Retrophisch Read I started a static list of books I had read on my old blog. As the list grew, I thought about starting a separate blog just for the books, even going …

Jun 17, 2005: What laws should be Politicians of all stripes, take note: "Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of …

Jun 16, 2005: Rethinking the killing of public broadcasting Since my post on the subject, I've been thinking of Tom's comments, and watching as TiVo snags Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, and Clifford …

Jun 16, 2005: Priorities Lee has his first meal, first tv viewing, and first 'net access in his new place. Congrats on becoming a homeowner, compadre!

Jun 16, 2005: Return of the Wolf Throughout history, the wolf has often been the target of misguided hatred on the part of humans. Personally, I love wolves, the largest of the canine …

Jun 16, 2005: And the left wants government-managed health care? Part II Detailing the woes GM is facing in providing health care to only 160,000 current workers, but 1 million others, Jeff Jacoby provides a microcosm of …

Jun 15, 2005: And the left wants government-managed health care? John Stossel: But today, people expect insurance to cover everything, even routine things like eyeglasses and dental treatment. This is a terrible …

Jun 15, 2005: Shapiro's latest Ben Shapiro: Social liberalism seeks to promote a "live and let live" society wherein all types of deviant behavior is tolerated and accepted. Those …

Jun 14, 2005: Killing bureaucracy Senator Tom Coburn (OK-R): One of the greatest impediments to the president's vision of an ownership society is an inside-the-Beltway entitlement …

Jun 14, 2005: Do we really care? It is a sad, sad, sad indictment of our American culture when the trial verdict of a washed-up has-been, who hasn't put out a decent record in more …

Jun 12, 2005: On the brink Click on the image to see a short movie of the Lower Falls of Yellowstone in action. The hike down to the brink was only three-eighths of a mile, but …

Jun 12, 2005: Joys of parenthood Matthew Baldwin: That's right: fifteen months old and my son has already McGuyvered up a rocket launcher. finslippy: But why do we resist, you ask? …

Jun 12, 2005: Reason #3,147 to buy a summer home in Jackson Hole after we win the lottery Less than 16 hours after arriving back in DFW from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, both the missus and I had stuffy noses, no doubt driven by allergens. …

Jun 8, 2005: Tiger baseball ends 2005 season 40-22 The Rice Owls ended the LSU baseball team's season this past weekend, coming from behind to beat the Tigers 5-4. So, no trip to Omaha this year for …

Jun 8, 2005: On the Apple-to-use-Intel news Yeah, right. Like I care this week about the biggest news in the computing industry quite possibly ever. Click the picture to see a larger version. …

Jun 3, 2005: Tigers crush Marist LSU fell behind early, allowing four runs in the top of the first inning today against Marist. The twelfth-ranked Tigers would only allow one more run …

Jun 3, 2005: Tiger Sync does suck I wholeheartedly agree with Dave Golden that syncing in Tiger is a step back from what it once was in Panther. Before, if I wanted to sync my …

Jun 2, 2005: On school choice David Salisbury: Whenever school choice programs are proposed in the United States, they face fierce opposition from critics who claim that school …

Jun 1, 2005: Productivity's Victoria's Secret?

Jun 1, 2005: An Apple-Yahoo-Google future? Robert X. Cringely: So Apple takes over video and movies while Yahoo threatens with a low-priced music subscription service and Google threatens to …

Jun 1, 2005: Survivor: Hoth Lawson and I agree that "Survivor: Hoth" would be one reality show we'd tune in to. Me: "Your challenge today, castaways, will be to drag the tauntaun …

Jun 1, 2005: Recommendations, allow me to introduce Wish List Why is it that any time I look at the recommendations Amazon puts forth for my viewing pleasure, half of them are already on my wish list? You would …

Jun 1, 2005: ATPM 11.06 The June issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available, and apparently Rob was in a rhyming mood when he wrote the Welcome. Ellyn looks at …

Jun 1, 2005: Tiger baseball in the post-season I haven't blogged much about the LSU baseball team this year, mainly because I've been focusing more on the local Texas Rangers when it comes to the …

May 31, 2005: Whither goes federalism? David Boaz, of the libertarian Cato Institute, notes that the current incarnation of the Republican Party has turned its back on federalism, …

May 31, 2005: Right investing I've been reading this fascinating essay by James, Piereson, "Investing in the Right Ideas." His account of how the Democratic Party, once led by …

May 30, 2005: Memorial Day Please take a moment today, amidst your cook-outs and shopping, to pause for a minute or so, to honestly and truly meditate on, and remember, those …

May 27, 2005: Give me a boost, will ya? It's so nice to know that when my cat came over minutes ago, rubbing up against my legs, purring, then pushing his head in to my hand when I dropped …

May 27, 2005: Judicial term limits Jeff Jacoby makes a good case for judicial term limits. Can we please do this for members of Congress while we're at it?

May 26, 2005: Foreign trespassers Ron Olliff: '[I]llegal immigration' is an oxymoron. If it's immigration, it is not illegal, and if they are here illegally they are not immigrants, …

May 25, 2005: What happens in Baghdad, stays in Baghdad Can Iraq be the next adult playground? I wonder if they'd ever be able to convince Celine to move... [Via Best of the Web.]

May 25, 2005: Can we find something other than [g]Nats? So I'm hearing that the shortened name for the Washington Nationals is "Nats." Does this not strike anyone else with negative connotations? It has …

May 25, 2005: Filibuster schmilibuster Jeff laments the fact that a compromise used to be a good thing. My response has always been, "It depends on the particular compromise." The …

May 24, 2005: About that filibuster agreement I think today's Cox & Forkum amply shows how worthless the fourteen-Senator filibuster agreement will ultimately prove to be.

May 24, 2005: Safari 2 window positioning I have noticed that Safari 2 likes to launch and not remember where its last window position was. I like my application windows to "stick" to the …

May 23, 2005: Great, so now whom do I vote for? I'll have to look in to the Constitution Party, or something, because it's official: the Republicans have no spine.

May 22, 2005: Killing "public" broadcasting Paul Jacob: There is bias in news reporting and there always will be. That's hardly the problem. The problem is forcing people to pay for the bias …

May 18, 2005: Baton? I don't see a baton Because that so-and-so Tom publicly foisted this meme upon me, and Michael tagged me, too, here goes: Total size of music files on my computer: …

May 17, 2005: Widget fun Two new Dashboard widgets in service tonight: Courtesy of Erik, the Gun Self Defense Counter, which uses a formula developed by Gary Kleck and Marc …

May 17, 2005: Absolutely brilliant Well, we might as well go for the trifecta: Yesterday we wondered what David French's "brilliant answer" was when a Cornell Law School job …

May 17, 2005: Reaction to offense: Muslim vs Christian I'm sorry for another post from Best of the Web, but Taranto and company are simply on today: Still, by way of comparison, recall that three years …

May 17, 2005: The crusading media Today's Best of the Web has what is quite possibly the best explanation of what has gone wrong with the mainstream media over the past forty years. …

May 17, 2005: About those pensions In yesterday's Political Diary, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. reminds us that the recent pension ills at United Airlines are, well, the fault of its employee …

May 12, 2005: Ann Coulter to move to Iraq Radical Left falls over itself volunteering packing help. Soros confirms he will cover all moving expenses. Bill Maher "despondent." News at 11.

May 12, 2005: PETA's Dirty Secret PETA kills animals. I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

May 12, 2005: On the working class Best of the Web Today: What we wonder is: How come it never occurs to liberals or Democrats that the very terms in which they phrase the question are …

May 11, 2005: Programming offshoring - literally The Monster Blog: ...[T]alk about treading in murky waters, here’s one from the reality-trumps-fiction workplace annals: Two entrepreneurs have …

May 10, 2005: Why we fight Guy Cannon: This pretty much says it all.

May 10, 2005: Hope it's just the beta I have to concur with John Gruber's comments regarding the Longhorn beta screenshots. I never thought I'd say this, but if I had to use a PC, at this …

May 5, 2005: Just enjoy the movie Jim Geraghty, via Tom: I’m being warned about the dangers of capitalism from a man who made perhaps more money from merchandising than any …

May 5, 2005: The Cat Rules When did Chuq visit my house? BEDTIME: Always sleep on the human at night so he/she cannot move around. LITTER BOX: When using the litter box, be …

May 4, 2005: How much are you spending on java? John Stossel ran an unscientific, blind taste test of six different brands of coffee, ranging from $12 a pound to $4 a pound. The result was, at least …

May 4, 2005: Let's stop the victimization of the poor Walter E. Williams: Here's my question for you: What are we to make of people who preach pessimism and doom to people -- telling them that they're …

May 4, 2005: Tiger is nirvana Michael Gartenberg: If you spend too much time organizing your stuff or just can't find it, you need to take a close look at Tiger. There's a real …

May 3, 2005: Gladiator to be a reality? Inside Line is reporting the possibility of a four-door, Gladiator-style, Jeep truck that may appear in 2008. My hope is that if Jeep brings a truck …

May 3, 2005: What's your name? Courtesy of Brother Spikey Mace of Loving Kindness, according to the Unitarian Jihad Name Assignment Committee, you may now refer to me as The Gatling …

May 3, 2005: Tied for first So at this past Sunday's game, we learned that Faith Lutheran--the team which handed us our only loss--lost their game earlier in the day. A win on …

May 3, 2005: Where's my copy of Tiger? So rather than futz around with having to mail in a rebate form by ordering from Amazon, I ordered my copy of Mac OS X Tiger from OWC. Having done …

May 3, 2005: Hitler was a leftist So I noticed Tom posted his score on a "Are you a Republican?" meme. With the knowledge that I do lean to the right of center, and have voted mostly …

May 3, 2005: How's that Honda soy? Apparently, the higher-ups at Honda in the mother country love soybeans. A lot.

May 3, 2005: Microsoft fonts still in Tiger John Gruber notes that the Microsoft fonts typically associated with and installed with Internet Explorer are still present in Mac OS X Tiger. Good …

May 2, 2005: ATPM 11.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Ellyn discusses generic vs brand-name, and though she …

Apr 29, 2005: WallyPower 118 Don't let the name fool you. This is the yacht to buy when you hit the jackpot. Just hope the jackpot's big enough for you to hire a crew as well.

Apr 28, 2005: BlackBerry 7100t no like SE Akono If anyone out there figures out how to pair a BlackBerry 7100t with a Sony Ericsson Akono Bluetooth headset, please [let me know …

Apr 28, 2005: Spotlight gotchas Jeff Harrell has a good article on things to keep in mind when using Mac OS X Tiger's new Spotlight.

Apr 28, 2005: North Pole Wi-Fi Intel is responsible for the northernmost wi-fi spot known, with placement approximately 130 kilometers from the North Pole.

Apr 28, 2005: Adobe's markets Gruber sums up quite well my feelings about Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia: Rather than expand into untapped creative markets, Adobe seems …

Apr 25, 2005: We have met the enemy, and he is us So the Toad directed my attention to a rant by Kim du Toit on how the ATF views law-abiding gun owners, in light of quotes from Gerald Nunziato, the …

Apr 24, 2005: Lawson on Locusts Lawson has a blow-by-blow review of CBS's made-for-television Locusts: 2135: Three commercial breaks already and not one Ortho commercial? Someone at …

Apr 24, 2005: Won but lost The team improved to 6-1 today, as we lost to our friends at Flower Mound UMC, 14-10. Yes, that's right, we won, but we lost. FM UMC didn't have …

Apr 24, 2005: Star Wars Aurora No, nothing to do with that wonderful phenomenon in northern night skies, but rather with Alienware's Star Wars special edition Aurora PCs. While no …

Apr 23, 2005: The two doors of the mosque Muslim activist groups like CAIR wonder why a lot of Americans don't trust Muslims. Maybe it's because if everyone knew what was really going on …

Apr 20, 2005: ACLU "observers" aiding illegals, smoking dope WorldNetDaily: Volunteers with the Minuteman Project in Arizona say "legal observers" sent by the ACLU to monitor the citizen border patrol have been …

Apr 18, 2005: What's in the Retrophisch™ Bag Recently, Michael Hyatt revealed what was in his business carry-on, and posed the question to others of what is in their's. So here's the official …

Apr 18, 2005: About that overvalued Euro... Bruce Bawer: ...[A] study by a Swedish research organization, Timbro, which compared the gross domestic products of the 15 European Union members …

Apr 18, 2005: Lorem Scriptsum Whenever I need to generate filler text, I've been using MacLorem. It's a handy little app, it's freeware, and it can generate text in Hawai'ian, …

Apr 18, 2005: WalkAmerica 2005 It's that time of the year again, when I pimp my readers for donations to a worthy cause. At the end of this month, my wife and I will be …

Apr 18, 2005: Does this look like a monopoly to anyone else? Adobe to acquire Macromedia. Whoa.

Apr 18, 2005: But there is no media bias 5 LGF exposes the truth behind the headline.

Apr 17, 2005: On note-taking Michael Hyatt has an excellent look at the art of note-taking. Like Merlin, Mr. Hyatt is a Moleskine aficionado. Maybe it's just me, but I can't see …

Apr 17, 2005: Who's going with me to the midnight show? Being the incredibly lame Star Wars geek that I am--I was six when Episode IV came out, and have been hooked ever since--I have made it a tradition to …

Apr 16, 2005: PATRIOT ACT Pop Quiz Link to a legitimate news story showcasing a civil acts violation in the United States as a result of the PATRIOT ACT. Good luck. To date, not one …

Apr 16, 2005: Did you have a happy Government Income Confiscation Day? Mark Alexander: In the late 19th century, Justice Stephen J. Field noted in an opinion: "If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an …

Apr 16, 2005: Closing the book on the metrosexual revolution Thank God. Doug Giles: Now, for all you Backstreet Boys who are wondering if, if, you are one of these metrosexual males from whom women, men and …

Apr 13, 2005: Reading your Gmail via Atom I've been using GmailStatus to alert me when I get new mail to my Gmail account (anyone [want an …

Apr 13, 2005: Seeking VNC help I've been futzing around with OSXvnc on my Cube and Chicken of the VNC on my PowerBook, and I cannot get the latter to connect to the former. Is …

Apr 13, 2005: What would we do without stock analysts? Today's MDJ provides good background information on Apple's quarterly financial conference call coming later this afternoon. Matt & Company's …

Apr 5, 2005: How to Get into Blogs 101 Stephen O’Grady has assembled a good introductory article for those who may not have gotten in to the blog-reading thing. For those of you …

Apr 5, 2005: Layers? In what yours truly believes is a huge branding mistake, Mac Design is changing it's name to Layers. Ick. Publisher Scott Kelby reasons: The magazine …

Apr 5, 2005: Jefferson on the judiciary "The Constitution...is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please." --Thomas …

Apr 4, 2005: Sacrosanct for me but not for thee Roy Jacobsen: How is it that some people can see the Constitution as a "living, breathing" document, that it must be adapted and interpreted in the …

Apr 4, 2005: Six Apart-GoLive intergration Adobe GoLive CS2 is going to have integrated tools from Six Apart for MovableType and TypePad users. Maybe this will be a way to speed up generation …

Apr 4, 2005: Hipster Dock For those of you with a Hipster PDA like mine, you can now have a docking station. [Via the 43 Folders del.icio.us page.]

Apr 4, 2005: Andrew Manzione, your father is looking for you John Manzione is trying to locate his son Andrew, with whom he has had no contact in 18 years. If you know Andrew, or if for some reason Andrew is …

Apr 4, 2005: Sergeant Paul Ray Smith, United States Army Today President Bush posthumous awarded the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Paul Ray Smith of the U.S. Army. Sergeant Smith, in April of 2003, led a …

Apr 4, 2005: Micro editor for hire? So much for my idea of making a few bucks. This is one reason why he's my best online bud: he won't b.s. me. I guess my copy editing will continue to …

Apr 4, 2005: My infectious meme

Apr 4, 2005: Frank-ly speaking on the Treo 650 Steven Frank is going to have me lusting after the Treo 650 again.

Apr 4, 2005: Our Divine Tribunal Joseph Sobran: The Divine Tribunal -- excuse me, I mean the Supreme Court of the United States, as it's officially known -- has decided, by a 5-to-4 …

Apr 4, 2005: Quote of the day As seen on the Laura Ingraham web site this morning: "At this point I would rather have a right-wing Christian decide my fate than an ACLU member." …

Apr 3, 2005: Swift end to perfect season So the team suffered its first loss of the season today, dropping to 3-1. Against an old competitor, the team collectively couldn't get much going on …

Apr 3, 2005: How our constitutions are supposed to work James Atticus Bowden: Two Republican Florida Senators could have saved Terry Schiavo's life by voting 'yes' to a law. 'The death penalty is an …

Apr 1, 2005: ATPM 11.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn looks at the ongoing Apple trade secret lawsuits, which Wes covers as well. …

Apr 1, 2005: More on the Apple trade secret cases If you're not subscribing to MDJ or MWJ, you're missing out on what is the very best and most comprehensive coverage of the ongoing Apple trade secret …

Apr 1, 2005: The Politics of Silicon Valley Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard has an intriguing look at the politics of Silicon Valley. Hint: incumbents are despised, "disrupters" are loved.

Mar 31, 2005: Take her seriously, but don't panic Peggy Noonan, on Mrs. Clinton seeking the presidency: Republicans--I have been among many--are now in the stage of the Hillary Conversation in which …

Mar 31, 2005: Taking away their shovels Herman Cain: "Congress doesn't act unless there is a crisis," one member of Congress once told me. That axiom is growing more apparent every day. …

Mar 30, 2005: Guarding your privates on campus Mike S. Adams: One FAL member’s monologue follows: "Hello, my name is Mary Man-Hating-Is-Fun. I am 23 years old, and I am what a feminist looks …

Mar 24, 2005: Chris Who? Is there any doubt left that Chris Kattan is a third-rate hack whose career at Saturday Night Live only lasted as long as it did because he rode the …

Mar 24, 2005: Comcast 2005 Customer Survey Earlier in the week, we received a post card-based customer satisfaction survey from Comcast. We get ultra-basic cable and our high-speed Internet …

Mar 24, 2005: Loving death Peggy Noonan: Terri Schiavo may well die. No good will come of it. Those who are half in love with death will only become more red-fanged and …

Mar 23, 2005: Flickr-ed I have joined the Flickr bandwagon. You can see my first set, from February of last year, "Winter Wonderland 2004". I am in the process of looking for …

Mar 22, 2005: Installing BT module in G5 Going thru a backlog of RSS reading, I came across this post on installing the Bluetooth module in a Power Macintosh G5. One of my duties in the …

Mar 22, 2005: Free tech support Yes, really. Free tech support. [Via hackaday.]

Mar 22, 2005: If it's contraband, can we remove it from display? Further proof that (a) I don't know much about and don't care to know much about "modern" art, and (b) that some people have too much time on their …

Mar 22, 2005: Cylon on your desk Maybe I've just been watching too much Battlestar Galactica, but does anyone else think that VKB’s Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard looks like some …

Mar 22, 2005: Baby's first iPod This is giving me all sorts of ideas, should we have another tyke.

Mar 21, 2005: Pimp My Safari Jon Hicks has set up the definitive Safari extensibility site. I say that only because no one else has, so as the first, Jon gets the honor of …

Mar 21, 2005: Sit on a key This is exactly the sort of thing dot-coms would have been blowing venture capital on for their lobbies and any worker who wanted one.

Mar 21, 2005: You moved Seinfeld to when? So our local Fox station has been advertising that they're bringing back King of the Hill to its late-night comedy line-up, following Seinfeld. Great, …

Mar 21, 2005: Camino's new digs Mozilla offspring Camino has a new site. I like the new look, and downloaded the latest nightly build. Maybe it will be more stable on my system than …

Mar 21, 2005: Third-time charm The team went 3-0 this Sunday with a resounding 19-0 defeat of our opponent, another rookie outing by a new church. The bats were certainly mighty for …

Mar 20, 2005: Brainboost I've been dinking around with the Brainboost Answer Engine. Pretty nifty. You've got to love the big 'fro-spinning gears icon. [Via Make: Blog.]

Mar 17, 2005: The too-quiet motorcycle An interesting example of the law of unintended consequences: you design a hybrid motorcycle that results in zero emissions, but because it has no …

Mar 17, 2005: Do bikes grow on trees? They do in Geneva. Too cool.

Mar 17, 2005: Incredibles: 5 million on the first day It's nice to know I was able to contribute to the sales of five million DVD and video units of The Incredibles on the first day of its release.

Mar 17, 2005: The most color-accurate photographic system ever? Tom Watson and his business partner, Rob Howard, have devised a 144-megapixel camera system. Watson claims it is "the most color-accurate photographic …

Mar 16, 2005: Do we have allies or not? The AP editoralizes: Italy said Tuesday it will start drawing down its 3,000-strong contingent in Iraq in September, putting a fresh crack in …

Mar 16, 2005: Cat conversation This IM conversation, which I had very early this morning, has been edited for brevity and comedy.

Mar 16, 2005: What's at stake in Lebanon With the democracy domino wobbling and threatening to fall in Lebanon, there is a lot at stake for many in the region. The Wall Street Journal sums it …

Mar 16, 2005: Peerflix I can see the value in a service like Peerflix. I've got some DVDs that I'd like to get rid of, but don't feel like wasting time with eBay or …

Mar 16, 2005: Secret post An example of "practice what you preach"?

Mar 16, 2005: SSA makes case for reforming itself Brendan Miniter: Private accounts would pay workers based on the total amount they've paid into the system over their working lifetimes, not an …

Mar 15, 2005: Windows: The Bloated Cow Michael Hyatt: I understand that the code name for the next version of Windows is "Longhorn." Note: this is not an improvement over "Whistler." All I …

Mar 14, 2005: resurrection For those who may care, having been inspired by Hugh Hewitt's Blog, I have resumed blogging at Godblog, as of March 1st.

Mar 13, 2005: Spring training So as the boys of summer gear up for another season of America's game, we dreamers suited up for game two of our spring season. I only fielded 2 of …

Mar 11, 2005: On the Apple lawsuits I have refrained thus far from commenting on the lawsuits by Apple against Think Secret, PowerPage, and Apple Insider, none of whom I will dignify …

Mar 11, 2005: So what exactly are you protesting? Amir Taheri: I spent part of last week ringing up the organizers of the anti-war events with a couple of questions. The first: Would they allow …

Mar 11, 2005: Tiger RSS screensaver I'm sorry, but you just won't see something so insanely, wicked cool as this on Windows.

Mar 11, 2005: Oh, to be working again Though I don't drink coffee, I would have to have a chalk mug if I found myself in the workplace again. This would have come in so handy to send …

Mar 11, 2005: The real domestic issue Peggy Noonan points to civil defense, not Social Security or tax cuts, as the real number-one domestic issue. The one no one is talking about.

Mar 9, 2005: Hack hack Funny how differently colds affect folks. My son has been fighting one longer than I, and it manifests itself with a constantly running nose. Meds …

Mar 8, 2005: New PDA I have succumbed to the Hipster meme:

Mar 6, 2005: Opening Day Our softball league's spring season began today. Most of the old crew was back, with a couple of new faces. We faced a new opponent for this first …

Mar 2, 2005: Being hijacked I am not referring to an airline hijacking. Michael informed me this morning that our host for ATPM told him we went over our bandwidth limit for the …

Mar 1, 2005: ATPM 11.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your viewing pleasure. Ellyn opens with a look at a life in--or on, …

Feb 28, 2005: 2I is 1 This week is the week of site birthdays, I suppose. Lee's Second Initial turns one today. Congratulations, compadre!

Feb 28, 2005: Mickey Mouse Musical Toaster No, I'm not kidding. As if we needed another reason to lobby for copyright law overhaul.

Feb 28, 2005: Just Can't Get This Out Of My Head So while ripping CDs and loading up my wife's Shuffle, I decided to listen to a few tunes on it. I am still amazed that music comes out of this little …

Feb 28, 2005: MT turns two No, not that MT. My pal Jon's MobileTracker celebrated its second year of publication today. Congratulations, Mr. Gales!

Feb 28, 2005: Mapping the tax man Since Google Maps now works in Safari, and I had to get our property taxes paid today, I thought I would give the new service a whirl. I prefer it to …

Feb 26, 2005: Shotgun Rules No, not a shotgun as in firearm (though those do rule, especially when it comes to room-to-room clearing), but as in calling "Shotgun!" when you're …

Feb 26, 2005: Great moments in socialized medicine Dave Murphy, for the San Francisco Chronicle: From the time Tilly Merrell was a year old, doctors told her family she would never have a normal life …

Feb 25, 2005: About those unblocked pop-up/under ads In case you've ever wondered why you keep getting pop-up or pop-under ads, even though you have pop-up blocking enabled in Safari or Firefox, MDJ has …

Feb 24, 2005: New long distance record in Iraq A U.S. Marine, Staff Sgt. Steve Reichert, has scored a kill shot while engaging the enemy in Iraq, and the shot was over a mile away. For his actions, …

Feb 23, 2005: Identity thieves targeting medical patients Read this article now, as it will become subscriber-only after March 1st. The biggest vulnerability of hospital patients is that their Social …

Feb 23, 2005: Flying the American Flag I got a postcard in the mail from a local real estate agent, and on it was a helpful list of flag-flying days. Some of these will already be on iCal's …

Feb 23, 2005: Looking at you, bureaucrats "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson

Feb 22, 2005: And the winner of my almost twenty bucks is... Last night, my Movable Type installation decided it wanted to keep me from further posting on any of my blogs. This wasn't simply an authentication …

Feb 21, 2005: "But the police will protect you, you don't need a gun..." Tell that to Barbara Gesell and her daughter Theresa, who used her .45-caliber handgun to subdue the purse snatcher who attacked the elder Gesell, 83, …

Feb 21, 2005: Free speech, private versus public Ann Coulter: Tenure was supposed to create an atmosphere of open debate and inquiry, but instead has created havens for talentless cowards who want …

Feb 21, 2005: "We are what we say we are not." George Neumayr: Whenever a Democrat tells the public what his party "is not" he's revealing to them what it is. John Kerry fell into this habit …

Feb 21, 2005: Who declared it President's Day? Today we celebrate Washington's Birthday. Yet on every calendar I own, today is noted as President's Day, where we supposedly honor both George …

Feb 17, 2005: Summer hockey? Should there ever be another NHL season, Darryl Reaugh, color man for the Dallas Stars, may have hit a motherload of an idea on moving the time of the …

Feb 17, 2005: The usurping judiciary It truly is quite amazing how prescient our Founding Fathers were: "It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its …

Feb 16, 2005: Congratulations to the NHL and NHLPA The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, a fact proudly touted in the sports world by the NHL. Now professional …

Feb 16, 2005: What's so del.icio.us about it? Am I the only one who doesn't get the whole del.icio.us craze?

Feb 16, 2005: iScrolling I just installed the temporary version of Daniel Becker's iScroll2 on my 12-inch PowerBook G4 1 GHz. I'm loving it. Provided it proves stable, I'll …

Feb 16, 2005: MT-TypeKey dual login? So I just left a comment, in reply to one left by Raena, and a thought occurred to me: If I'm logged in to my Movable Type installation already, why …

Feb 14, 2005: Pair of Harleys

So today I picked up the pair of Harley-Davidsons I ordered. To see a picture of these beauties, click below.

Feb 13, 2005: In my right mind So I've been thinking about Daniel Pink's article, "Revenge of the Right Brain", over the past couple of days, and it's amazing how much my own …

Feb 13, 2005: Cause a ruckus Are those Vespa scooters a tad too girly for you? Get a Big Ruckus, courtesy of Honda. [Via Wired.]

Feb 13, 2005: New archives Thanks to inspiration from Lee, and code from Chris, I have the master archive index page I've been wanting. You will note there is no longer a …

Feb 13, 2005: About your Social Security "account" Jeff Jacoby: You don't have to be a financial wizard to know that Social Security is a lousy investment. Unlike the money you deposit in a bank or …

Feb 12, 2005: On being the opposition Ted Van Dyk: Republican control of the White House, both houses of Congress, and state houses gives the GOP its strongest national position since the …

Feb 9, 2005: Long distance record in Iraq The Toad reports on a new long-distance sniping record in Iraq, by a U.S. Marine sniper. I like Brian's thought: I wonder what goes through the minds …

Feb 9, 2005: Bayesian Logic intro Computerworld has an article on "Bayesian Logic and Filters" in their QuickStudy section this week. This is the sort of logic behind many of the …

Feb 8, 2005: Secure your Mac the NSA way If you'd like to secure your Macintosh in the same manner as the National Security Agency, you can download a PDF explaining how here. [Via the March …

Feb 7, 2005: What a Crock Pot, that is. Over the past year, we have rediscovered the joys of cooking with a Crock-Pot. Today, I made a Weight Watchers Chili Mac recipe in ours, …

Feb 7, 2005: Napster needs to do the math again See Napster's Super Bowl ads? Think you'll remember them three weeks from now? Right. Ashlee Vance dissects Napster's supposed costs, which do not …

Feb 7, 2005: Jeep Gladiator While the Honda Ridgeline remains the practical object of my truck-lust, the concept Jeep Gladiator has vaulted to the top of my "if money and …

Feb 6, 2005: Longing for home

In his Daily Devotional for February 1st (free registration required), Pastor Greg Laurie talks about a homesickness for heaven.

You were created …

Feb 6, 2005: Wahhabists running amok From the "Religion of Peace" Department, Jeff Jacoby: In which country are Muslims being taught the following lessons? "Everyone who does not …

Feb 6, 2005: 94 Today would have been President Ronald Reagan's 94th birthday. Jeff Harrell: President Reagan meant a lot to me. I never met the man, nor did I ever …

Feb 4, 2005: On the Gonzales confirmation vote Hispanic-Americans, take note. The party which claims to have your interests at heart, the party which claims to be the tolerant one, the party which …

Feb 4, 2005: A Democrat who supports private accounts for Social Security John Fund, in today's Political Diary: Republican members of Congress have a ready response for Democrats crying foul over President Bush's constant …

Feb 4, 2005: Intelligent Design "new" James Taranto: In the Beginning "How did life, in its infinite complexity, come to be?" asks Newsweek in a subheadline. "A controversial new theory …

Feb 3, 2005: Ocean, pool, pool, ocean Based on this photo, should I ever get Down Under, I'm making a mental note to not go swimming in the Bondi Icebergs pool...

Feb 3, 2005: A thousand words, indeed Jeff Harrell sums up my feelings from the State of the Union. I cried, too, Jeff.

Feb 3, 2005: Looking for love in all the wrong places Apparently, the Democratic Party is ready to lose the next couple of election rounds as well. Jeff Jacoby: Speaking to a DNC forum in New York over …

Feb 3, 2005: Beatles-Monkees mash If this doesn't prove that the original, interchangeable bubble-gum pop didn't come from the UK, I'm not sure what will. [Via Eric Case, QuickTime …

Feb 2, 2005: About that PowerBook G5 So my previous rumination on the G5 in a PowerBook and the Mac Mini bears a little updating. On Monday, Apple announced new PowerBook G4s, showing the …

Feb 2, 2005: AutoPO Has the United States Postal Service installed one of the new automated postal machines in your local branch? They have in ours, and I wish they had …

Feb 2, 2005: Boingo for Mac In case you aren't a T-Mobile HotSpot subscriber, you can now use your Macintosh on the Boingo Wireless network. I can't get the word "Oingo" out of …

Feb 2, 2005: Microsoft overrun by the iPod MacMinute notes a Wired article showing how despite the best efforts of management, Microsoft employees know a clear winner when they see one. …

Feb 2, 2005: PulpFiction nabs 4.5 mice So the March issue of Macworld arrived today, and I was reading through it over lunch. One of the articles is a round-up of news reader apps, and …

Feb 2, 2005: How to fold a shirt Yes, really. I can see this will entail some practice. [Via The Sneeze.]

Feb 2, 2005: So, yeah, I was stupid Enormously, incredibly stupid. Michael was right. I was insane. I am man enough to admit such. No more blogging at Godblog or digitalpembroke. (I do …

Feb 2, 2005: Quiet bliss The little phisch is at school. The dog is at the cleaners. The cats are off napping some where, since that's what cats do, when they're not sitting …

Feb 2, 2005: Is Gmail reaching saturation? Tom notes logging in to his Gmail account this morning, and finding 50 invitations to offer to others. This prompted me to do the same, wondering if I …

Feb 1, 2005: Mac Mini to cannibalize older Mac sales Yeah, I know, there's a shocker of a realization, right? But it's true. Since the Mac Mini was announced, I've had many instant message conversations …

Feb 1, 2005: It's nice to know we're cool Christian Science Monitor: Paul Saffo, a director of the Menlo Park-based Institute for the Future, a technology forecasting firm, says Apple's two …

Feb 1, 2005: Fighting the link spammers Everyone seems to be linking to The Register's interview with a link spammer. This is what caught my attention: "The hardest form to spam is that …

Feb 1, 2005: ATPM 11.02 The February issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Ellyn notes the need for healthy skepticism on the …

Jan 25, 2005: The Mac introduction If you've followed every Macworld Expo keynote QuickTime stream since, well, since Apple's been offering them, and you wonder what it would have been …

Jan 24, 2005: MacInTouch on the Mac Mini Ric Ford, the original Macintosh blogger, has a review of the Mac Mini.

Jan 23, 2005: Looking ahead to the G5 Mini So looking around a bit at the Mac web this weekend, it appears the PowerBook G5 rumors are about to start gaining steam. Supposedly the current …

Jan 21, 2005: Introducing the rotary cell phone As you hearken back to yesteryear, longing for those good ol' Luddite days, please note that you too can build a rotary cell phone. [Via Lawson via …

Jan 20, 2005: LSU goes Xserve MacMinute reports that my alma mater has put online a 24-Xserve G5 cluster named Nemeaux. So I guess this proves that Tigers eat Apples...or …

Jan 19, 2005: SE T616 anyone? So my wife decided to take the plunge, switched her phone service to the new Crackberry her employer purchased for her, and we now have a SIM …

Jan 19, 2005: Thought shuffle So according to Apple, one of the big reasons for bringing out the iPod Shuffle is the shuffle "phenomenon with iPod users - the 'shuffle songs' …

Jan 17, 2005: The price of being a Mac user Michael opines on the increased software value of an iWork-loaded Mac Mini, when compared to purchasing iLife '05, iWork, and an OS upgrade …

Jan 16, 2005: Can corporate IT mirror the Navy? Frank Hayes: ...[T]he new Navy policy shows signs of being a remarkably sane model for what users should do with IT, at least the way it's described …

Jan 13, 2005: Another Mac master Michael Crichton: Q: Describe the perfect writing environment. A: Small room. Shades down. No daylight. No disturbances. Macintosh with a big screen. …

Jan 13, 2005: Chained notes I rediscovered a gem by former ATPM staffer Kirk McElhearn from the June 2004 issue of Macworld. In the Working Mac column, Kirk is discussing …

Jan 10, 2005: BBAutoComplete 1.4 Michael has released BBAutoComplete 1.4. BBAutoComplete gives you word auto-completion in scriptable applications like BBEdit, Mailsmith, Tex-Edit, …

Jan 7, 2005: Still no OmniWeb for this phisch Michael's analysis of OmniWeb's shortcomings, and Gruber's comment to the post, leave me wondering why I continue to download and install the thing, …

Jan 7, 2005: Combatting spam for Movable Type users His Gruberness has written, on behalf and with the input of, Six Apart, a comprehensive guide on weblog comment spam. This has given me some ideas for …

Jan 3, 2005: Next-gen camou So do you recall the sci-fi tales of the wearable, adaptable camouflage that reflects the wearer's environment back on to the environment, essentially …

Dec 31, 2004: ATPM 11.01 The January issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Ellyn resolves not to make resolutions, while Wes …

Dec 28, 2004: Google 2004 Zeitgeist Anyone else out there find the 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist to be a total yawner?

Dec 27, 2004: Which BT headset? Increasingly, I am finding that it would be easier to have a Bluetooth headset for use with my Sony Ericsson T616. I'm currently leaning toward either …

Dec 26, 2004: New toy Santa was very good to the Retrophisch™ this year. By way of Missus Phisch, the jolly old elf delivered a Canon PowerShot S500 Digital Elph, an …

Dec 20, 2004: Retrophisch™ on the Eddys Taking a cue from Michael, I'd thought I'd look at the 2004 Macworld Editors Choice Awards to see how they fit in my hardware and software toolbelt: + …

Dec 13, 2004: On Amazon's search engine I have come to the conclusion--and many of you may be wondering what took me so long--that Amazon's search engine could be vastly improved. Viz: I …

Dec 13, 2004: Mid-range Mac comparison Ric Ford found some surprising results in a mid-range Macintosh face-off with today's Performance Comparison: eMac G4, iBook G4 and iMac G5.

Dec 11, 2004: Having a blast with BlastApp Ever have one of those moments where something gives a swift kick to your memory box and you suddenly rediscover an old joy? Such it was this evening …

Dec 11, 2004: War hath been declared So some of you may have noticed the site was down earlier this evening for about an hour. My sysadmin pulled the plug, so to speak, because those scum …

Dec 7, 2004: iPod flash Engadget notes TheMacMind.com's report on the supposedly forthcoming iPod flash, a tiny, flash memory-based MP3 player that will round out Apple's …

Dec 2, 2004: Gear Lust and Loathing 2005 This time of year, everyone and their editor is churning out some sort of gadget list for their December issue. I have decided to share my comments on …

Nov 23, 2004: Pogue's Posts Macintosh author extraordinaire David Pogue now has a daily blog, courtesy of the New York Times.

Nov 15, 2004: Audion ends at 3 Yes, I'm a wee bit behind in my web reading, having been on vacation last week, and I'm still getting caught up. So Panic has retired Audion. …

Nov 4, 2004: ATPM 10.11 The November issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Lee's cover is inspired. Mondo thanks to Gruber for playing along. Ellyn explores the …

Nov 3, 2004: Want a Rolex? Everyone else out there seeing a huge load in Rolex-related spam? I swear, Rolex-related e-mail is between 1 in 7 to 1 in 10 of the spam I'm getting …

Oct 27, 2004: Turning Two The previous entry marked number 800 for this now two-year-old blog. Despite it being noted on my calendar, I completely missed the two-year …

Oct 25, 2004: Treo 650 official After months of leaked photos and specs, PalmOne has officially announced the Treo 650 smartphone, available some time in the coming months from …

Oct 24, 2004: The end of e-mail? I know it's ancient history as far as the Internet is concerned (19 July 2004), but I thought Mark Hall's "The End of E-mail" was worth noting. I'm …

Oct 22, 2004: Software Update before and after Dr. Mac has excellent advice for preparation and post-op procedures for working with Mac OS X's Software Update in his latest column for Mac Design …

Oct 21, 2004: Desktops by co2metal I discovered these desktops by co2metal, aka Andy, while cruising through ResExcellence last week. Now, I'm not nearly in to the whole GUI …

Oct 20, 2004: Our Mr. Gales in print Hearty congratulations go out to Friend of the Phisch™ Jon Gales, who is featured in the November issue of Business 2.0! (The issue in question …

Oct 20, 2004: Annoyance: CD security tape I can appreciate the little sticky security tape on the tops of CDs sold to consumers. I realize it is a preventive measure against the CDs being …

Oct 20, 2004: PowerBook goodies A couple of PowerBook-related goodies were announced yesterday that has the phisch bowl churning. MCE announced a new 100 GB internal drive for every …

Oct 16, 2004: Mr. Bennett Goes to Dallas Lee blogging from the phisch bowl. So Lee was in town for an annual conference, and spent Saturday afternoon hanging out with me, the missus, and the …

Oct 9, 2004: MacSurfShop returns! My favorite merchant of Mac-related apparel has re-opened for business. Mike Yraelbra, the Big Kahuna, has brought back the MacSurfShop, with a new …

Oct 6, 2004: Ballmer smackdown continuation As usual, Mr. Gruber does a better job than most at dissecting a topic, in this case Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's crude comments regarding Apple and …

Oct 6, 2004: Sticking with BBEdit, thanks Michael, who is much more knowledgeable of such things than I, has an overview of MacroMates' newly-released TextMate, which purports to be a BBEdit …

Oct 5, 2004: Categories no more So after deliberating over whether or not to eliminate categories--and thank you so much for all those comments with feedback--I have decided to can …

Oct 5, 2004: Soyuz PowerBook Laptop bag Dan rightly points out how wicked cool it would be to own a laptop bag made from parts of a parachute that has been in orbit around the Earth. Space …

Oct 5, 2004: Such maturity for a CEO Lee points to another Silicon.com article which reveals Steve Ballmer is even more of a childish imbecile than was previously thought.

Oct 5, 2004: Memo to Steve Ballmer Mr. Ballmer: Despite your reckless and libelous statements regarding Apple and the iPod, please note that your 12-year-old is likely hiding stolen …

Oct 5, 2004: Happy Tenth, Ric Yesterday, Ric Ford celebrated the 10th anniversary of MacInTouch. MacInTouch is, to my best recollection, the original Macintosh news blog, from …

Oct 3, 2004: A prettier Firefox? There seems to be a movement afoot to pretty-up the Mac version of Firefox. Jon Hicks came up with some native-looking widgets, and Kevin Gerich has …

Oct 1, 2004: Brain Bag trade? Anyone out there with a black Brain Bag willing to trade for a sapphire (blue) Brain Bag? Mine is in like-new condition, was originally sent to me as …

Oct 1, 2004: Fun with statistics 2 In the first 17 hours of October 2004, these are the Top 10 Search Phrases for retrophisch.com: 1. earthquakes in france 2. definition of a liberal 3. …

Sep 30, 2004: Tattoo residue Engadget is reporting that the iPod tattoos being provided by HP can leave an unpleasant aftertaste.

Sep 27, 2004: Virgin Galactic No, that's not a typo. Richard "I-have-more-money-than-I-know-what-to-do-with" Branson is going to cater to his peers with the new Virgin Galactic, …

Sep 21, 2004: Gmail for Newties I have some Gmail invitations to give away. All of my friends and online acquaintances already have accounts. It seems that Gmail4Troops has a surplus …

Sep 21, 2004: To categorize or not to categorize? That is the question. I have wondered, of late, if I should continue to bother. If I shouldn't just stop categorizing, and kill all current …

Sep 13, 2004: Register.com's radio nonsense Have you head the radio ad from Register.com with the two guys, "We lost the client because we didn't have a web site"? What utter tripe. Apparently, …

Sep 3, 2004: Fun with statistics Top 10 search phrases for retrophisch.com for the first three days of September: 1. powerbook skin 2. definition of a liberal 3. sweet 4. conservative …

Sep 2, 2004: ATPM 10.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn sneaks in a word on integration, while Matt pontificates over the new …

Aug 27, 2004: Browse happy The Web Standards Project has started a new campaign, called Browse Happy, as an attempt to get people to switch from the unsafe, non-pop-up ad …

Aug 27, 2004: Wi-FiPods MacMinute notes a report by The Register on open positions within the iPod team for wireless networking engineers. Tony Smith proceeds to pontificate …

Aug 24, 2004: The Apple Table For the Apple Macintosh lover who has everything, there is now the Apple Table. It's actually kind of ergonomic, in the way that the cutouts allow the …

Aug 23, 2004: Microsoft patents sudo Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. (With a wave of the flipper to Lawson.)

Aug 23, 2004: About that halo effect USA Today: Apple's trendy iPod digital music player, which has revitalized the company, is giving laptop sales a boost during back-to-school season. …

Aug 18, 2004: Happy Birthday, MDJ! Belated birthday wishes to Matt Deatherage and the entire MDJ on their eighth anniversary of publication. The August 12th issue of MDJ marked the …

Aug 11, 2004: Bleex Could this Berkeley project be coming to a future-soldier project near you? (Wouldn't that just tick the lefties at Berkeley off...)

Aug 11, 2004: Auto theft reducer DataDots are reducing auto theft in Australia, but have yet to make it in to the U.S. other than on Nissan headlamps.

Aug 9, 2004: Apple shoulda woulda coulda It is analysis like this, on the "Apple should have licensed the Mac in the '80s" unconventional wisdom, which merited my support of Mr. Gruber.

Aug 5, 2004: Macintosh serial number fun If you absolutely must know the week of your Mac's manufacture, or where the factory is it came from, you can use Chipmunk International's handy Mac …

Aug 5, 2004: Pool tunes I have an Onkyo SE-U55 USB Digital Audio Processor hooked up to my Power Mac G4 Cube. This allows me to run all Cube audio through my Aiwa shelf …

Aug 3, 2004: Apple does batteries Just in case you've ever wondered.

Aug 2, 2004: Industry modeling The bulk of Paul Graham's essay Great Hackers is about dealing with and cultivating great hackers in the corporate environment. I found this very …

Aug 2, 2004: What's your chat preference? Totally unscientific, totally biased, comment-based poll: What is your favorite chat protocol and client? Here at Retrophisch™ Central, we …

Aug 2, 2004: Mobile round-up The coming months will bear fruit for those in the market for the latest and greatest in mobile phones, as evidenced by the n3rdling's look at …

Aug 2, 2004: ATPM 10.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Ellyn reminds us to take some time out, while Ted dives in to mindmappers in his latest …

Jul 21, 2004: Whip antenna for smallest PowerBook As a 12-inch PowerBook owner, the blurb on MacMinute about QuickerTek's new Whip Antenna for the smallest PowerBook piqued my interest. However, after …

Jul 17, 2004: New iPods Monday? Engadget has the Newsweek cover with Steve and the new iPod. It's still white, reportedly has an even slimmer case, and sports the iPod mini-style …

Jul 17, 2004: War of the worlds Last month's Wired has a short article with a lot of graphs and charts on the Free versus the Unfree worlds, as it relates to consumers and producers, …

Jul 13, 2004: On buying DVDs So today at Costco I picked up The Bourne Identity: Explosive Extended Edition, Widescreen, of course. I am seeing a trend in DVD releases lately. …

Jul 13, 2004: Times vs Times Jason Kottke points to an interesting backgrounder on Times Roman and Times New Roman.

Jul 13, 2004: Zimmermann online Cryptologists and cypherpunks will note Phil Zimmermann's home page. For the uninitiated, Zimmermann is responsible for the wildly popular PGP, or …

Jul 12, 2004: Scanner lust Is it just me, or does anyone else notice that the prices for superior-technology scanners continue to drop? Take, for instance, Canon's new CanoScan …

Jul 12, 2004: 100 Million Songs Apple's iTunes Music Store has broken the 100 million-song barrier.

Jul 12, 2004: A man's scooter Not that I'm in the market for a scooter, but if I were, the Scarabeo 500 would be it. In black and silver, please.

Jul 12, 2004: Font lust Hoefler & Frere-Jones have two great fonts out, Gotham and Whitney. Gotham is especially notable, as it is the font being used for the inscription …

Jul 11, 2004: Miscellany gCount: menu bar application for OS X that tells you when new mail arrives in your Gmail in box. So now you don't have to keep a browser window open …

Jul 10, 2004: Dropload If I didn't already have my own server space for such usage, Dropload would be quite useful. Don't ruin it for everyone else.

Jul 8, 2004: Tiger Support for Boy Bands? Wittiness like this is one reason why I decided to support our Mr. Gruber. (The latter of which won me an iLife '04 book + DVD from Jim Heid! Thanks, …

Jul 8, 2004: If you have to fly 14 hours If you have to fly 14 hours, it seems Jimmy Grewal has found a great way to do it. I simultaneously would love to experience such a flight, and would …

Jul 7, 2004: Blogger schwag I'm still shaking my head over this one. I suppose it's only a matter of time before someone comes up with Texas blogger schwag. (No, it won't be me.) …

Jul 5, 2004: A dashing konflagration So it seems that just about everyone has weighed in on the Dashboard vs Konfabulator issue. I happen to firmly echo the sentiments of John Gruber, …

Jul 1, 2004: ATPM 10.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Ted's amazing ATPO series continues with a look at the future of outlining, while Ellyn …

Jun 30, 2004: Yes, comments Comments are back, so Chris P., you can now comment on my GarageBand-created track. The solution? Turns out I had a blank line in my Movable Type …

Jun 30, 2004: No comments? For some reason, no one is able to post comments at the moment. Not even myself. "You do not have permission..." It is under investigation.

Jun 27, 2004: Taking the gloves off? Apple publicly acknowledges what Mac users have known all along.

Jun 27, 2004: Sweet Southern Summer So, yeah, I've been playing with GarageBand. Sweet Southern Summmer Yes, it is inspired by the southern rock, classic rock, rockabilly, and country …

Jun 24, 2004: Has the privatization of space begun? The big tech news of the week has to be the first step toward space privatization, with the successful launch of SpaceShipOne on Monday. Pilot Mike …

Jun 23, 2004: Joining the Cingular Nation So at the end of May, my wife and I made the switch. With number portability well in hand, and no loyalty to Verizon Wireless since the parent company …

Jun 23, 2004: Fun with Apple toys You can now have your iPod fully integrated in your over-priced German automobile. Apple product managers have an iChat AV video conference while one …

Jun 21, 2004: The meaning of iPod The Economist has a noteworthy article on how the iPod has changed and is changing the way we listen to music. Rumormongers of the video iPod should …

Jun 17, 2004: Tempting GigaDesigns announced today a 1.5 GHz G4 upgrade for the Power Mac Cube. However, at six hundred smackers, I believe I'd rather put that toward a new …

Jun 7, 2004: Dock? What Dock? From my days of working on 15-inch LCDs, I have long hidden Mac OS X's Dock. After all, I wanted to maximize my screen real estate. I still do this on …

Jun 3, 2004: ATPM 10.06 The June issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Matt Coates discusses online offers and gives us a glimpse of his personal network. Andrew …

May 27, 2004: Sterling at Microsoft Bruce Sterling spoke at Microsoft last week, and someone was nice enough to transcribe it for him, since by his own admission, Mr. Sterling had no …

May 21, 2004: LavaPad I'm not sure if it is really cool, or too geeky and too pricey.

May 17, 2004: iMac G5 No, Apple hasn't made any new product announcements, but Peter Kellner resurrected an old iMac in new clothing. (via MacInTouch)

May 14, 2004: Mac OS version builds This handy chart of Mac OS version builds that shipped with various systems since 1998 is incredibly valuable. (via MacInTouch)

May 13, 2004: World's Fastest Man Remembered The world's fastest man has left this earth for the last time. William J. "Pete" Knight became the world's fastest man on October 3, 1967, while …

May 12, 2004: Welcome to the 21st century, Mr. Gates Six years after Steve Jobs and Apple declared the floppy disk dead, with the release of the iMac, Bill Gates states the same: In some ways, I think …

May 5, 2004: Color Showcase My favorite iPod carrying case is going color on May 15th. The Contour Showcase will be available in six different colors, as well as black and the …

May 5, 2004: Next Windows OS requires non-existent PCs Microsoft Watch is reporting that the next verison of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, is going to require a PC that doesn't yet exist. That's okay, since …

May 3, 2004: Book return Thanks to the newly-introduced PowerBooks, and getting back some of our hard-earned dough from Uncle Sam, there is a new phischbook in the house. I …

May 3, 2004: ATPM 10.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Ellyn makes a wonderful observation on social contacts on the Internet, which I know has been …

Apr 16, 2004: On wish lists and recommendations Why is it that Amazon.com's recommendation system isn't smart enough to figure out that it doesn't need to recommend something to me that's already in …

Apr 14, 2004: ElleBook My eyes! My eyes! Just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily mean you should do something. (via Kahney)

Apr 14, 2004: Gmail privacy concerns Declan McCullagh discusses his reservations about Google's in-private-beta Gmail system. His privacy concerns are well-founded, but I'm sure a lot of …

Apr 14, 2004: NASA Space Flight Patch icons Maury McCown of RAILhead Design has released a massive, 146-icon collection of NASA space flight patches. The patches range from the Freedom 7 flight …

Apr 13, 2004: VZW to carry Treo 600! w00t! So perhaps I won't switch wireless carriers after all. It's not like I can do anything right now anyway, being unemployed and all...

Apr 8, 2004: Buttoned up So looking at Lee's setup had me thinking that my blog could use a little more color, so I jumped on the button bandwagon. You can see my own …

Apr 8, 2004: You like your iPod a little too much when... This is just sad. What makes it even more sad is that this "impulse buy" wasn't at some flea market or craft store, or something along those lines. It …

Apr 1, 2004: Gateway closing all retail stores The beleagured computer maker announced today that it would be closing all 188 of its retail stores, putting 2,500 people out of work. Boo. Hoo. Maybe …

Apr 1, 2004: Who needs satellite radio? Lee linked to the Alpine iPod Ready in-dash receivers in a recent post. I must say I am very interested, though I will probably hold off on anything …

Mar 31, 2004: ATPM 10.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Yours truly contributed desktop pictures for this month's issue. Of note is Evan's …

Mar 25, 2004: Perfect PDAs Still leaning toward the Treo 600 myself, I wholeheartedly agree with Steven Frank's latest perfect PDA ponderings.

Mar 25, 2004: USB micro/mini drives It seems like more and more vendors are jumping in to the USB micro/mini-drive game these days. Iomega has a hip-looking USB 2.0 version, but for the …

Mar 13, 2004: Just say no to Internet taxes No taxes on Internet access (in the U.S.) is something I believe even the left-minded of my geek brethren would agree is a good thing. From the 04-10 …

Mar 10, 2004: Memory on your wrist Get your Dick Tracy on with the new LaCie Data Watch, which jams 128 MB of flash memory in to a decent-looking, black analog watch for 70 bucks. Works …

Mar 10, 2004: Marginalizing IE The Mac Marginalization report at MacInTouch has seen a spurt of activity in recent days, notably about certain web sites not working with Safari or …

Mar 6, 2004: On browser window size I wholeheartedly agree with Lee. And the n3rdling tells us in the comments that Firefox has a pref to prevent this occurrence from happening. I hope …

Mar 6, 2004: Clean RSS 2.0 from MT I don't think anyone's not going to cop to the fact that as great as Movable Type is, its RSS 2.0 templates fairly suck. I took up Steven Frank's …

Mar 5, 2004: 2004 March of Dimes WalkAmerica Next month, my wife will be leading her firm at the annual March of Dimes WalkAmerica in Dallas. She has registered to raise money for the event, and …

Mar 3, 2004: Second Initial Lee has suspended blogging at dtpbylee.com, and has opened Second Initial. He has a kick-butt layout thanks to our favorite code babe, Raena, and …

Mar 2, 2004: ATPM 10.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available, in leaded, unleaded, and diesel flavors.

Mar 2, 2004: Development halts on VLC Mac client ATPM staffer Chris Lawson informs us that the the former OS X maintainer, Derk-Jan Hartman, has stepped down from the VideoLAN Client project. So far, …

Mar 1, 2004: Archives updated So in the course of waiting on a myriad of things to happen at work today, I decided to get off my duff and fix up the main archives page the way I …

Mar 1, 2004: iPod mini thoughts I stopped by the Willow Bend Apple Store last week for two reasons. First, I needed to pick up a couple of extra FireWire-to-Dock cables for iPod use. …

Feb 26, 2004: ATPM Chicago outing The boys in and around the Windy City who volunteer on ATPM decided on a get-together last weekend. Wes Meltzer has the complete story, along with a …

Feb 23, 2004: Kirk's latest ATPM staffer Kirk McElhearn's latest book, How To Do Everything With Mac OS X Panther, has been released. Congrats, Kirk!

Feb 22, 2004: Your very own spy drone Sweetie, can I have one? I promise to use it and my other powers only for good...

Feb 16, 2004: Google your flight info Last month, Aaron Swartz noted some new features of Google, a few I was not aware of. Is it any wonder that Apple has a Google search field built …

Feb 16, 2004: Bye-bye, Palm So PalmSource has decided to discontinue Mac support in upcoming versions of the Palm OS, despite the fact that they have a larger market share …

Feb 10, 2004: ATPM 10.02 Whew. You know it's been a hectic month when you're ten days in and you're just now getting around to noting the release of the February issue of the …

Feb 10, 2004: Always have an eject button A lot of third-party keyboards for Macs don't have an eject key on them. This is an oldie but a goodie from the fine folks at OWC on how to always …

Jan 31, 2004: Too digital too fast? In the Feburary 2d issue of BusinessWeek, Robert D. Hof has a column on why the latest technology isn't always the best (paid registration required). …

Jan 30, 2004: It's about time Pixar dumps Disney. Pixar will be the better for it. Eisner is an idiot. I hope the Disney board roasts him on a spit. (Thanks, Michael.)

Jan 30, 2004: Pogue on Gateway plasmas If you're not subscribing to the NYT's Circuits e-mail list (free registration required), you're missing out on some classic Pogue, who this week …

Jan 29, 2004: SpamSieve 2.1.2 Well I hope no one out there is relying on me for up-to-date SpamSieve release information. I have been woefully remiss this week in my completely …

Jan 27, 2004: The FireWire Drive That Would Not Die!™

So yesterday afternoon, my boss hooks up an external LaCie FireWire hard drive to one of our G5s. We're working on a project for the Apple retail …

Jan 19, 2004: GarageBand to also revolutionize the music biz? In an article for the New York Times (free registration required), David Pogue discusses iLife '04 and looks at the GarageBand component. He says: It …

Jan 12, 2004: More Microsoft "innovation" One of the features touted in the upcoming Office 2004 for Mac is the on-the-fly-editable Page Layout view in Excel. Too bad Gates' Macintosh Business …

Jan 12, 2004: Macquarium, Cube style One of the Cube listers pointed us to a friend's Macquarium, built in a G4 Cube shell. There's even a phischy Mac-head named Steve!

Jan 9, 2004: SpamSieve 2.1.1 Michael has updated SpamSieve. The latest update is faster at processing messages, even when there are many blocklist and whitelist rules. The speed …

Jan 9, 2004: ClearCube PowerLogix has followed up their PowerCube enclosure upgrade for Power Mac Cube owners with a new clear acrylic version. Robert, I'm still waiting for …

Jan 8, 2004: MacZealots If you haven't been by MacZealots lately, stop on by. This is not some lame, thrown-together-quickly teenage Mac lover site. The three brains behind …

Jan 8, 2004: MacCentral: The FoxTrot interview MacCentral interviewed Bill Amend, creator of the comic FoxTrot, last month. My favorite quote: Amend previously worked on a Blue & White Power …

Jan 8, 2004: Keynote coverage On the one hand, it's pretty amazing that Andy Ihnatko nails--in advance, mind you--what would go down at the Macworld Expo Keynote Steve Jobs …

Jan 5, 2004: Salkever on a stronger Apple MacMinute points to a BusinessWeek Online article by Alex Salkever wherein he lays out his wish list for a stronger Apple. I have to say that Salkever …

Jan 3, 2004: ATPM 10.01 The January issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. ATPM has now entered its 10th calendar year of publishing! As a …

Jan 3, 2004: Overhauling the overhaul In an endeavor to fully separate the personal from the tech talk, per the rejection of my Google AdSense application, consider this the formal …

Dec 29, 2003: iPod Battery FAQ Dave Schroeder, an Apple Distinguished Educator, has posted the quite sensible and easy-to-follow iPod Battery FAQ. Hopefully this will go a long way …

Dec 27, 2003: Yes, more SpamSieve flattery Away from home, on the annual Christmas trek, for four days. Mailsmith is left humming along on the Cube, pulling mail every few hours. Upon the …

Dec 19, 2003: IT-Enquirer on Mailsmith The official Retrophisch™ email client has been reviewed at IT-Enquirer, and Michael's SpamSieve gets some more good press.

Dec 19, 2003: Wal-Mart music store Jeff Knapp writes in to MacInTouch with his experience with the new Windows-only Wal-Mart music store. It seems that one can use a Mac to view the …

Dec 16, 2003: Power Mac G4 Cube G5 Those Japanese Mac lovers sure have some copious spare time on their hands. One Cube owner decided he wanted an enclosure that mimicked the look of …

Dec 16, 2003: Yeah, a standard port would have been nice And now we have experienced the other druther of the 3G iPods: the non-standard dock connector. I get to work today, pull out the new iPod, and then …

Dec 16, 2003: New iPod So I had long ago outgrown my original 5 GB iPod, but I lived with moving music off and on to it from my Mac as my tastes dictated. An early Christmas …

Dec 15, 2003: Mac Fax Hivelogic has the low-down on setting up your Panther-ized Mac as a fax server. (via MacInTouch)

Dec 15, 2003: SpamSieve makes the MacInTouch poll Just as I mentioned that I would like to have voted for SpamSieve for the MacInTouch Reader Choice Poll for 2003, so does Ric Ford go and allow …

Dec 11, 2003: Microsoft's next monopoly MDJ has a dead-on assessment in today's issue of how Microsoft is seeking to co-op the online music market: Nonetheless, even more companies are …

Dec 11, 2003: MacInTouch Readers Choice Poll 2003 Ric Ford has posted the results of his totally informal poll on the best Apple products for 2003. The iPod/iTunes combo takes overall best product. …

Dec 10, 2003: You want to jack in to my what? Unlike Lee, I don't think I'd appreciate this new trend of non-verbal, can-I-listen-to-your-iPod-for-a-moment "communication" with perfect strangers. …

Dec 10, 2003: ProTouch PB The folks at iSkin have rolled out a new keyboard protector for current PowerBooks and iBooks. I reviewed an older version of the iSkin Keyboard …

Dec 10, 2003: Paying for iPod color? I have to wonder at the prospect of paying for a professional paint job for one's iPod or PowerBook. Granted, the iPod job only costs fifty bucks, but …

Dec 10, 2003: Jobs: Rolling Stone A good interview with Steve Jobs over on RollingStone.com. Having had discussions about the music biz with folks who have worked in it, including my …

Dec 9, 2003: Overhaul If you've actually been hitting the site over the past couple of days rather than reading posts via RSS feeds, you will have noticed the new look. To …

Dec 9, 2003: SpamSieve 2.1 Michael released version 2.1 of SpamSieve today. This version adds more support to Apple Mail that was begun in version 2.0.2, as well as numerous …

Dec 8, 2003: Least deserving of title shot Poll running right now on ESPN's College Football page: which team least deserves to play for the national championship? Oklahoma leads by a wide …

Dec 8, 2003: BCmess I've said it before, I'll say it again: the BCS is a bunch of hooey. It happens to be the best the NCAA can do right now, even if their best isn't …

Dec 6, 2003: The case for #2 LSU should play in the national championship game as the #2, maybe even the #1 team in the country. Here's why: 1. Oklahoma lost to Kansas State …

Dec 5, 2003: Back to space It will be interesting to see if the President issues a call to go back to space later this month, or next. This is very sobering: bq. Every American …

Dec 5, 2003: Xtremity XtremeMac has released their Xtremity iPod Case System. I like the ease of transition from being carried on the belt to popping it in to a car mount, …

Dec 4, 2003: Congrats, Michael Friend of the phisch Michael Tsai has been awarded an Eddy by Macworld magazine for his awesome spam-killing app, SpamSieve. I've been using SpamSieve …

Dec 4, 2003: All-nighter What happens when your client realizes they're running the wrong version of two commercials in all thirty-nine of their stores that have a theater …

Dec 3, 2003: ATPM 9.12 The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Articles of interest include Ellyn's look at the changing face of research, part six of …

Dec 3, 2003: Change your iPod battery Thinking that my iPod's battery may be dying--it is an original 5 GB model--I've been looking around for replacements from third parties. The fine …

Dec 3, 2003: FrontPage coders, take note If you really want to get the most out of your web code, and don't have a Mac, please, please, please use this.

Dec 3, 2003: Beginning of VPC's end? Karl Dandenell reports to Ric Ford on MacInTouch that Virtual PC 6 is not supported on Power Mac G5s. There is potential hope in that Microsoft states …

Dec 3, 2003: 33 I think most people would agree, with the possible exceptions of decade birthdays (30, 40, 50), that year-to-year, they really don't feel that much …

Dec 3, 2003: The real reason behind IT purchasing In the most recent Macintosh Daily Journal, Matt Deatherage & Co. take Information Week to task over their recent PC Vendor poll and rankings. MDJ …

Dec 2, 2003: iPod as big as the Mac? It's certainly looking that way to Apple. The iPod is the highest-volume item the company moves right now, with 1.4 million sold. ''It's something …

Dec 1, 2003: Back to work Today was my first day at my new job. The company I'm working for is AMX, based in Richardson, Texas. In business since 1982, AMX specializes in …

Nov 29, 2003: C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963 Today's American Minute over at WND honors an Englishman, whose works, including Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Chronicles of …

Nov 27, 2003: Thanksgiving wishes Happy Thanksgiving to all of my family and friends! Major Thanksgiving wishes are extended to the forward-deployed men and women of our armed forces, …

Nov 22, 2003: Skin that Pod When I pick up a new 40 GB iPod, it will get sheathed in one of these.

Nov 19, 2003: Subway funny Have you seen the latest Subway commerical with the Airborne Ranger type talking about pulling the ripcord and nothing happening? I've seen this one …

Nov 19, 2003: CubeQuarium Joe Leblanc rescues a dead G4 Cube and builds Gil a new home.

Nov 11, 2003: R-E-S-P-E-C-T for LSU What a difference a week, and losses by perennial "contenders," makes. As Miami fell to Tennessee, Virginia Tech lost to Pittsburgh, and unranked …

Nov 5, 2003: Sim City without the pressure That's City Creator. Currently there are three different styles to choose from: Blankton, a modern metropolis, Snoland, your typical snowy village, …

Nov 4, 2003: Something Wicked Cool on MacDesktops Earlier this year, yours truly used an Apple PR hi-res product photo of the third-generation iPods to create a desktop picture. That picture was …

Nov 3, 2003: Ranked 4th, but no respect from the BCS Both the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll, and the AP sportswriters' poll have LSU at number 4, yet because of the "computer averages" used in their …

Oct 28, 2003: New Cube for Cube owners I love my Power Mac G4 Cube. Small. Elegant. Takes up little desk space, and you want it on your desk so it can be displayed as the work of art it is. …

Oct 28, 2003: Dell product "designers" Have you seen the commercial being plastered across the airwaves by Dell featuring the interns and Dell's product "designers"? The thought that …

Oct 25, 2003: Content Search on Amazon How do you know you're the father of a three month-old? When you don't have much time to read your favorite blogs, and note what you read. Lee posted …

Oct 25, 2003: Panther or Bust Lee relates his Mac OS X 10.3 Panther-buying experience from last night, where he also garnered an iSight. As for your humble host, our Panther hunt …

Oct 25, 2003: Jim and Lissa My friends Jim and Lissa have gone live with their new site, appropriately titled, Jim and Lissa. I'm going to miss seeing Jim at work each day, but …

Oct 25, 2003: More on the crock of the BCS Yes, once again this is where I ask the question: why is Miami in contention for the national championship? Why is Miami ranked #2 in the country by …

Oct 16, 2003: DropDMG 2.2 Michael has quietly updated his super-easy disk imaging utility to version 2.2.

Oct 9, 2003: J.S. who? The Dallas Stars crushed the Mighty Lucks of Anaheim and goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere in their season and home opener last night at American …

Oct 6, 2003: <strike>Nice article. Cool. Interesting</strike> So some yahoo is now comment spamming in random posts about discount life insurance. Congratulations, ingrate. Get a new IP, because you've been …

Oct 1, 2003: Innovation report good for a laugh In case you've been under a rock so far this week, some of the big news in the Mac/tech world is the new Cheskin report on the top innovative …

Sep 29, 2003: G5 intro movie Apple has posted the Power Mac G5 introduction movie online, for those who missed it from this year's WWDC.

Sep 29, 2003: Revolutions theatrical trailer The now-running theatrical trailer for The Matrix Revolutions is available online. QuickTime format only, as it should be.

Sep 26, 2003: ATPM hits Sweden ATPM contributing editor Matt Coates noted for the staff that the 'zine and his article on Xnippets made the Swedish edition of Macworld magazine. …

Sep 26, 2003: Comments spam I check my email this morning, and what do I find but some idiot has uploaded penis enlargement spam into the comments section of one of my posts …

Sep 26, 2003: RIFfed So the brilliant executive minds at Verizon Information Services finally decided on a plan for its IT personnel, and made said plan known to all of us …

Sep 24, 2003: Grayism I figured since so many people out there like to poke fun at George W.'s verbal blunders, turnabout was fair play: "My vision is to make the most …

Sep 19, 2003: In The Sun If you've been watching The Bourne Identity on Encore, or have the DVD, and you want to know the song that plays in the alternate ending, it's "In the …

Sep 19, 2003: Piro, Mac User Applelinks has a great interview with Fred Gallagher, the creator and meatspace alter ego of MegaTokyo's Piro. Fred discusses his relatively new …

Sep 19, 2003: On Conservative Democrats I realize that the above may seem like a misnomer in these days of the far Left hijacking of the Democratic Party, but such an animal does exist. In …

Sep 19, 2003: The Opinionated Amphibian Diatribes SuperToad has redesigned the Pond, giving up his home-baked PHP model for a site generated by PostNuke. At least this way, his PHP knowledge doesn't …

Sep 15, 2003: SpamSieve 2.0 Being the bad friend that I am, I failed to note Michael's release of SpamSieve 2.0 last week. At least I have the excuse of a new son. :D SpamSieve …

Sep 11, 2003: Infuriating So while the gloom of layoffs settled over the IT groups at VIS for the better part of a year, Chuck Lee, the former GTE CEO who sold us out to Bell …

Sep 7, 2003: Thoughts on War on Terror intelligence "If we do not have human-intelligence assets in the field, then it's hard for us to get any kind of warning, unless the bad guys are really loose on …

Sep 4, 2003: Texas Voter Guide 2003 If you are a Texas resident seeking more information on the proposed constitutional amendments we will be voting on come 13 September, point your …

Sep 3, 2003: ATPM 9.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is fresh from the oven. Two new staffers join up this month; Mary Tyler begins a series of …

Sep 3, 2003: But where are the Bluetooth versions? So Microsoft announced six new wireless optical desktop components, but none of them utilize Bluetooth for connectivity. Rather, one of your USB ports …

Sep 2, 2003: Tigers on TBS LSU is ranked #13 in the nation after stomping UL-Monroe 49-7 in their gimme-game season opener in Baton Rouge. So now TBS is carrying college games …

Sep 2, 2003: Skin your PowerBook Speaking of the 12-inch PowerBook G4, the folks at MacSkinz now have skinz available for the smallest PowerBook. I first saw the MacSkinz guys at …

Sep 2, 2003: 12-inch PowerBook can go to a gig Thanks to the fine folks at Trans Intl., the PowerBook G4 12" can now have more than 1 GB of RAM. This clears up one of the few misgivings I have …

Aug 29, 2003: iStockphoto praise iStockphoto saves the day for Eric. Though I haven't had much use for it lately, I have been a registered member since late last year and think it's a …

Aug 29, 2003: FTP in Macworld Michael has a run down on his FTP app usage over the past few years. Transmit is what I use when I want visual feedback, or to do some things, like …

Aug 29, 2003: weblog, not web log Kottke has the 411 and an open letter to certain news entities.

Aug 27, 2003: Safari quits fix Thanks to Ric for pointing to the new Apple KB article on unexpected Safari quits. This has suddenly started happening for me within the past week on …

Aug 27, 2003: Font fights cancer Speaking of Dan, he has hooked up with one of my favorite cartoonists, and all-around nice guy (have met him twice now!), Michael Jantze, creator of …

Aug 26, 2003: The Man Comes Around...and then some Dan notes what we can expect from The Man in Black later this year. Very cool!

Aug 25, 2003: Regarding those intolerant, narrow-minded Christians... "Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their …

Aug 15, 2003: East, West, Texas "Now see here...you gotcher East power grid--you know, the one that danged near blew up yesterday--and you gotcher West power grid--you know, the one …

Aug 6, 2003: CVN 76 online Don't know why I didn't come across it sooner, but the official Navy web site for the USS Ronald Reagan is online. Very thorough, full of info, …

Aug 5, 2003: Hurricane, Himicane, Deshawnacane I know the Toad has to be ticked off at the latest antics of one of our beloved Congresscritters, People's Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. …

Aug 5, 2003: There, there, that's a good little multiculturalist commie... Impeachable Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was singing the praises of doing what the rest of the world thinks, rather than abiding by our …

Aug 5, 2003: Good riddance, Herr Fritz Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-South Carolina, has announced he will not seek re-election next year. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Herr Fritz has …

Aug 4, 2003: Animated Star Wars My gorgeous bride pointed me to this story about a series of two- to three-minute cartoon shorts that the Cartoon Network will be doing in the Star …

Aug 4, 2003: ATPM 9.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out, and available online or in three dreamy flavors. Some good stuff here: Matt Coates …

Aug 4, 2003: Doing the browser shuffle? What is it about Safari all of a sudden? It's taking forever to pull up web pages. I've cleared the cache. I've quit and restarted Safari. The only …

Aug 4, 2003: Gee, who does this sound like? bq. "Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public …

Aug 4, 2003: Quote of the moment bq. "Life can be a do-it-yourself project, or life can be built by your Father in Heaven. The choice is yours to make freely. Personally, I rely on …

Aug 4, 2003: TypePad going live Ben and Mena's latest venture is in the growing pain of going live, with a "Preview Release Launch" later tonight. Jon's been a beta tester, as has …

Aug 1, 2003: Raena rocks! One of the great things about working on a publication like ATPM is that the diverse staff we have. Raena and I are on opposite sides of the political …

Jul 30, 2003: Remembering Bob Hope When I arrived at work today, the flags--American, Texas, Verizon--were all at half-staff, and I thought to myself, "What the...?" I totally missed …

Jul 30, 2003: Convert from Islam and die From the "Religion of Peace" department... The Barnabas Fund is reporting that a Palestinian Muslim who converted to Christianity was butchered and …

Jul 30, 2003: Nemo #1 In the ongoing smackdown of animated feature films, Pixar's Finding Nemo has moved past distributor Disney's The Lion King as the top-grossing …

Jul 30, 2003: Finder musings So I'm wondering... In the Finder found in the WWDC beta release of 10.3 Panther, will there be a way to take the iDisk out of the Places sidebar? …

Jul 29, 2003: Regarding the redistribution of your income... Amazing that our Founding Fathers had the foresight of government-funded social programs: bq. "...[T]he government of the United States is a definite …

Jul 29, 2003: The Newspaper of Rhetoric Bob Kohn writes on the New York Times' ongoing distortion of the news in how they present facts in stories, specifically those dealing with politics …

Jul 29, 2003: BuyMusic.com fall down, go boom USA Today reports that BuyMusic.com's first week in business has not been a bed of roses, as "early customers have found they can't transfer the tunes …

Jul 29, 2003: Truth in advertising? This is now posted outside my cubicle.

Jul 28, 2003: Critical Space This is the first of Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak novels I've read, even though it's the fifth in the series, but Critical Space had me hooked and …

Jul 28, 2003: Kill the album Steven offers Frank discussion on why some "artists" don't want to participate in the iTunes Music Store. Is the demise of the album format, if it …

Jul 28, 2003: One less key to push So you're using Safari. You've enabled tabbed browsing (who wouldn't?). You have a two-button, scroll-wheel, wireless Microsoft optical mouse. Using …

Jul 28, 2003: Stats, stats, stats! Jim has upgraded our server stat software to AWStats, and I am mightily impressed. I determined long ago that I would not become obsessed with …

Jul 28, 2003: Panther 32-bit MacMinute notes a Register report that Apple has confirmed Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will be a 32-bit OS, but with 64-bit libraries to support the new …

Jul 28, 2003: Us Wacky Cube owners Wired has a new article on the staying power of the Power Mac G4 Cube, and the lengths some Cube owners will go to keep their beloved system up to …

Jul 26, 2003: Billy copies Stevie again...? MacMinute reports on a CNET story that Bill Gates told analysts Microsoft is considering a music download service. Gee, wherever would he have gotten …

Jul 25, 2003: More BuyMusic.com madness Bob Levitus rips in to BuyMusic.com: bq. Simply put, while iTunes Music Store is the Rolls-Royce of online music, BuyMusic.com is a Yugo. Jon shows …

Jul 25, 2003: SuperDrive in any PowerBook G4 MacResQ is now offering a SuperDrive upgrade for any PowerBook G4. Too bad I know my employer would not pay for this for my TiBook/500. Eh, I'm …

Jul 25, 2003: The Panther honeymoon is over Having experienced my second kernel panic with the WWDC beta release of Mac OS X Panther 10.3, and the corruption of some of my emailboxes, I'll be …

Jul 24, 2003: Second-rate from the Windoze world once again... By now everyone has heard about buymusic.com, the Windows answer to Apple's iTunes Music Store. Don't be impressed; don't be worried. According to a …

Jul 22, 2003: Intelligence 101 Frank Gaffney, Jr. has an excellent summary of the intelligence side of the SOTU non-scandal.

Jul 22, 2003: Inventing scandals and conspiracies when there are none Yes, yes, a Demobrat favorite tactic: inventing a conspiracy, a scandal, when there is none. The Left has been attacking the President and his …

Jul 22, 2003: Two down... Iraqi citizens celebrated in Baghdad Tuesday evening as word spread that Saddam Hussein's feared and reviled sons, Odai and Qusai, were killed in a …

Jul 21, 2003: WebPhisch™ Yes, Virginia, you too can build a web browser without a single line of code. Thanks to Apple's WebKit SDK, available here (free registration), the …

Jul 21, 2003: Coulter talks Treason Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily interviewed Ann Coulter on his new radio show last week. A transcript is available here. Good stuff, including a quick …

Jul 18, 2003: Panther panic Just had my first kernel panic under the WWDC Panther beta on my PowerBook G4/500. This is the first kernel panic I've had with OS X on any Mac since …

Jul 17, 2003: Supremes, take note "[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere …

Jul 16, 2003: Happy Birthday, sweetheart! I love you, Kel.

Jul 14, 2003: Ongoing site maintenance: Killed the "Retrolook" tab in the tab navigation barSubsequently, killed the old style sheet and index2.html file; so now the look you see (if you're …

Jul 14, 2003: Treo 600 So forget the Kyocera 7135, and the upcoming Samsung SGH-i500 Palm OS smart phone. Jon has turned me on to Handspring/Palm's next beauty, the Treo …

Jul 11, 2003: Lee's Birthday Today marks the 8th anniversary of Lee's 25th birthday. He's being a bit of a curmudgeon about it, so be sure to stop by his blog and comment your …

Jul 10, 2003: Ronnie the bear The Santa Barbara Council of the Navy League of the United States, a civilian organization that supports Navy and Marine Corps families, has adopted …

Jul 10, 2003: ATPM milestones This month has seen a couple of milestones reached by yours truly, regarding my work with About This Particular Macintosh. First, the current issue, …

Jul 9, 2003: We're in trouble. Maybe. "Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young people, and I will tell you what the character of the next generation …

Jul 9, 2003: Useless baseball info FranX points me to Jayson Stark's latest Useless Baseball Information, a baseball statistician's treasure trove of interesting tidbits. I'm not really …

Jul 9, 2003: Crash caused Lynch's injuries Not to take anything away from Jessica Lynch and what she endured during Operation Iraqi Freedom, but a new Army report shows that her injuries were …

Jul 9, 2003: Time to turn off the Saudis Yet more and more proof that Saudi Arabia is no friend of the U.S. continues to surface. This time, it's in the form of billions given to Palestinian …

Jul 8, 2003: NetNewsWire fall down in Panther, go boom I have been running the WWDC preview release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther on my TiBook for over a week now, and I've noticed an odd problem with …

Jul 7, 2003: LXG Soundtrack only from Apple Apple has managed to nab exclusive rights to the soundtrack for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and will release it as a $9.99 download on the …

Jul 2, 2003: Libel protection for bloggers The 9th Circuit actually gets it right this time, with an extension of libel protection to online self-publishers, like moi, and those who participate …

Jul 2, 2003: Journalist war illogic Oh, this is rich: bq. "There was a disturbing attitude from the Pentagon toward unilaterals," said Campagna, Mideast program coordinator for the …

Jul 2, 2003: Left illogic California's population growth is almost exclusively because of foreign nationals. A goodly portion--some would say almost all--of those foreign …

Jul 2, 2003: ATPM 9.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh has been released. I enjoyed Matt Coates' column on the Apple iTunes Music Store, new staff member …

Jul 1, 2003: Yeah, big coincidence... I guess when you're an ineffectual Old World power, this kind of trite, childish behavior is the best you can do. (Thanks, Ricky.)

Jul 1, 2003: The right to keep and arm roos Programmers like to be efficient, which is a good thing. If programmers are efficient with their code, there is less work for them and less overhead …

Jun 30, 2003: Farewell, C & G The big news in the Mac market today is that longtime software publisher Casady & Greene is closing its doors, with all software reverting back to …

Jun 30, 2003: Yellow Pages hot commodity Knowing the company I work for, the n3rdling thought I would be interested in this article. Yes, the Yellow Pages business is a cash cow. One of the …

Jun 29, 2003: Why Star Wars Is Better Than Titanic The Titanic is big, but it doesn't have hyperdrive. Yoda could've used the Force to lift Titanic out of the water. Leia is a princess, a senator, a …

Jun 29, 2003: Comcast woes So at some point yesterday morning, our broadband connection died. We both had been using it in the early morning, checking email, pulling up web …

Jun 27, 2003: Condemn it Awwwww. The po' wittle U.N. buildings are falling apart, and they don't have no one to pay to fix them up... Guess who they want to foot the bill? …

Jun 27, 2003: I am Dilbert Our workgroup maintains a central server for others in the company to access important information re: our projects, software to install, etc. As part …

Jun 27, 2003: Mac OS X 10.3 beta first impressions So yesterday I installed the WWDC release of 10.3 on a spare G4/933 at the office. It simply flew. It is fast. Wicked fast. Below are some of my …

Jun 26, 2003: How pathetic am I? So I've spent part of last night and this morning, off and on, installing Fink, FinkCommander, and X11. Why? Why, to play XGalaga, of course, the open …

Jun 25, 2003: Server moving The site will be going down for a bit this evening as we move the server. Should be back up some time after dinner time, CST. UPDATE, 7:30 PM CST: And …

Jun 25, 2003: Going out of business twice as fast I've got to start reading more from James Lileks. Like with the previously-noted pen comment, he cracks me up: bq. Today they announce the new …

Jun 25, 2003: Corporate Behavior for Dummies Verizon Wireless rants, raves, and whines about how the FCC regulation for wireless local number portability--letting you keep your same phone number, …

Jun 25, 2003: Isn't technology cool? Buy the Baby Einstein CD set. (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and Bach) Rip all 4 CDs to MP3 with iTunes. Copy all 4 sets of MP3s to your iPod. Now you …

Jun 23, 2003: Self-branding for the road So how far would you go to promote your own personal brand? Some people nab custom license plates to slap on their vehicles in their respective …

Jun 19, 2003: That pesky double standard John Trever, Alburquerque, New Mexico, 19 June 2003 (Thanks, Rick)

Jun 19, 2003: Microsoft comes full circle with IE Marc Marshall brings up the excellent point that Microsoft has come full circle with regard to Internet Explorer. His is the last post in Macintouch's …

Jun 18, 2003: Kerry mum on Cape wind farm Presidential hopeful John Kerry is running around the country talking about renewable energy, like wind and solar power, proposing we get 20% of all …

Jun 18, 2003: Mailsmith 2.0 arrives Bare Bones has released v2.0 of my favorite email client. Major kudos to Michael for getting SpamSieve bundled with all Mailsmith 2.0 purchases …

Jun 18, 2003: IE6 gives me hives Ok, not really, but it's really ticking me off. Why is it that my site validates as XHTML 1.0 Trans, validates as CSS2, looks perfectly fine in …

Jun 17, 2003: Good riddance, IE, part III Speaking of the dress-code-aware genius that is Dan Benjamin (is that enough, Dan?), he offers up some delectable food for thought on the …

Jun 17, 2003: DNS Primer If you've ever been interested in how your email gets from your computer to someone else's, or how your browser knows how to load up a web site, you …

Jun 17, 2003: New jobs for friends! It's been a good couple of weeks for friends of the 'phisch. Steve landed a programming job with DirecTV's billing company in Charlotte, NC, and …

Jun 16, 2003: Latest look for retrophisch.com As I mentioned previously, I've been working on a site redesign. I decided today to take it live. (You can ignore the links in the archived post; …

Jun 16, 2003: Good riddance, IE, part deux This morning, Microsoft released a slightly-updated version of IE for Mac OS X, version 5.2.3. While no future development is planned, Microsoft will …

Jun 16, 2003: Tigers first to leave Omaha The LSU baseball team is swept for only the second time in all of its College World Series appearances, and their season is over. The Tigers dropped …

Jun 16, 2003: More blogging coverage Business Week Online has a good article on the growing pervasiveness of weblogs, and what they mean to mass media and consumers. I like Nick Denton's …

Jun 15, 2003: Good riddance, IE No more Internet Explorer for Macintosh. No more standalone Internet Explorer on Windows. I cannot tell you how heart-broken I am to hear this.

Jun 15, 2003: Test driving So this weekend my bride and I took some big baby steps. Furniture was purchased. Items were registered. And strollers were test-driven through the …

Jun 13, 2003: Death of PNG? Ric notes a News.com story about the impending expiration of the patent that controls the GIF file format, and what that may mean for the PNG graphics …

Jun 13, 2003: Cursive is dead So sayeth the n3rdling. (And CBS.) I have to agree; the only thing I write in cursive any more is my signature. My handwritten print is much better, …

Jun 13, 2003: The Samsung Way The current Business Week's cover story is about Korean tech company Samsung, and its ascendance from third-rate copycat to bleeding-edge envelope …

Jun 13, 2003: Change of address DNS address, that is. In preparation for the move to our "new" server, we're changing out our DNS name servers some time late this …

Jun 13, 2003: Brain usage So, at Dan's urging, I took Mind Media's Brain Persuasion Test. My results: Your Brain Usage Profile Auditory: 60% Visual: 40% Left: 50% Right: 50% …

Jun 13, 2003: Speaking of "<del>Rewriting</del> Living History" As to the truths contained in Hillary's ghost-written tome, consider this: On April 29, 1997, Hillary told CNN's Larry King that she would never run …

Jun 13, 2003: Quote of the moment "I will not read it, I will not buy it, I will not subsidize Hillary Clinton's retirement... Obviously this is a fictional version of what happened …

Jun 11, 2003: 7135 first impression As I stated previously, I went on my lunch break to the nearby Verizon Wireless store to check out the Kyocera 7135 SmartPhone. I was suitably …

Jun 11, 2003: De-iApping So today I de-iApped a bit. Viz: I had moved all of my contact and calendar info out of Palm Desktop, into OS X's Address Book and iCal. Then I set up …

Jun 11, 2003: Defend your family, go to jail At least in New York, Brooklyn to be specific. Ronald Dixon discovers an intruder in his son's room, going through drawers. Intruder rushes Mr. Dixon, …

Jun 11, 2003: Icon War This seems to be an appropriate use for Windows XP technology... (Thanks, Jason.)

Jun 10, 2003: Rome's iman supports suicide bombings From the Religion-of-Peace department: the leader of Europe's largest mosque stated support for suicide bombings against Israel in a recent sermon, as …

Jun 10, 2003: More freedom of, not freedom from D. James Kennedy reports on recent U.S. Department of Education guidelines "that require the Secretary of Education to issue guidance on …

Jun 10, 2003: Incredible teaser Steve Jobs' other company has released a teaser for their next film, The Incredibles, due out in November next year. Consider this your splatter …

Jun 9, 2003: Cup Hat Trick I know, it's not three years in a row, but it is three in the last nine. The New Jersey Devils stomped the Mighty Lucks of Anaheim 3-0 in Game 7 of …

Jun 9, 2003: Notes on San Diego So my lovely bride and I have this relatively new tradition (3 years old now) of going for a 4-day weekend the week of our anniversary. This year, our …

Jun 8, 2003: Back to Omaha, baby! The LSU Tigers crushed Baylor 20-5 in game three of their NCAA super regional to earn their 12th trip to the College World Series since 1986. Yeah, …

Jun 5, 2003: Mars Mission Patches Dan notes NASA's sense of humor with regard to Mars rover naming conventions and mission patches. This is what happens when guys our age, who grew up …

Jun 3, 2003: Can you feel the love? Barbra Streisand is suing a fellow environmentalist. Why? Because he took an aerial photograph of her Malibu coastline estate. Along with 12,000 other …

Jun 3, 2003: One for the conspiracy nuts Speaking of the Stanley Cup Finals, specifically the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, ponder this: ( Please note that I do not believe my theory, though …

Jun 3, 2003: Galloway moving to ESPN radio One of my favorite sports-talk hosts is moving from WBAP, 820 AM, to the station's ESPN radio affiliate. This stinks, since I never listen to ESPN …

Jun 3, 2003: Microsoft targets Google Is there anyone that Microsoft doesn't see as a competitor? bq. "We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide …

Jun 2, 2003: iMac no more So, yeah, maybe I'm just way behind in picking this up, but the CRT iMac, the box that helped bring Apple back, is no more. The only CRT Macintosh …

Jun 2, 2003: PowerBook prices lowered Apple has lowered the prices on the 12" and 15" PowerBooks, in some cases by as much as $300. Does this portend an update for the 15" model and speed …

Jun 2, 2003: Tigers win regional For the first time this season, the LSU Tigers win an extra-inning game, and in doing so take their 8th consecutive regional championship. The Tigers, …

May 29, 2003: I am a Total Geek More accurately, I possess 31.36095% geekish qualities. Take the test yourself, unless you're Erik.

May 29, 2003: Redesign underway I am working on a redesign of the site's layout and navigation, a preview of which can be found here. That page also automatically updates, just as …

May 29, 2003: Oh, stuff it, StuffIt Erik brings up a good point on using disk images, .dmg, for archival purposes, rather than Aladdin's DropStuff or StuffIt Deluxe. I haven't used …

May 28, 2003: Roy retires Patrick Roy, the best goaltender in professional hockey the past twenty years, announced his retirement today. "I've had a blast. It's been …

May 28, 2003: Gruber on Waferbaby The Waferbaby Corner monkey interviews John Gruber, of Daring Fireball fame. John is his usual, subtle self when refuting the "Cult of Macintosh," …

May 28, 2003: Rangers make history My good friend Francisco informed me this morning that our up-and-coming Texas Rangers have made baseball history. No MLB club has ever fielded a team …

May 28, 2003: Why am I not surprised? "Congressman flies U.N. flag" Sam Farr has done more in his six terms (about six too many) to undermine American sovereignty than former General …

May 27, 2003: You can always use that Ranger tab for TP... Colonel David Hackworth (USA-Retired) reports on the sissifying of the elite Army Rangers. While the rest of the U.S. Army has lowered its standards …

May 27, 2003: Giving back to those who gave all Too often during Memorial Day ceremonies, we tend to overlook those who survive the men and women who sacrificed their all for our nation. Michelle …

May 26, 2003: Take time to remember On this Memorial Day, please take some time out to remember those who have sacrificed all on behalf of our nation, as well as those they have left …

May 26, 2003: The real Threat Matrix Despite ABC's upcoming fall show of the same name, the real Threat Matrix is a document the President reads each morning. The crux of their briefings …

May 25, 2003: How many times do we have to go through this? Yet again, in light of all the whining coming from the Demobrats over the just-passed federal tax cut: * unconstitutional spending causes deficits * …

May 23, 2003: TypePad screenshots There are now some screenshots of the TypePad interface up at the main site, including the photo albums feature. Having just recently moved over some …

May 23, 2003: This Friday's Five 1. What brand of toothpaste do you use? Colgate Total. 2. What brand of toilet paper do you prefer? Angel Soft. 3. What brand(s) of shoes do you wear? …

May 23, 2003: Last Friday's Five The questions, with my answers, from last Friday's Five (which I only saw yesterday): 1. What drinking water do you prefer -- tap, bottle, purifier, …

May 22, 2003: PNG petition IE/Win doesn't fully support the PNG graphics format, and Zeldman points to an online petition that is now just shy of 7,000 signatures. (Yours truly …

May 21, 2003: Photos, Colophon So I had put off two minor projects for the site for a while: a colophon, and moving all my photos from my .Mac account over to this domain. As of …

May 20, 2003: Quote of the moment "Following someone's blog is like doing a TiVo season pass for a person." --Rael Dornfest

May 20, 2003: LSU SEC baseball champs (again) The LSU baseball team has won the regular season Southeastern Conference championship (again) for 2003, its first since 1997. LSU's head coach has …

May 20, 2003: Master the Services Menu My favorite n3rdling has a great primer on MacMerc about getting the most out of OS X's Services menu. I've recently begun relying on the Services …

May 20, 2003: NetNewsWire Feature Ideas One of the cool things about being an independent Macintosh software developer is that you can have more open and direct communication with your …

May 20, 2003: Mavs upset Spurs in Game 1 Go Mavs! After Najera missed his first free throw in the first quarter, the Mavs combined for 49 straight free throws to help catapult them to an …

May 20, 2003: VZ VOIP Seems our parent company is going to be installing a "next-generation tandem soft switch" in Dallas as its first step in providing nationwide Voice …

May 19, 2003: Reloaded [Possible spoilers] So my lovely bride and I caught The Matrix Reloaded Saturday night. My overall feelings with the film mirror Jason Kottke's. In …

May 19, 2003: Open letter from the NHL Stars' color man Daryl Reaugh has expertly captured what we should hear from the NHL front office. As one of my wife's colleagues put it: "Hockey is …

May 19, 2003: Armey on Clinton/Lewinsky Back on 15 September 1998, then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) held his weekly meeting with Capitol reporters. When a reporter provided …

May 19, 2003: New Cube? I'm not one to spread Mac rumors; heck, I wrote an entire column about the dangers of rumor-mongering and how it affects Apple's bottom line. I'll …

May 18, 2003: Displaying Apache logs in NNW Brent links to a novel proof-of-concept usage of his flagship application, showing how versatile NetNewsWire can be.

May 18, 2003: Open in new tab in Safari Some times, the solution is so simple, we overlook it. Brent Simmons has a quick and dirty tutorial on how to get Safari to open an external links …

May 16, 2003: MT 2.63 and recent-update keys At the same time I decided to upgrade my MovableType engine to 2.63, I donated some funds to Ben and Mena. By doing so, I received a couple of keys to …

May 16, 2003: Gigabit Cube! It appears that Jeff has the only Gigabit Cube in the world. Now if we could just get someone to make the rest of us an upgrade. Too bad Apple won't …

May 15, 2003: TypePad Ben and Mena's latest venture sounds intriguing, especially if the basic service is something that runs only $7 a month. I'd be interested in …

May 15, 2003: iTunes music sharing So I wanted to borrow my buddy Jim's CD of Seussical the Musical, in light that it's coming to town this month, and my wife and I want to take in one …

May 15, 2003: Taking the Times to task So many blasting the New York Times, so little time... Ann Coulter: The Times has now willingly abandoned its mantle as the "newspaper of record," …

May 14, 2003: The word for today... ...is retromingent. Courtesy of Anu's free A.W.A.D. service: retromingent (re-tro-MIN-jent) adjective: Urinating backwards. noun: An animal that …

May 13, 2003: Jargonary Can't keep all of that techno-computer jargon straight in your head? Ever wonder what a PNG is? You need Jargonary, a shareware product for both Mac …

May 11, 2003: Prom Night So I took my wife to the prom last night. No, we didn't go to a high school as chaperones. We went to the 2d Chance Prom that benefits the Kidd's Kids …

May 9, 2003: Rumsfeld Sorry for Embarrassing Anti-War Celebrities You can read the full story here. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized to the celebrity community for the outcome of the war yesterday at …

May 9, 2003: Dictionary for Comicholics For thorough research of words in the world of comics, be sure to use Ka-BOOM! The Dictionary of Champions.

May 9, 2003: Dozens Dead in Chicago Meatwave As if terrorism wasn't enough to worry about, now we have this to contend with.

May 8, 2003: Quote of the moment "The Christian faith is not about mere intellectual assent to a set of doctrines, but about a daily walk with this person Jesus. It's about living in …

May 8, 2003: Is it or isn't it? (Hint: It is...) Brian has a good analysis and links of the infamous 9th Circuit Court's refusal for a full court hearing on California's "assault" weapons ban. By …

May 8, 2003: More for Kelly Can't Stop Lovin' You Hey! There's a time and place for everything. For everyone We can push with all our might, but nothin's gonna come Oh no, …

May 7, 2003: One million in one week Yeah, I know everyone has read how the Apple Music Store has sold more than a million songs in its first week. But Lee has broken down what that …

May 7, 2003: ATPM 9.05 Crikey! I completely forgot to mention that the May issue of About This Particular Macintosh has been published. Doh! I talked Lee in to interviewing …

May 7, 2003: Synergy vs PTHiTunesNotifier So Lee asked what made Synergy worth $5 when PTHiTunesNotifier was free and did essentially the same thing. So I decided to run down a quick …

May 6, 2003: Freedom of, not freedom from Jon Dougherty has an outstanding piece on the Supreme Court's recent unconstitutional ruling of the Ten Commandments display case in Kentucky.

May 6, 2003: Synergy Michael turned me on to Synergy, a menu-bar utility for controlling iTunes, and it freaking rocks! Well worth the $5 shareware fee. One feature is the …

May 6, 2003: InDVDiana Jones My gorgeous mother-to-be spouse points out that Lucasfilm is releasing the Indiana Jones trilogy on DVD! Slated for release on November 4th, this will …

May 6, 2003: iLoo I wish I was making this up. From the idiot savants at Microsoft UK. (Note that the emphasis is not on "savants.") (Thanks, Ricky.)

May 6, 2003: And they're such a peaceful people... You certainly can't blame the Israelis for decimating the Palestinian female ranks: Each year, dozens and probably hundreds of brutal "honor killings" …

May 3, 2003: Those incredibly intelligent, wonderfully sensitive celebrities "I'm getting more famouser by the day." --Avril Lavigne "I quit flying five years ago. Personally, I don't want to die with tourists." --Billy Bob …

May 2, 2003: Freedom is not free: a reminder Retired USAF Major Brian Shul delivered an address at March AFB on Veteran's Day 2001. Powerful stuff: Yes, I believe God has blessed this nation in …

May 2, 2003: iPod 1.3 software While I'm very glad Apple provided us old iPod users with a way to sync and listen to AAC-encoded files, the one other feature I'm envious of, in the …

May 2, 2003: I have an accent? A couple of days ago I was talking to my little sister on the phone (okay, she's 27, but she'll always be my "little" sister), and she stated that I …

May 2, 2003: The Political Quiz Show Brian pointed me to this political quiz, established in 1994 by Democratic consultant Victor Kamber and his Republican counterpart, Bradley S. …

May 1, 2003: Unexpected resistance Ann skewers the leftists once again over the U.S. victory in Iraq: They said chemical weapons would be used against our troops. That didn't happen. …

May 1, 2003: Apple's music Fortune My lovely bride pointed me to this Fortune article on the new iTunes Music Service. Obviously written for publication before the service was …

May 1, 2003: iTunes Music Store pricing Lee notes David Pogue's column on the individual song pricing structures at Apple's new online music store. Good points all around.

May 1, 2003: Dropping out of the job market? There is a story from the NY Times talking about a growing segment of the American population doing exactly that. Of note: "People use the …

Apr 30, 2003: France provided intel to Saddam? "The London Guardian found documents showing Paris fed intelligence to Baghdad before the war. Iraq got diplomatic secrets and military guidance from …

Apr 30, 2003: No more Safari-ing for me So after three crashes in a row today, I've decided to dump Safari as my main browser. Despite this being v73, aka, Public Beta 2, and fairly rock …

Apr 29, 2003: S.W.A.T. Another trailer, this time for the Sam Jackson-Colin Farrell-LL Cool J-Michelle Rodriguez vehicle, S.W.A.T. Loosely based on the 1970s television show …

Apr 29, 2003: T3 International Trailer Yeah, baby! Arnold's back in the 3d installment of the Terminator series. Point your QuickTime-enabled browser here to view the …

Apr 28, 2003: Maher Admits Naivete, Shocks Conservatives Everywhere The notorious Bill Maher admitted on his April 25th show that he was incorrect in his belief that there is a right to privacy in the Constitution. …

Apr 27, 2003: Still more Saddam/al-Qaida ties Yes, Virginia, there are still people who believe that there were no ties between bin Laden's al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. I wonder what they'll say …

Apr 25, 2003: Daddy's little Stars fan Start'em young, I say. And yes, this means there will be a little phisch swimming in our pod later this year.

Apr 24, 2003: Back off, you Rebel scum! Thanks to Carbon Copy Cloner, my TiBook has gone from four partitions to three, without missing a beat. Well, there was obviously some downtime, but …

Apr 24, 2003: DropDMG 2.1 Michael has quietly updated DropDMG to version 2.1. Enhancements include the ability to create Internet-enabled disk images, and the ability to encode …

Apr 24, 2003: al-Sahaf's new job Brian discovered that former Iraqi (Dis)Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has a new job.

Apr 23, 2003: We do have it good Bill Palmer offers an excellent summary of why it's so great to be a Mac user.

Apr 22, 2003: The West is looking good My favorite hockey team clinched its series in 6 games, and is now the #1 seed in the playoffs, thanks to Anaheim knocking off the defending Stanley …

Apr 22, 2003: Vindigo 2.0 is 1 A year ago Vindigo 2.0 was launched. I'm a happy customer, with the software humming away on my Palm m505.

Apr 18, 2003: The Bush Regime Change Tour First it was Afghanistan, where the U.S. military accomplished in less than three months what the former Soviet Union failed to do in a decade. In the …

Apr 17, 2003: For Kelly THROUGH THE NIGHT Hey, I'm the guy who found a treasure in your eyes, And that's no surprise. There's something 'bout you, clearly. I can't recall all …

Apr 16, 2003: Photoshop 7 tip I'm a complete Photoshop novice, often getting FranX or Lee to walk me through stuff. One observation I thought I would share about Photoshop 7 …

Apr 16, 2003: Baker Bros. redux So, on my own for lunch again. Three bucks in my pocket. Sure, it's enough for fast food--McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's--but I'm not eating at the …

Apr 16, 2003: Slide show screensavers Looking for a little help from the retrophisch readership (all 3 of you): I'd like to create a slide show-style screensaver, like those that come …

Apr 16, 2003: USB 2.0 already on new Macs? Hyok Ki Chung thinks so. Quoted on Macintouch, Chung analyzes a Korean news article: While browsing a Korean Mac magazine site, I found this …

Apr 16, 2003: Preschool Pacifism "Welcome to the new preschool curriculum: play dough, finger painting and pacifism 101."

Apr 16, 2003: Macintouch does XML Ric Ford notes that he is experimenting with a XML feed for his renowned Macintouch site. Plug this in to NNW, boys and girls: …

Apr 16, 2003: Aw, no more Saddam money for Palestinian terrorism Saddam Hussein was providing about US $1.5 million a month to various Palestinian agents and supporters, and now that money channel is cut off. And …

Apr 16, 2003: Still no Saddam/terrorism ties, right? It may have taken 18 years, but the U.S. has captured Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking. Abbas is wanted for …

Apr 15, 2003: New York Office Space I don't live in New York. Don't work in New York. Plan to never, ever live or work in New York. Yet I found this article by Joel Spolsky, on searching …

Apr 15, 2003: Tax Day Desktop Not sure what compelled me to suddenly share what my desktop looks like, but here it is: Click on the above pic for a full-size image. That's Zane, …

Apr 15, 2003: Baker Bros. = Yum! My buddy FranX is celebrating five years of service with the company today, at a special lunch for folks in his division who also qualify. So I was on …

Apr 15, 2003: Geektels If having high-speed 'net access while traveling is extremely important to you, then Geektels is a resource you must use. (via Damien via Dave)

Apr 14, 2003: No multiple flag flying in Peoria, AZ bq. "In the midst of the War in Iraq, the City of Peoria, Arizona, has declared war on the First Amendment by ordering one of its citizens to cease …

Apr 14, 2003: Second Safari public beta Apple released this morning the second public beta of its Safari web browser. You can download it here. The official public release of tabbed browsing …

Apr 10, 2003: We told you so? U.S. Marines have uncovered what is believed to be weapons-grade plutonium. U.S. Marines have located a complex of tunnels underneath an Iraqi nuclear …

Apr 10, 2003: And he works because...? So I just found out that the attorney in the office next to my wife's is worth, combined with his mother, nearly US $4 billion. The Schaefflers are in …

Apr 10, 2003: Fun with spammers This isn't necessarily an anti-spam measure; it's more along the lines of revenge. From the latest Dilbert newsletter comes this reader gem: Here's a …

Apr 9, 2003: Daring Fireball Double Whammy Gruber's last two posts are right on the money. First is his PR-speak to English translation of Quark's press release about QuarkXPress 6. Of note: We …

Apr 9, 2003: Liberation Iraq is free from Saddam's tyranny. Dayna has the play by play. WND has a summary. But of course the Iraqi people didn't wish to be freed from …

Apr 8, 2003: War Zone Entertainment It never ceases to amaze me how people can find ways to amuse themselves, even during times of danger, blood, and death.

Apr 8, 2003: More minor site work I don't know what it is, but sometimes I get this minimalist bug. So yesterday I decided to kill the parchment background (thanks again, Lee!) and …

Apr 7, 2003: Embedded PowerBook Thanks to Mark for the pointer to this photo gallery of USA Today photography Jack Gruber, who is using his PowerBook G4 12" to send pictures to the …

Apr 7, 2003: For those who confuse prime time TV with reality:

Apr 7, 2003: Saddam has left the capital... Now that U.S. forces own the Iraqi capital, the Hindustan Times believes the dictator has already fled Baghdad.

Apr 7, 2003: No links between Saddam and terrorists, eh? US Military Captures 'Foreign' Fighters in Iraq US says it has captured non-Iraqi fighters AL QAEDA TERROR CAMP 'LINK TO SADDAM' US says it found …

Apr 7, 2003: Smoking gun, any one? Reuters notes that NPR is reporting U.S. Marines have discovered 20 BM-21 missiles loaded with sarin and mustard gas. The Marines were working, …

Apr 6, 2003: iBox Wired reports on John Fraser's attempt to build a new pizza-box, or "headless" Mac, using replacement parts for older systems. Good luck getting past …

Apr 3, 2003: History Wow. (Mucho grande gracias to Ricky.)

Apr 3, 2003: Soapbox If I wasn't so happy with Movable Type, I would definitely be looking at Hiveware's Soapbox. You can learn more here.

Apr 2, 2003: Copywrong Zeldman calls it. Disney is not your friend.

Apr 2, 2003: Mobile mobile numbers All I can say is, it's about freaking time. I wonder if I could push this issue in June, should I change mobile providers after plan/phone shopping. …

Apr 2, 2003: ATPM 9.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh has been released. Check out Eric's review of NetNewsWire, Lee & Darryl's review of Studio MX, …

Apr 2, 2003: A-ha! Now I know why I like "I Drove All Night" by Celine Dion so much--it's a Roy Orbison song. It was driving me batty; I knew this wasn't an original …

Apr 2, 2003: Very minor site work So this morning I took care of two minor items I'd been meaning to get to. First, I used Hiveware's awesome Enkoder to encode my email address (bottom …

Apr 1, 2003: Shameful confession Damn you, Daimler-Chrysler. Thanks to your commercials, I cannot get Celine Dion's "I Drove All Night" out of my head. Now the MP3 is in rotation in …

Apr 1, 2003: New BBEdit pricing option Bare Bones continues to push the envelope of customer service with this new pricing option for their flagship product, BBEdit. (via Gruber)

Apr 1, 2003: Dallas Auto Show 2003 This past Sunday I met up with my friend Michael at the Dallas Convention Center for the annual Dallas Auto Show. Not really in the market for a …

Mar 31, 2003: SmartyPants 1.2.2 I know I'm half a month late in noting this, but Gruber confesses to why such a quick update to the 1.2.1 release of SmartyPants was necessary: See, …

Mar 31, 2003: Gruber interviews Simmons John Gruber recently interviewed Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire. "Interview" might be stretching it a tad; it comes off more like the two of …

Mar 29, 2003: Switch of a different sort So today I completed a switch of my calendar and contact information from Palm Desktop to OS X's Address Book and iCal. After getting everything …

Mar 27, 2003: Earthquakes rocking France WBAP is reporting this morning: Earthquakes are being reported in France in over 10 different major areas. These earthquakes are measuring in at over …

Mar 27, 2003: LSU alumni in Afghanistan Speaking of the Fighting Tigers, several of the 500 members of the Louisiana Army National Guard's 769th Engineer Battalion are LSU students and …

Mar 27, 2003: Brent's Birthday Jon notes that yesterday was Brent Simmons' birthday, so I'd like to express my best wishes to him as well. NetNewsWire absolutely rocks, I'm becoming …

Mar 26, 2003: Macworld Expo no more? Well, there won't be an expo this summer in New York called "Macworld Expo." Instead, IDG and Apple today announced CREATE. Not that I'm likely to go, …

Mar 26, 2003: Why you want to buy the extended warranty

Mar 26, 2003: The Great California Gray-Out underway Doubtful that it will actually happen, but the California Secretary of State has cleared the way for a recall of Governor Gray Davis. Best of luck to …

Mar 26, 2003: Resuming the Safari So since the weekend, Safari has been giving me major headaches. It seemed to particularly dislike my using Movable Type, and viewing slide shows on …

Mar 26, 2003: Moore Lies So, by the Academy's own definition, Bowling for Colombine isn't a documentary. Yet it is nominated, and wins, an Academy Award. Ok, fine, the …

Mar 25, 2003: Anarchists and Traitors, Unite! I believe these pictures, provided by the ultra-left-leaning, obviously anti-law enforcement, SF Indymedia branch, are sufficient to show that the …

Mar 25, 2003: Can you hear me NOW? I've received enough copies of the Bush/Saddam Verizon Wireless spoof graphic. You can stop now. Thanks.

Mar 25, 2003: One more on Jury Duty Something I forgot to note in the previous jury duty posts, but I thought worth mentioning: the judge overseeing the case we sat for, Joe Briggs, sent …

Mar 25, 2003: Dark Side Switch The Lords of the Sith are ripping off Apple with their own commercials. (Note: Ricky's warned me that the rest of newgrounds.com isn't …

Mar 24, 2003: Jury Duty V Just to wrap up the "Jury Duty" saga: we concluded the trial this past Thursday, deliberating for about 10 minutes, and we found the defendant not …

Mar 24, 2003: Photorescue Now this is something I could have used last year, when I lost pictures of my grandmother's visit to Dallas.

Mar 22, 2003: Quote of the moment "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." --Winston Churchill

Mar 21, 2003: WiFi in rural Iowa Rod Keller documents the external expansion of his home LAN via WiFi. Very cool. (Thanks, Ric)

Mar 21, 2003: Mount.app Thanks to Jeremy Hedley, I've discovered Mount.app, a faster means of mounting disk images than using Disk Copy. Just as Michael's DropDMG is easier …

Mar 21, 2003: Say Thanks Whether or not you are in favor of the war with the Hussein regime, at least say thank you to the troops who are there in your place: Defend America …

Mar 21, 2003: The American Flag "This flag...the symbol of the hopes of man. This cloth of dreams for freedom, justice and opportunity. Its stars like beacons guiding us through …

Mar 19, 2003: It has begun Bombs over Baghdad tonight (tomorrow morning in Iraq). Apparently, intelligence on targets of opportunity was such that cruise missiles and F-117 …

Mar 19, 2003: First firefight of the Iraq War? London's Evening Standard is reporting on a firefight that broke out between Iraqi forces in Basra and members of the British Special Boat Service …

Mar 18, 2003: A barber shop A barber shop. That's what I want. Not a salon. Not another Supercuts, Great Clips, Sports Clips, or any other generic salon-style chain that have all …

Mar 18, 2003: Jury Duty IV Trial was going pretty good this morning. Got through 4 witnesses, then the defendant had some kind of seizure (I think maybe diabetic/blood sugar), …

Mar 18, 2003: Beleaguered Gateway closing stores, reducing work force I figured it was high time that a computer manufacturer other than Apple had the word "beleaguered" in a headline or story about them. According to a …

Mar 18, 2003: Jury Duty III I made the cut; I'm one of the six jurors for this misdemeanor trial starting later this morning. The defendant is charged with Deadly Conduct. From …

Mar 17, 2003: Jury Duty II So I reported for jury duty this morning, fully expecting to sit around all day while they waded through the list. This based on horror stories of …

Mar 16, 2003: Jury Duty So later this morning I'll be heading out to report for jury duty. Like most folks, it's not something I'm looking forward to, but it's one of our …

Mar 14, 2003: Extremely useful iTunes AppleScripts MacMinute is reporting on a set of three AppleScripts for iTunes released by Trinfinity Software. I've downloaded them, used them, and am grateful. …

Mar 14, 2003: Happy Birthday, Eric! Belated birthday wishes to friend and fellow ATPM staffer, Eric Blair. So what, you're old enough to buy beer now, right? ;^) Hope you had a great …

Mar 13, 2003: Even the French aren't this bad This is just disgraceful. Utterly disgraceful. Get it through your neanderthal-thick skulls, slugheads: men and women in uniform do not decide whether …

Mar 13, 2003: Mediated persona Gibson ruminates on how everyone now can have their own mediated persona, thanks to the meme of the weblog.

Mar 13, 2003: Font fix Thanks to Mark Newhouse's article on Unix fonts, I was inspired to revisit the fonts called for in the site's CSS style sheet. Now, OS X users should …

Mar 12, 2003: Walk away! Charles Krauthammer delivers good advice to President Bush: Walk away, Mr. President. Walk away from the U.N. Security Council. It will not authorize …

Mar 12, 2003: What are they thinking? Mars bar, meet Snickers Almond. Snickers Almond, the Mars bar. Why would a company create a product that not only competes directly with one of its …

Mar 12, 2003: Blaser LRS2 From the Reach Out And Touch Someone Department: One of the things that brought on the previous post was the review Guns Magazine did of the …

Mar 12, 2003: Firearms 'zines need to increase online presence Something I've noticed from the various firearms magazines I read: their online presences suck. The various publications from Harris, for instance, …

Mar 12, 2003: The Unix Guru's Guide to Sex % unzip % strip % touch % grep % finger % mount % fsck % more % yes % umount % sleep I IM'ed my wife this with the qualifier that it came from Jim and …

Mar 12, 2003: Done right, indeed Coming in under the radar Monday was this report that the United Nations has redesigned its logo and has a new motto. (Thanks, Michael)

Mar 11, 2003: Open, open, open... "Training In Progress" cries the banner outside the new Grapevine location of P.F. Chang's. Two minutes from the office, about 15 minutes from the …

Mar 11, 2003: Freedom Fries: It's Official Even members of Congress are beginning to call them "freedom fries," and even "freedom toast." (Yes, I know French fries aren't really French.) …

Mar 11, 2003: Large Silent Sinister Menacing Floating Presence Thanks to Gary and Chuq, I blew water out my nose when reading this. Highly entertaining.

Mar 11, 2003: Robinson: NYT op-ed "stupid" You can always count on programmers to be logical. (Well, good ones, anway.) Gary Robinson sallies forth: Saddam is today in a position where he is …

Mar 11, 2003: Hilton, Borders, & McDonald's go WiFi MacMinute notes a c|net report that Hilton Hotels, Borders Books & Music, and McDonald's are partnering with Intel to deliver WiFi (802.11b) …

Mar 11, 2003: WeatherPop One of my favorite pieces of software has been updated. WeatherPop has been revved to version 1.7. The Advance version is only $8 and gets you: …

Mar 10, 2003: Safari's wrong typography John Gruber makes an outstanding case for one of the few things I don't like about Safari. One thing that Safari has gotten wrong ever since it …

Mar 10, 2003: NewTen I'm finding more and more stuff that makes me antsy for my forthcoming MessagePad 2100...

Mar 10, 2003: Stars make trades One day before the NHL's trading deadline, the Stars make some moves to set themselves up for their run for the Stanley Cup. Currently second overall, …

Mar 10, 2003: MobileTracker.net My new favorite n3rd reports that his mobile phone weblog has a new and permanent home: MobileTracker.net. Jon also shares this insight on the T68i, …

Mar 10, 2003: Iraqi soldiers already surrendering Sent to me by Michael and noted by Jon, the UK's Sunday Mirror is reporting that Iraqi soldiers have already begun to surrender: Terrified Iraqi …

Mar 10, 2003: Does it come in desert camou? Lee notes a Wired story on a lone PowerBook user in the Third Infantry Division, currently operating out of Kuwait. As someone who almost became one …

Mar 9, 2003: Tax Cuts Lessons II Twenty thousand people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due. The team was about to mail refunds when the …

Mar 7, 2003: Safari v64 Yes, another leaked beta version of Safari. Yes, I have a copy. No, I'm not posting it for widespread dissemination; my site runs via Darwin/Apache on …

Mar 7, 2003: Quote of the moment "Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." --Thomas Jefferson

Mar 7, 2003: Honey, can you take the AmEx out of the freezer? The March 3 issue of Business Week features a blurb regarding controlling your credit card usage. In the past, the solution to credit card overusage …

Mar 7, 2003: Camino 0.7 Hot on the heels of the official rename, the Camino crew has released an updated version of the in-beta browser. Highlights to this update include: a …

Mar 6, 2003: Re: Tonight's Presidential press conference I thought President Bush raised two very important points during the press conference regarding Saddam and the United Nations. One, the Security …

Mar 6, 2003: For the millionth time... You do not have a constitutional right to a job or free/cheap health care, and it is not the job of the federal, state, or local government to provide …

Mar 6, 2003: Multipage-view Safari I can't wait to hear what Michael and Gruber have to say about this really good mock-up. I'm torn on this idea. As presented, it takes up too much …

Mar 5, 2003: Monopoly money coming to our shores Yes, Virginia, beginning this fall, you can have your own wallet of rainbow-colored twenties... The new bills will be introduced on 27 March, and …

Mar 5, 2003: Zero intelligence A six-year-old boy has been suspended for having a plastic knife in his bookbag at school. A plastic knife he obtained in the school cafeteria. As the …

Mar 5, 2003: World's Smallest Combination Lock From the Your Tax Dollars At Work Department: Sandia Labs had developed the world's smallest combination lock, and hopes to have a commercial partner …

Mar 5, 2003: Required Reading Asked by Andrew Cuomo to pen an essay for a book on the future of the Democratic Party, Peggy Noonan, former Democrat, has delivered in spades. This …

Mar 5, 2003: Yeah, we're "rushing" (thanks, Brian)

Mar 5, 2003: Something rotten in the state of Japan? Gibson offers a "readymade" novel to anyone willing, founded upon this news item from Tokyo.

Mar 5, 2003: Tax Cuts - A Simple Lesson in Economics It's been floating around the ether for a while, but it bears repeating: Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, …

Mar 4, 2003: Camino lives It's official: 03 March 2003: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the project [formerly known as Chimera] has been renamed Camino.

Mar 4, 2003: SpyHunter! MacMinute reports that Aspyr is going to bring the updated version of the arcade classic to the Mac! w00t! I wasted many a quarter on the full-size, …

Mar 4, 2003: Apple to revolutionize the music biz? If this story in the L.A. Times is to be believed, Apple is going to change the way Mac users buy music. The new service was developed by Apple …

Mar 3, 2003: n3rd Cell Station Jon Gales has spun off from his regular blog a new weblog devoted to mobile communication technology. Seeing as how I'm four months away from the end …

Mar 3, 2003: On passwords Thanks to JG & Co. at MacMerc for the link to a CreativePro story on safe password creation and usage. Good stuff here. Read and implement. (This …

Mar 3, 2003: No more Caffeine Caffeine Software has suspended operations. Bad news for users of TIFFany, Curator, and PixelNhance. While I personally haven't used any of their …

Mar 3, 2003: Delta guinea airline for new security There aren't many things that the ACLU and I agree on, but this is one of them. (via Xeni)

Mar 3, 2003: Eric/raoli Fellow ATPM staffer Eric Blair is blogging at raoli.com. The jury is still out on what "raoli" means. :)

Mar 2, 2003: ATPM 9.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now online. Yours truly has stepped into the Managing Editor's shoes, so if there's something …

Mar 2, 2003: TextWrangler Like Michael, I like Bare Bones' replacement for BBEdit Lite, though I also wish it included support for AppleScript. Like Jan, while I like …

Feb 28, 2003: Kill the Department of Education As if we needed more reasons to eliminate a bureacratic sinkhole in the federal government. From the Washington Times, 2/19/03: "More than a billion …

Feb 28, 2003: Newton still going strong Yesterday marked the 5th anniversary of Apple's discontinuing production of the Newton, the forerunner of today's PDAs. Speaking of today's PDAs, some …

Feb 28, 2003: Sound advice from across the Pond "Supposing I came along in August 2001 and said...that there was an al-Qaeda terrorist network; no one would have heard of it. Suppose I said that we …

Feb 28, 2003: On government spending "Frankly, when my family's income goes down, so does our spending as we tighten our belts. Why is it that government believes its spending of our …

Feb 27, 2003: Let the Hollywonk backlash begin! "Americans objecting to the anti-war rhetoric of Hollywood celebrities are no longer remaining silent, but are starting to fight back with their own …

Feb 27, 2003: For or against, just tell us the truth Ann nails the Demos yet again on their two-faced approach to war with Saddam: "After voting in favor of the war with Iraq right before the November …

Feb 27, 2003: Look at my incredibly massive ego! Jerry Jerk, er, Jones, has released the NFL's all-time leading rusher from the Dallas Cowboys. Players take note: this is how Jerry rewards your …

Feb 27, 2003: This is just wrong You know, go ahead and protest potential war with Saddam Hussein's regime. But when you take it out on little kids just because their parents are in …

Feb 27, 2003: Banana Junior 6000 Tech gear lust can begin at an early age. For me, in 1985, I wanted a Banana Junior 6000. (Thanks to Gruber for the link.) My personal favorites are …

Feb 27, 2003: P800 More gear lust, this time courtesy of Steven and The Register. With our current mobile contract up in June, I'll be shopping around for the best plan, …

Feb 27, 2003: Good-bye, Mr. Rogers Beloved children's programming legend Fred Rogers died early this morning at age 74, from stomach cancer. Song composer, puppeteer, Presbyterian …

Feb 26, 2003: tchotchke Lee was not familiar with the term, so I pointed him to Webster's, which defines it as a noun, Yiddish in entymology etymology, and means "trinket" or …

Feb 24, 2003: Those lovable French... Brian informed me that Rush's stand-in nailed the French today: Q: What did the leader of France say when Germany invaded? A: Table for 100,000? Q: …

Feb 24, 2003: R1 Michael has me gear-lusting after this. I've always felt more like a rice rocket kind of guy than one who'd straddle a hog. I'd like it in Liquid …

Feb 24, 2003: Don't waste your money Please don't shell out ten smackers for MacMaid when Erik gives you an AppleScript that'll do the same thing for free.

Feb 24, 2003: Monty Python in church? It's pretty cool when your pastor uses a Monty Python reference in his sermon. In this case, it was the "Department of Redundancy Department." Tim was …

Feb 24, 2003: Former Star hits 1,000 Former Dallas Star Joe Nieuwendyk, currently with the New Jersey Devils, reached the 1,000-point plateau last night with a goal against Magnificent …

Feb 21, 2003: 54321 I just saw the motorcross commercial on Fox Sports (Southwest) for their show "54321." The motorcross biker clapping at the end, after the doofus …

Feb 21, 2003: Froogle Froogle, currently in beta, is a Google project for product price comparison.

Feb 21, 2003: gurgle Burger King has joined McDonald's on my places of never to eat again.

Feb 20, 2003: What a great kid Mark Newhouse's daughter Jordan donated a 14-inch ponytail to Locks for Love on Valentine's Day, and Mark has documented the event in the form of a …

Feb 20, 2003: Liberal radio talk show hosts? Ann cracks me up: "If liberals cared about ideas or knew any facts, they would cease being liberals. Even the audience for the left's …

Feb 20, 2003: iChat logs I share Michael's iChat irritation. One of the things I love about Fire is that I can drag a log file onto BBEdit and have it open up in the text …

Feb 20, 2003: Cool new PDF trick Michael notes Bill Bumgarner's example on using Mac OS X 10.2.4's new PDF Workflow feature. I tried out Bill's example, since it plays into my own web …

Feb 20, 2003: Doing the right thing, rather than the "popular" thing Doing the right thing is oftentimes not the easy thing to do. With regard to Saddam Hussein, President Bush's course of action is the right thing to …

Feb 20, 2003: Hypocrisy, anyone? Riddle me this: why was it okay for President Clinton to go into the Balkans without approval of the U.N. Security Council, but it's not okay for …

Feb 20, 2003: NetNewsWire + Safari = Power Ok, I've finally used NetNewsWire consistently for a couple of weeks, and now I'm hooked. Like Michael admitted, my vision on NNW's potential was …

Feb 19, 2003: Stolen Computer Registry Lose or have stolen your laptop--or desktop, for that matter? You can register the serial number with the Stolen Computer Registry. That great system …

Feb 19, 2003: Marijuana DOES lead to harder drug use A study by Washington University (of St. Louis, MO), published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, of 311 Australian twin pairs, …

Feb 19, 2003: California Patriot You have to admire and respect a conservative startup at one of the bastions of leftist thinking. They give away the 4,000 copies they print to …

Feb 19, 2003: Four-eyes A little over two weeks ago, I joined the ranks of the bespeckled: Eyemasters wanted $90 for the non-polarized clip-on sunglasses for them! Thanks to …

Feb 19, 2003: Freedom fries Some times, real life is just too much fun to have to make up fiction. (Yes, I know I'm paraphrasing; sue me. Thanks, Jim.)

Feb 19, 2003: Well, Virtual PC is dead... Microsoft is going to acquire Connectix's Virtual PC software. Don't believe for a minute their claim that they're not buying the software to kill it. …

Feb 19, 2003: RSS feed Thanks to the nagging hints of some people, I have modified the RSS doc to show the full text of each post, rather than just a line or two. Props to …

Feb 18, 2003: Camino Apparently, everyone's favorite OS X-flavored Gecko-based browser will be renamed to Camino. What's sad is that Pinkerton knows it stinks, but …

Feb 18, 2003: This is compliance? Riddle me this: what good is it to have U-2 flights over Iraq, in the hope of locating production and storage facilities for weapons of mass …

Feb 18, 2003: Finally! Ric is reporting that Microtech International has finally gotten off their duffs and have posted for download drivers for the USB CameraMate and Zio! …

Feb 18, 2003: When you're really paranoid The DVD/CD Shredder from Alera Technologies destroys the data layer on DVD and CD discs, making the data unrecoverable. Pretty much any size DVD or CD …

Feb 16, 2003: Safari now supports title tag I just noticed, after adding a new link in the right-side column, that the latest public beta of Safari now supports the title tag. Make sure you have …

Feb 16, 2003: Please get a clue What is it with the "news" media and the hippie-throwback peaceniks out there? Oh, Saddam and the Iraqi government are making all of these …

Feb 14, 2003: Raena's blog Raena and I don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of stuff, but she's a fellow Mac-head and ATPM staffer, so she can't be all bad, can she? ;) Anyway, she's …

Feb 14, 2003: Debating the war on terror This is from an email sent to me, presumably posted by some radio personality, to show an illustration of the ongoing debate on how we should handle …

Feb 14, 2003: 10.2.4 disables PHP? Lee is reporting that Jon Gales has found that the Mac OS X 10.2.4 update disables PHP; Jon provides the Terminal-based restart sequence.

Feb 14, 2003: Free DropStuff via .Mac If you're a .Mac subscriber, MacMinute is reporting that Apple is offering Aladdin's DropStuff as a free download. As of 9:00 am CST, I'm getting 504 …

Feb 14, 2003: Happy Valentine's Day I'd just like to take a moment to wish my wonderful wife of ten and a half years a Happy Valentine's Day. I love you, sweetheart.

Feb 13, 2003: Fine, the gloves are off So, back in January, the New York Times' editorial page headline screamed "The War Against Women," the letter therein lambasting the Bush …

Feb 13, 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.4 Apple has made rev 10.2.4 available via the Software Update panel. "The 10.2.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the …

Feb 13, 2003: The Left's brain trust On the February 12th "The View," the ABC show created by Barbara Walters, former Good Morning America staffer and WABC Radio talk show host Joy Behar …

Feb 13, 2003: Going to war without the French is like... To wrap up Federalist coverage for today, I'd like to offer up my favorite results from their latest "Two Cents" reader feedback, wherein readers were …

Feb 13, 2003: Yet another reason to dump the SSA bq. "An internal review at the Social Security Administration found that the agency has paid accused felons between $76 million and $283 million in …

Feb 13, 2003: Worthy of our honor The following appeared in the 03-06 Digest of The Federalist: By now you know that five of the seven astronauts who died aboard the Space Shuttle …

Feb 13, 2003: retrophisch.com v2.0 So I think enough changes have been made to the site within the past few weeks to warrant a full version upgrade. :) Inspired by re-reading Robin …

Feb 12, 2003: Don't forget from where your power stems, pols "Anyone who has ever been in a government office sees people sitting around doing little if any work. Yet these people are never the first target of …

Feb 12, 2003: Safari update Apple has released a Safari beta update, taking the turbo browser to beta v60 (0.8.2).

Feb 12, 2003: French voting "Tony Blair said he and President Bush prefer another UN resolution before a war in Iraq. Their problem is the Security Council. France might command …

Feb 12, 2003: Happy Birthday, Mr. President II Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The Great Emancipator was fond of saying that God created all men as equal, and proved as such with the …

Feb 12, 2003: So are we at war, or aren't we? You have to love the Left. When it comes to liberating the Iraqi people, ousting a sociopathic dictator in possession of weapons of mass destruction, …

Feb 12, 2003: French peacenik pervasiveness "Meanwhile, the peacenik predisposition of the other Continentals is a useful cover for French ambition. Last year Paavo Lipponen, the Finnish Prime …

Feb 12, 2003: Kenner Pooch Wins at Westminster A Pekingese from Kenner won the toy dog category at the Westminster dog show this week, though she lost out in the Best in Show finale. Why do I care? …

Feb 12, 2003: Evidence for the French "How many folks saw Colin Powell at the UN? I thought he was pretty persuasive, but a lot of folks are still demanding more evidence, you know, before …

Feb 12, 2003: CRT-free household As of this morning, our household is free of computer CRT monitors. Last night, we purchased a NEC 17" LCD for my wife's PC. With just a slightly …

Feb 11, 2003: Get Safari Enhancer I'm always a little leery of third-party applications which modify or "enhance" another application. I like to live on the bleeding edge, but I also …

Feb 11, 2003: Silver kicks butt and takes names "Not all Hollywood celebrities are ungrateful, anti-American lefties." The MRC reports on an interview on Fox News Channel with actor Ron Silver, who …

Feb 11, 2003: Mr. Marx, Mr. Turner. Mr. Turner, Mr. Marx Yet another instance where I am ashamed to share a surname with this moronic windbag: Monday morning on Today, however, Turner maintained that Iraq is …

Feb 11, 2003: Entourage will be Exchange solution for OS X Good news for those of us stuck in Exchange server-using corporate environments: Microsoft's Mac BU has officially announced that Entourage will be …

Feb 11, 2003: Smart punctuation lives When you're a type nerd like me (never would guess that from the monospaced logo for the site, would you?), things like smart punctuation matter. …

Feb 11, 2003: SpamSieve 1.3 Michael has released SpamSieve 1.3, which is more resilient than ever to spammers' tricks for obfuscating words. In addition, you can now use e-mail …

Feb 10, 2003: SmartyPants Well, Gruber has released SmartyPants 1.1, and Lee's using it. I suppose I've been mulling over its use long enough. Buckle up, smart punctuation is …

Feb 10, 2003: Dude, you're going to jail! You know, this explains so much about the persona of "Steven the Dell dude."

Feb 10, 2003: Daily bread "The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit." —Proverbs 15:4/NIV, verseoftheday.com

Feb 10, 2003: Exercising rights "Americans are a people who have realized a dream of freedom, who have taken it from an abstract hope and turned it into a living reality. What made …

Feb 10, 2003: Online library Anu of the A.W.A.D. list is now gleaning example text from books found at Questia, an online library. It is a subscription-based service, though you …

Feb 10, 2003: Eddie who? Speaking of the Stars, I think Marty Turco is well on his way to ridding us of the ghost of Ed Belfour. Taking his team to the Finals and winning a …

Feb 10, 2003: Why IS a team from Dallas in the Pacific Division? Daryl Reaugh sums up a lot of my feelings on why the Stars are in the wrong division.

Feb 10, 2003: Tax food for thought Jim shared via email: "As income tax time approaches, did you ever notice that when you put the two words 'The' and 'IRS' together it spells …

Feb 10, 2003: 1.2 GHz Cube Bill Fox fans the flames of my gear lust with his review of the PowerLogix 1.2 GHz single processor upgrade for the G4 Cube.

Feb 10, 2003: Updated Xserves, new Xserve RAID Apple announced today updated Xserves, as well as the new Xserve RAID. The new servers feature up to dual 1.33 GHz processors, up to 720 GB of …

Feb 7, 2003: MacinTiVo From Damien comes this encouraging news on the TiVo front.

Feb 7, 2003: Furthermore Last night, I picked up my pre-ordered copy of "Furthermore" by Jars of Clay, their 2-disc studio/stage compilation. Faithfully ripped via iTunes, I'm …

Feb 7, 2003: Transmit 2.3 Panic released an updated version of their FTP client today. Mostly a bug-fix release, it does include an oft-requested feature: a preference that …

Feb 7, 2003: Virex 7.2 My favorite antivirus application has been updated. .Mac subscribers should log in and download the new version, which includes an automatic virus …

Feb 6, 2003: Happy Birthday, Mr. President Former President Ronald Reagan is 92 today. Major retrophisch well wishes to President and Mrs. Reagan.

Feb 6, 2003: Glad I don't read Salon Michael notes that Salon has adopted a new pay-or-click-through-multiple-ads model. Might be worth it for some, but I never thought Salon was worth …

Feb 6, 2003: Baked PowerBook, anyone? A colleague just sent me this link to a baked Apple. Please note that there are links at the top of the page to more pictures other than those …

Feb 6, 2003: Death of the floppy, redux Four and a half years after Apple declared the floppy disk was dead with the introduction of the iMac, the rest of the computer industry is finally …

Feb 6, 2003: You can still nab WordPerfect If you are one of those folks who just cannot let go of WordPerfect for the Mac, you can download the last version, released free by Corel, here. …

Feb 5, 2003: Sounds like a smoking Gatling gun to me "conceal" "hiding" "evacuated" "noncompliance" "mobile biological weapons labs" "nerve agents" "some followers of a senior associate of Osama bin …

Feb 5, 2003: Right on, Reebok! You know that annoying Nike Shox ad with the guy running across the soccer field wearing only his Shox shoes and a scarf? Reebok, with the help of …

Feb 5, 2003: On discrimination I have pondered authoring an essay on how it is the Democrats, in fact, who have long favored racial discrimination, and not Republicans, but why go …

Feb 4, 2003: New iMacs Even though I'm late in the day reporting this, Apple released upgraded iMacs today. The 17" iMac now sports a 1 GHz G4 processor, while the 15" …

Feb 4, 2003: Void that warranty, yeah! Thanks to Mike for the link to Kodawarisan Oheya's step-by-step disassembly of a 12" PowerBook G4.

Feb 4, 2003: Health improvements Well, after taking a couple of sick days, I'm beginning to feel normal again. The anti-nausea and anti-spasmodic drugs the ER doc prescribed for me …

Feb 2, 2003: Being sick sucks And it really, really, really sucks when you end up at the ER at 11:45 on a Saturday night because you're so dehydrated and you can't get fluids in by …

Feb 1, 2003: Rest in Peace, Columbia We've been getting calls pretty steady all morning from friends and family, making sure we're ok since all the reports have the Columbia breaking up …

Jan 31, 2003: Demos take note "National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams

Jan 31, 2003: Demo SOTU Response The volunteer researchers at The Federalist simply rock. Let's follow along as they break down the Democrat response to President Bush's State of the …

Jan 31, 2003: iLife released Apple has posted for download iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, and as has been the case, iTunes 3. The full iLife package began shipping earlier this week to those …

Jan 31, 2003: In The Visegrips Gibson continues to blow me away.

Jan 31, 2003: Notable Quotables MRC's latest Notable Quotables is available. They pick out the best biased lines from the news talkingheads to show you how skewed broadcast news …

Jan 30, 2003: Miller on the ACLU My friends know that in general I detest Dennis Miller, but he made an excellent point regarding the ACLU on the Tonight Show this week: "The ACLU …

Jan 30, 2003: "Balanced" reporting If a ban on partial-birth abortion, decidedly a conservative issue, is a "sop to the far right," why isn't a campaign finance reform bill, decidedly a …

Jan 30, 2003: iLife shipping MacMinute is reporting that iLife is now shipping from Apple. iPhoto 2 and iMovie 3 downloads have yet to be posted online, however.

Jan 30, 2003: Microsoft anti-Safari? A member of the Cube email list reports that he is unable to log in to his Hotmail account with Safari. He does say this "is limited to the browser …

Jan 30, 2003: Knowing Who Your Friends Are I know several folks out there, even some I call acquaintances and friends, believe that the United States, and specifically President Bush, is acting …

Jan 29, 2003: Harmony "Triumphant in their kill of the elephant chew toy, feline and canine shared bedding in front of a warm fire, and there was peace throughout the …

Jan 28, 2003: Sounds like material breach to me Hans Blix: "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance--not even today--of the disarmament which is demanded of it and which it needs to …

Jan 28, 2003: New Apple iron Apple released new desktops today. Processors ramp up to 1.42 GHz in the high-end model, as well as a new 4x SuperDrive. Like the PowerBooks released …

Jan 28, 2003: Good riddance, Opera Speaking of Mac browsers, Opera’s Jon von Tetzchner whined to CNET about competing with Safari, and losing out on providing the Opera engine to …

Jan 28, 2003: Safari best Mac browser ever? Bob Levitus, a.k.a., Dr. Mac, thinks it just may be: "Safari is wicked fast, with a clean, uncluttered interface and a feature I love--a special …

Jan 27, 2003: Stars beat Senators In a possible Stanley Cup Finals preview, the current best team in the West took on the current best team in the East (and the league). The Stars …

Jan 27, 2003: What's fair Once upon a time, there was a young woman who was about to finish her last year of college. She considered herself a very liberal Democrat, and her …

Jan 27, 2003: Daily Tales and Punditry Lee's blogging! Welcome to the weird and wacky world of the blog, bro. :)

Jan 27, 2003: Apple Store Knox Street Grand Opening So I decided to drag my butt out of bed at 6 am Saturday morning to join a friend for the opening of the new Apple Store on Knox Street in Dallas. …

Jan 27, 2003: '9/11 will seem like a picnic' From Uday Hussein, Saddam’s son, according to a Reuters article: "It is better for the Americans to keep themselves away from us. Because if …

Jan 26, 2003: Frickin' Celine Dion?!?!? Can someone answer me why a French Canadian is singing “God Bless America” during the Super Bowl pre-game show? “My home sweet …

Jan 23, 2003: SIGARMS Academy One of the reasons why SIG is my favorite firearms manufacturer is the SIGARMS Academy. Located in New Hampshire, the Academy provides all types of …

Jan 23, 2003: Common sense prevails A federal judge has thrown out the class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s which claimed the chain’s food was the reason for …

Jan 22, 2003: ClarisWorks History Michael notes a history of ClarisWorks posted by Bob Hearn, one of the software package’s creators. The quote Michael highlights stands out in …

Jan 21, 2003: Automatic Flatterer If you’re having a bad day and need a little pick-me-up, click here. (JavaScript needs to be enabled in your browser.) (Thanks, Jim!)

Jan 21, 2003: Don't mess with MacTavish It’s nice to see that Craig MacTavish, who came up during the NHL’s bruiser days, hasn’t lost the hockey-player mentality as a …

Jan 21, 2003: New spam filters Something I know will be of interest to Michael. (SpamSieve uses Bayesian analysis to identify spam.) (from Lee)

Jan 20, 2003: Frank talk on Apple's free software I know why Michael links to Steven Frank’s note on Apple’s free software. I agree with Steven, and I hope that developers like Michael and …

Jan 20, 2003: Where's Marv? Ok, so now I’m worried. A few weeks back, I noticed that Gunnery.Net had dropped off the ‘net. I didn’t think anything of it at the …

Jan 20, 2003: One million Safari downloads Apple announced that its beta web browser for Mac OS X, Safari, has been downloaded more than a million times in just over 2 weeks time. (from Stan)

Jan 20, 2003: Jacoby on capital punishment Speaking of Jeff Jacoby, he offers this point on the recently-revived capital punishment debate: "This week the Justice Department released 'Capital …

Jan 20, 2003: Jacoby's musings Jeff Jacoby's latest column notes a wide array of topics, including the fact that the war between the enlightened West and militant Islam has been …

Jan 20, 2003: Lies my protesting newsperson told me Now I could lay in to the various news agencies for their highly-skewed slant on the various anti-war protests over the weekend, but the Media …

Jan 18, 2003: Heaton rocks! There are reasons why Patricia Heaton continues to be one of my favorite actresses. She’s absolutely fabulous on Everybody Loves Raymond, and …

Jan 17, 2003: Addendum to definition of a liberal "A liberal is one who opposes racial profiling in matters of national security, but believes it is a useful standard in matters of higher education." …

Jan 17, 2003: Americans "Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, …

Jan 17, 2003: Open Secrets Now you may be wondering, "How did the MRC find out those economists were Democrat contributors?" It's called OpenSecrets.org, and you can search for …

Jan 17, 2003: Busted Gee, what possible agenda could ABC, NBC, and CBS have for trotting out financial experts and accountants who poo-poo on the President's tax plan, …

Jan 16, 2003: What are you lookin' at? Isn't he adorable? Clancy loves tennis balls. . .

Jan 15, 2003: Gibson blogs One of my favorite authors, and the coiner of “cyberspace,” is blogging. He also has a new book coming out, and damn, can this guy write …

Jan 15, 2003: Apple Q1 Results Apple posted its first quarter results; $8 million net loss. Ouch. I’m sure the stock will drop like a stone as “analysts” and stock …

Jan 15, 2003: Apple on Photoshop There's a bevy of Photoshop tips in the Creative section of Apple.com.

Jan 15, 2003: This week's "Leftmedia Busters" Award "In the 1979-80 season, 75% of all TV sets that were turned on in the early evening were tuned to the network news programs on CBS, NBC or ABC. By …

Jan 15, 2003: New PowerBook benchmarks Bare Feats' Rob Morgan benchmarked the PowerBook G4 17" from the Macworld Expo show floor, and has posted his results, with comparison to current …

Jan 15, 2003: Macally items Between the new PowerBooks, Safari, and Keynote, amongst other news out of Macworld Expo SF, I failed to notice some of the latest gadgets from …

Jan 15, 2003: How small is the 12" PowerBook G4? PowerBook Central answers that question with this handy chart of small Apple portables. While it's technically not the smallest when certain …

Jan 15, 2003: iConquer If you love(d) Risk, then you have to get iConquer. Sorry, Mac OS X only.

Jan 15, 2003: 40 GB iPod?!? As crazy as it sounds now, a 40 GB iPod could be a reality later this year, thanks to 40 GB 1.8-inch drives from Hitachi. (from MacRumors)

Jan 14, 2003: More Vindigo city facts From back at the end of October, when Vindigo added Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and more coverage for Chicago and Washington, DC: During the 1850s and '60s …

Jan 14, 2003: Safari first look If you're still waffling over whether or not to try Safari, Wei-Meng Lee has a good overview over on O'Reilly's MacDevCenter.

Jan 14, 2003: How true “It is almost pathetic to see the emerging lineup of Democratic presidential hopefuls slobbering all over themselves in search of a defining …

Jan 14, 2003: Sharing the sacrifice “The first thing to keep in mind is that it is almost impossible to cut any tax without making the people who pay that tax richer. And, rich …

Jan 13, 2003: Saving web pages as plain text in <strike>Chimera</strike> Camino Like Charles, I hadn't thought of this remedy.

Jan 13, 2003: Bumper Snickers LEM has some new bumper snickers. The Dell one is my favorite from this batch.

Jan 13, 2003: Bulls-eye! "The central question in this debate is not whether government should decide how much money it will allow us to keep. Rather, it is how much of our …

Jan 13, 2003: Will on stimulus package "Today's 'stimulus package' is psychotherapy for a nation that very recently has become too fixated on the stock market, which has declined three …

Jan 13, 2003: Tax vernacular Friday’s Federalist opined on President Bush’s proposed economic policy, and this gem on tax cut vernacular: "And Sociocrats depend on one …

Jan 11, 2003: New Safari beta Some time yesterday, Apple released a new beta of Safari.

Jan 10, 2003: You, too, can hack the RIAA Eric shared this tidbit with the ATPM staff on the ongoing hacks of the Recording Industry Association of America's web site.

Jan 9, 2003: X11 for Mac OS X Steve didn't mention it during the keynote, but it's been generating lots of buzz: Apple released a public beta of X11 for Mac OS X. X11 is the common …

Jan 9, 2003: The Hacker FAQ For clueless managers.

Jan 9, 2003: iPod #1 Steve Jobs reported during his keynote that the iPod is the #1 MP3 player in the United States and in the land of consumer electronics, Japan, with a …

Jan 9, 2003: "Come on a Safari with me. . ." Safari is generating quite a bit of buzz: Former Mozillian and Chimera inventor Dave Hyatt is part of the Safari team and has several interesting …

Jan 8, 2003: Safari breaks download record MacCentral is reporting that Safari, Apple's new browser for OS X, has broken Apple's single day download record.

Jan 8, 2003: Why the West is best “Western values are superior to all others. Why? The indispensable achievement of the West was the concept of individual rights. It’s the …

Jan 8, 2003: Freedom without faith? “It is vitally important that we recognize that there is a law higher than that of the state or the will of the majority. There is a higher law …

Jan 8, 2003: I couldn't agree more “We were hoping for a big and bold tax cut from President Bush and, by George, we got one. Yesterday Mr. Bush drew a bead on the twin …

Jan 8, 2003: Let's be honest with Saddam "There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." —Edmund Burke

Jan 7, 2003: Wireless PocketMouse Kensington has announced the PocketMouse Pro Wireless. US $49, pre-orders being taken now. I'm sure this will eventually find its way into my bag for …

Jan 7, 2003: Too cute Keegan, a seven year-old hockey player from Canada, has his own iMovie-edited film clip, with some help from his dad. (QuickTime required.)

Jan 6, 2003: Copyright Call to Arms Lawrence Lessig delivered “Free Culture” in July 2002 at the Open Source Convention. If you read nothing else that I post here about …

Jan 6, 2003: And just like that. . . . . .Apple releases iCal 1.0.2. Apparently this is a bug-fix for a problem in 1.0.1 that caused some users "living in time zones 10 hours or more from …

Jan 4, 2003: ATPM 9.01 About This Particular Macintosh enters its 9th calendar year of publishing with the January issue. Yours truly has a small review in this issue, as …

Jan 3, 2003: Digitize Fido Fido's info, that is. The stamped metal dog tags you buy from a vending machine at the pet store are so 20th century. The Dog-e-Tag is a US $40 …

Jan 3, 2003: Tax cut lies Thursday night, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNBC all decided to subtly berate President Bush’s upcoming economic stimulus package, which will include tax …

Jan 3, 2003: Debug your iPod Slashdot has a post on accessing the secret debugging tools inside the iPod. (with a nod to Ric)

Jan 2, 2003: There are other teams, Dallas sports fans As a transplanted Texan, one of the things that has bothered me since our move here in ‘98 has been how Cowboys-focused Dallas sports fans are. …

Jan 2, 2003: Cotton Bowl observations Longhorn Chris Simms lived down to his reputation and didn’t choke at a big game, closing out his collegiate career with a win. I can’t …

Jan 2, 2003: iUpdates Apple announced iCal 1.0.1 and final release of iSync 1.0 today. Each requires Mac OS X 10.2.2.

Dec 31, 2002: Cotton Bowl bound Yeah, I know the blog’s been quiet the past few days. Since I was unable to get any time off on the days before or after Christmas Day, we had …

Dec 26, 2002: Preloaded Blog Entry of the Day has to go to Panic's Steven Frank. Steven's commentary is just as funny as the item being commented on.

Dec 26, 2002: LSU vs Ole Miss, 11/23/02 Thanks to a generous neighbor, Kelly & I, along with our friends and fellow alumni, Drew & Melanie, got to go to the last LSU home game of …

Dec 26, 2002: All along the watchtower “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” —John Adams …

Dec 25, 2002: Happy Birthday, Jesus! Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ, our Lord and Savior, who died for the sins of the world. "And it came to pass in those days, that …

Dec 24, 2002: Microsoft to acquire Macromedia? Yes, that Macromedia. Of FreeHand, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and most of all, Flash, fame. Does Microsoft plan to kill Java through this acquisition? …

Dec 24, 2002: Santa uses a Mac! www.santaclaus.com UPDATE (12/26/02): In case you are seeing this link after December 25th, the above link used to redirect back to Apple's Santa …

Dec 24, 2002: Protect Fair Use A new site has appeared, protectfairuse.org. I encourage you to check it out. They make it easy for you to email and print letters to send to your …

Dec 24, 2002: OS X fresh meat Open source software site, Freshmeat has opened a new section devoted exclusively to OS X.

Dec 23, 2002: Happy Belated Birthday, bro Dan turned 30 yesterday. Welcome to the ranks of the thirtysomethings, amigo. :)

Dec 23, 2002: The One True Quoting Style Michael calls it on Chris Hanson's observation. Take note, emailers of the world. At work, I am forced to use Entourage as my Exchange client under …

Dec 23, 2002: Safer in Afghanistan than in Montgomery Exercising the Second Amendment right he defends every day through his service, Marine Sergeant James Lowery shot and killed a would-be carjacker last …

Dec 23, 2002: About those poor Iraqi civilians. . . A lot has been said and written in the past few months regarding the fate of the Iraqi civilian population in the event of a U.S.-led attack on Saddam …

Dec 22, 2002: My Glorious The world's shaking with the love of God Great and glorious, let the whole earth sing And all you ever do is change the old for new People we believe …

Dec 22, 2002: No news is good news Well, that's what Grant has to say about his mom. Keep sending the prayers out.

Dec 19, 2002: Prayers for Grant's mom Grant Hutchinson's mom suffered a grade V intracerebral aneurysm on Monday. She appears to be improving slowly. Please pray for her and the rest of …

Dec 19, 2002: Transmit 2.2 What is fast becoming my favorite GUI-based FTP client for OS X has an incremental update. Transmit 2.2 was released today, and is the first FTP …

Dec 19, 2002: More of the real Clinton legacy ABC News has conducted an exclusive interview with two FBI agents, who said they were repeatedly warned off of the cases they were working on. …

Dec 19, 2002: Have you been Googled? Michael links to this article on MSNBC about Google, its pervasive nature, popularity, and a little history. And since MSNBC's articles tend to …

Dec 19, 2002: I'm glad I use a Mac New security bug with Windows XP and Nullsoft's Wimamp MP3 player. Yet more reasons why I love iTunes and Audion. (Thanks, Eric.)

Dec 18, 2002: WebDesktop Well, isn't this a kick in the pants?

Dec 18, 2002: Is this covered by my insurance? "Watch for falling meteorites."

Dec 18, 2002: Truth hurts, eh Yasser? “The expectations in the reformed-terrorist category are not high–Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Mugabe–but [Yasser] Arafat has failed to …

Dec 18, 2002: Liberty History In case you missed it, and I know you did since I did, too, Sunday, 15 December, marked the 211th anniversary of the adoption of our Bill of Rights, …

Dec 17, 2002: How to Ruin American Enterprise All I can say is, Ben Stein FREAKING rocks! Thanks, Dan!

Dec 17, 2002: O'Reilly on Online Distribution Michael links to Tim O'Reilly's treatment of piracy and online distribution. This is in the vein of fair use and copyright noted yesterday with Dan …

Dec 16, 2002: A.Word.A.Day Extend your vocabulary by subscribing to this free A.Word.A.Day email list. (Thanks, Michael.)

Dec 16, 2002: Common Sense, Copyright, and Fair Use So I’m a little behind in my LEM reading, but Dan Knight published an outstanding article on copyright and fair use. If you ever needed a simple …

Dec 16, 2002: Nice, but it doesn't do windows... For your enjoyment, the iRobot Intelligent FloorVac from Roomba. (Flash required.)

Dec 14, 2002: You are cordially invited to... …A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!!! Guest of Honor: Jesus Christ Date: Every day. Traditionally, December 25, but He’s always around, so the date …

Dec 13, 2002: Barney Cam No, not the purple dinosaur parents love to hate, but Barney, one of the Bush dogs. Go here and look for the Barney Cam link to see Barney terrorize …

Dec 13, 2002: MacScan SecureMac has released a beta version of MacScan, their spyware detection and removal software for all Macs, from 68K machines to the latest G4s …

Dec 12, 2002: Not Carlin's Paradox If you are one of many who receives "The Paradox of Our Time" email this holiday season, and it's attributed to George Carlin after 9/11/01, or a …

Dec 12, 2002: A product manual worth the read Grant mentions purchasing a Marathon Deskmount for his G4. I downloaded the Deskmount installation instructions (PDF), and had a good chuckle. These …

Dec 12, 2002: I have to try this! Ever been shopping and when you check out they ask you for your zip code? That make you feel even the least bit uncomfortable? Well, here’s an …

Dec 11, 2002: Ah, men after my own heart “A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” —Frank Dane “Every day you meet a delegation going to some …

Dec 11, 2002: Macrovision moving in to audio Digital "rights" management company Macrovision has completed its acquisition of Israeli-based Midbar Technologies, and will now take its …

Dec 11, 2002: Amazing foresight For all of you who think the federal government doesn’t focus enough on domestic issues: "[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the …

Dec 10, 2002: Categories live! Thanks to code deciphering from Michael, you can now see the categories I use for my posts at the bottom of each post. If you click on the category …

Dec 10, 2002: Beware Bord the Impaler! As a warning to Gummi Bears everywhere. . . Ok, so I work with odd people. And who is more odd—those who perpetuate such acts, or those who …

Dec 10, 2002: Boundaries of the Contiguous United States Watch the boundaries of the U.S. and the individual states change from colonization to the modern age. (Thanks, Rick!)

Dec 9, 2002: X2 teaser Speaking of QuickTime, Apple is hosting the teaser trailer for X-Men 2 that was shown at ComicCon 2002.

Dec 9, 2002: SnowSaver A developer known as “mathew” has released SnowSaver, a freeware snowflake screen saver for OS X. SnowSaver is “modeled on the …

Dec 9, 2002: Macintouch on IP over FireWire Dan was asking if I had any experience yet utilizing IP over FireWire. I still haven't set it up to play with it, but Ric Ford has posted a Reader …

Dec 9, 2002: If they went any more left, they'd drown Proving once again that they don’t get it and do not deserve the benches they sit upon, a three-judge panel of the left-leaning Ninth Circuit …

Dec 5, 2002: Powers of Ten Cool site courtesy of one of my co-workers. Requires a Java-enabled browser. From the site: "View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the …

Dec 4, 2002: IP over FireWire At 400 megabits per second, FireWire is 40 times faster than 10Base-T Ethernet, and 4 times faster than 100Base-T. The only Ethernet spec faster than …

Dec 4, 2002: <big smile> "Michael Jackson horrified German onlookers by dangling a baby over his hotel balcony railing in Berlin. He's there for a reason. Americans are so …

Dec 4, 2002: Michael's blog Speaking of ATPM publisher, and pal, Michael Tsai, Michael started his own weblog back in September and failed to mention this to anyone on the ATPM …

Dec 4, 2002: ATPM 8.12 The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Nothing in there from me this month <head hung in shame>, but Robert Lewis has …

Dec 4, 2002: This is a problem because. . . ? This week’s “Keen Sense of the Obvious” Award: “The Bush administration often seems to be completely engrossed with the …

Dec 4, 2002: Think Geek wish list Speaking of Think Geek, I have updated my Think Geek wish list, just in case anyone feels generous enough to buy me anything. My top picks include the …

Dec 3, 2002: MegaTokyo Thanks to the overlords at Think Geek, I am now a fan of the online manga strip, MegaTokyo by Fred Gallagher. Computer geeks, especially gamers, and …

Dec 3, 2002: Happy Birthday to me. . . Yes, yes, 32 today. Well, officially, 32 as of 11:03 am, about half an hour from now. Eh, just another birthday. Thirty-two doesn't feel any different …

Nov 25, 2002: Switchers you won't see on TV More and more PC users are learning how easy it is to switch from Windoze to Macintosh, and OS X is a big reason. For Shoshana Berger of Business 2.0, …

Nov 15, 2002: Ride the Shuttle For the first time ever, NASA mounted a "RocketCam" on the external fuel tank utilized by the Space Shuttle. From a launch of the Atlantis earlier …

Nov 15, 2002: Foam PC Proving they have too much time on their hands, as well as what PCs are really good for, it's the NeuHausPlatz 200NC. NC stands for "no case." This is …

Nov 13, 2002: Daily bread I love this: “The LORD reigns; let the earth be glad; let the distance shores rejoice! Clouds and thick darkness surround Him: righteousness and …

Nov 11, 2002: Thank you for your service And on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the Great War ended with an armistice. November 11th was officially honored as Armistice Day …

Nov 10, 2002: New Mac portables I can’t believe I forgot to make mention of the new PowerBooks and iBooks that Apple released last week. The new PowerBooks go up to 1 GHz and …

Nov 10, 2002: Frank TabletPC analysis Steven Frank, co-founder of Panic Software, has an early analysis on why Microsoft’s new TabletPC initiative is really nothing new, and in many …

Nov 8, 2002: National Military Appreciation Month "To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington, First Annual Address, January 8, 1790 Veterans …

Nov 8, 2002: When I grow up Remember that Monster.com ad with all the kids talking about what dead-end career they wanted “when I grow up?” If not, you’ll …

Nov 8, 2002: Chimera 0.6 The latest stable version of Chimera was released a couple of days ago, and I am falling further in love with this browser. Powered by the Gecko …

Nov 8, 2002: Transmit 2.1 The fine folks at Panic Software released version 2.1 of their fine FTP client, Transmit today. Hey, Michael, guess what feature got implemented? :)

Nov 5, 2002: Like you need another reason to go Mac Wired has an article on successful tech entrepreneur Doug Humphrey, wherein he discusses his decision to move his company to all Macs. He has an …

Nov 5, 2002: Why HTML in email is bad Personally, I have long maintained that HTML belongs in browsers, not my email client. One of the reasons I use Mailsmith is that it never shows HTML …

Nov 5, 2002: Multiple choice For our friends in the ACLU and other leftists opposed to profiling in our current war on terrorism: In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, Israeli athletes …

Nov 4, 2002: Character Palette Instead of hunting up the Key Caps application under Mac OS X 10.2, use the Character Palette instead. Go to System Preferences, click on …

Nov 4, 2002: Lapvantage Deluxe Dome My review of the Lapvantage Deluxe Dome is now online in the November issue of About This Particular Macintosh.

Nov 4, 2002: Industrious Clock A very interesting web page clock. (Thanks, Jay!)

Nov 3, 2002: Blog spam For crying out loud, now I have to worry about spam links showing up in my blog. Spammers are now stuffing blogs' referral logs--a list that …

Oct 27, 2002: Aloha! I'm on vacation on the Garden Isle of Kaua'i, Hawai'i, right now, so posts will be few and far between. I'll try to get a few pics up here and there, …

Oct 25, 2002: Windows messages rewritten Courtesy of Neil Gaiman, and like Neil, it made me smile: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Windows Messages, as if Rewritten by Scott, This Guy …

Oct 25, 2002: Air passenger ban possible America's Finest News Source has revealed that the FAA is considering a ban on air passengers in order to make our skies safer. In the wake of …

Oct 24, 2002: Transmit 2.0 I failed to mention yesterday that Panic Software released Transmit 2.0, their outstanding FTP client. Version 2.0 has been rebuilt from the ground up …

Oct 24, 2002: Hypocrisy as a way of life? Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle appeared on Fox News Sunday this past week. During the interview, hypocrite Daschle remarked: “Well, …

Oct 24, 2002: This week's "Leftmedia Buster" Award "Saddam won a 100 percent victory in an uncontested election Tuesday to remain the nation's leader for another seven years." —CNN followed by: "Iraq …

Oct 23, 2002: DropDMG 2.0 Michael Tsai today released DropDMG 2.0, the latest version of his excellent utility for creating disk images in Mac OS X’s device image (DMG) …

Oct 23, 2002: iPod turns one The iPod is one year-old today. On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs held a special press event to announce that Apple had produced the best digital music …

Oct 22, 2002: What's a retrophisch? I remarked to my buddy Brian that "retrophisch" sounded like something out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, since it reminds me of "babelfish" …

Oct 22, 2002: Justifiable violence “Are liberals incapable of the kind of practical moral reasoning that foreign policy requires? It seems that they are. Most liberals are content …

Oct 22, 2002: Learn some history, people “The Congress of the United States has now given President George W. Bush the authority to enter into preemptive war against Saddam Hussein, …

Oct 22, 2002: Call'em like we see'em "The House of Representatives packed up and went home for elections, and we can't say we're sorry to see the Members go. Senators are lingering for a …

Oct 21, 2002: National Novel Writing Month Hmmmmm…..motivation? November is designated National Novel Writing Month; the object for participants: to write a 50,000-word novel, beginning …

Oct 21, 2002: Speaking of slaps to the face... “Of course, it’s a tragedy that the peace prize was awarded to Carter and not Reagan. I mean, who did more for world peace? Who did a …

Oct 21, 2002: American "force" There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth over Bush admininstration foreign policy, that the United States is "forcing" its will on the rest of the …

Oct 21, 2002: Don't need a father, eh Murphy Brown? "Fathers' involvement [with their children] seems to be linked to improved verbal and problem-solving skills and higher academic achievement. Several …

Oct 21, 2002: Why it's freedom of religion, not freedom from "Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really just …

Oct 20, 2002: Blast from the past Well, not that far past. October 2001, to be exact, but rather timely since there is new gun regulation being discussed in the wake of the DC metro …

Oct 19, 2002: No more AOL CDs campaign Jim McKenna and John Lieberman have begun a campaign to send back 1 million CDs to snail mail spammer AOL. Just send Jim and John any AOL CDs you have …

Oct 18, 2002: Biggest LEGO set ever Thirty-eight inches long. Twenty-four inches wide. Over 3,100 pieces. Twelve-hour minimum build time. I must have one. Perhaps someone will buy it for …

Oct 17, 2002: More on the fake Microsoft switcher John Gruber has uncovered the lies Microsoft is putting forth to cover its previous lie of a Mac user switching to Windows XP. What’s so …

Oct 17, 2002: 800MHz Cube upgrade Bill Fox of Macs Only! has concluded testing of the PowerLogix PowerForce G4 Series 100 800MHz upgrade card in his Power Mac G4 Cube, and has posted a …

Oct 17, 2002: Worth repeating He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpentry shop until he was thirty, and then for three years he was an …

Oct 16, 2002: Yes, Virginia, lie detectors are fallible "After 19 months of study, experts convened by the National Research Council, an arm of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, concluded that …

Oct 15, 2002: Microsoft switcher lies Apple comes out with a kick-butt ad campaign called Switch, an ad campaign that utilizes real people who have switched from Windows-running PCs to …

Oct 14, 2002: English, the de facto official language "If I were Hispanic, I would be ashamed that so many American institutions take it for granted that people like me can't understand English. I would …

Oct 14, 2002: Congresscritters, it wasn't supposed to be a career! "Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from …

Oct 14, 2002: Perpetual Bubble wrap Are you one of those people that loves to annoy others by popping bubble wrap? Me, too. Now you can pop the bubble wrap that always comes back for …

Oct 14, 2002: PGP 8.0 Public Beta Earlier this year, the email encryption system known as Pretty Good Privacy was rescued from the nincompoops at Network Associates, and will soon be …

Oct 13, 2002: Why we need a college football playoff system Can someone please explain to me why the Miami Hurricanes continue to be voted the #1 college football team in the country? I mean, look at these …

Oct 13, 2002: FireWire film scanner SmartDisk has announced two new film scanners, one of which, the SmartScan 3600, is FireWire based. Now I have something else to add to my wish list …

Oct 10, 2002: retrophisch.com v1.0 One door closes, another opens. Welcome to my weblog, or blog, retrophisch.com! Further blogging at digitalpembroke.com is now suspended. That site …

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