It Is Here, Thus I Shall Not Be

Awww yeah. Our copies arrived at work this morning — this is my first official post from a newly-Leopardized Mac Pro. I'm about to give Bootcamp a spin and my Applications folder is near-pristine, so I've lots of work to do.
Onward, upward and Leopard.
W00t!

Lets All Point And Laugh At The People Who Dont' Know How To Apostrophize Or "Quote"

Before I begin, I should admit to a bit of personal Grammar Naziism; that is to say, I generally have little tolerance for people who don't take the time to learn to use proper punctuation, spelling and grammar and thus inflict linguistic atrocities upon those of us that do care about such matters. Thus [...]

Did Anyone Else Get 33% More Likely To Buy An iPhone Yesterday?

Okay, so y'all did see the coverage of Apple's little shindig yesterday where they announced

New iPod Nanos with screen rezzes equivalent to the iPod Video
iPod "Classics" featuring 80GB and 160(!)GB capacities
The friggin' iPod "Touch", otherwise known as "iPhone Without The Phone Part"
And a $200 drop on the iPhone's previously astronomical pricetag

…Cause, dang, son, those are [...]

Laser Light Shows Are For Pansies

Real men don't do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers' "underground theme":

A Bountiful Link-Filled Catch-Up

I am fully cognizant of my delinquent blogging — apologies all around. I've been in full recovery mode since taking the redeye from SFO to PHL on Friday night. Short observations on that flight? Sucked like a brand-new Dyson 07 with the full pet hair kit. Stupid US Airways.
In exchange for my [...]

[Insert Mechanical Onomatopoeia Here]

Have you seen the new Transformers "exclusive" trailer over on Yahoo! Movies yet? Proceed there posthaste or imperil your Official Geek Status and prepare to turn in your membership card, slide rule and protractor.
Sweet.

First-Rate Geeky Command Line Head-Smackage

WARNING: GEEKY CONTENT AHEAD
If you have no desire to read about login shells, Linux, source code management or other similarly geeky content, you'd best be skipping this one. -ed.
Have you ever allowed a nuisance to go on for literally years simply because you couldn't be bothered to do enough research to effectively nip it in [...]