I’ve recently had to explain my objections/reservations to Mike Huckabee as the GOP nominee this year to several friends, a process which has been fraught with misunderstanding and a lack of true clarity on my part. Fortunately, my choice for…
Congratulations are in order for Philadelphia, as the mayoral transition from John Street [ptui!] to Michael Nutter appears to have taken the city from “Your Mayor just got served (papers)!” to “You just got served by the Mayor!”. He may…
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers. Please note that we’re proudly running WordPress, despite Prof. Reynolds’ unkind words about it. *grin* (Surviving the Instalanche thanks entirely to Donncha’s excellent WP Super Cache plugin) Aron and I have long noted that Battlestar Galactica‘s…
NetNewsWire, by far my favorite RSS/Atom feed reader on the Mac, has gone completely free as of version 3.1. (See the Wikipedia article for the distinctions between free-as-in-beer vs. free-as-in-speech). There’s always been a Lite version of the app, one…
By way of TUAW today, we have They iScrewed Me Again, a (very well done) MadTV rant against Apple’s upgrade churn on the iPod product line. Video below, mild language warning (if you’re offended by Olde English terms for children…
Y’all know the routine: every once in a while (read: more than strictly necessary), I get a whole mess of links just sitting there in my browser, asking to be posted. So, let’s get to the linkage, shall we? First…
Wowsers. Netflix and LG are apparently set to release a set-top box for direct downloads of movies in the very near future: Netflix enters internet TV race US DVD rental firm Netflix is to release a set-top box which will…
A very happy New Year to all my readers (you know who you three are… *grin*). I hope yours was a good celebration — ours was spent with friends who left early (but not before I addicted them to the…
I turned 30 this weekend, a fact that has prompted my wife to note that I am now able to be classified as Officially Old. I’ve already received my solicitation from the AARP, so in order to complete my bid…
Merry Christmas, a few days late, to all my friends, readers, countrymen. And, to all my Eastern Orthodox readers: Merry Christmas season. Things have been busy ’round these parts — since Kate wasn’t allowed out of the house, my family…
