Apple: good company, compelling technology, horrible coffee. LDAP: Basis of distributed OpenDirectory setups, difficult to understand, even more difficult to navigate using commandline tools. Use LDapper instead. Powerbooks: worth their weight in gold. Steve Jobs must love that Apple logo,…
I’m on travel this week in Reston, VA attending an Apple OpenDirectory training course. My job description doesn’t call for much travel and so this has been an adventure of sorts. I picked up my rental car from Avis yesterday…
Looks like Google included an Easter Egg in its release of Google Talk: Hunt the Wumpus. Now that’s an Easter Egg done right.
That’s it. It’s time for a “Browser Brain Dump,” folks. I’ve had a huge number of tabs sitting open in my browser as of late, with all sorts of information ephemera taking up valuable virtual memory. Thus, in the interest…
…I’m not ignoring your pleas to talk to me. It’s just that Google Talk happens to run on TCP ports that our firewalls and proxies at work just don’t like. I’ll accept your invites when I get home. For those…
If you’re a *snort* geek like me, you may very well enjoy Engadget’s retrospective “from” 1985, featuring the latest news on cellphones, Windows 1.0 and the Engadget “Tapecasts”. It starts out thusly: WELCOME TO THE ENGADGET BBS August 22, 1985…
I came across mention of an interesting game in my daily flitting about the Internet[s] the other day, but slipped into that game link was a far more intriguing fact: Scott had stumbled across the game via Jeff Bridges’ site.…
If you’re going to send horribly offensive and potentially threatening email to someone with whom you disagree, don’t use your work email account to do so, as it could lead to an immediate termination of your employment. Just an FYI,…
Words fail me: USB-powered Star Trek Barbie Bluetooth headset. I just, wow, I mean, jeepers. What nutjob will be seen in public using that thing? (Note: the headline quote comes from the usage instructions contained in the Q&A section at…
– or –A fanciful yet hopeful midday literary divertimento Our plane had been in the air for a little under an hour when my eldest son turned to me and implored “How much longer till we get there, Dad?” “It’s…
