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Posted in life, nerdliness on Apr 15th, 2008
For the first time in several years, I am free of my cell phone contract. When I moved to Kansas in 2004, my cell phone was nearing the end of its two-year obligation. Without realizing the consequences (and without being told about them) I called Cingular and changed my phone number to the new area [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 10th, 2008
Shawn Blanc has put up an excellent review of his new 15″ MacBook Pro over at his site. In the Unchanging section of the review he makes the point that Apple products age very well:
… it is not uncommon to see someone still using their four or five-year-old PowerBook on a daily basis. Even [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 13th, 2008
Most technology reviews happen shortly after the hardware or software is released, and the reviewer has had only a limited time to tinker with the product. Publishing is not without a sense of one-upsmanship, and getting your review to press first is the only way to win that game.
Here at Zanshin.net World Headquarters, I’ve [...]
Posted in elsewhere, nerdliness on Jan 15th, 2008
Let the drooling begin. Apple Macbook Air.
Posted in nerdliness on Nov 5th, 2007
Nearly five years after first purchasing a couple of Macintosh computers (largely due to OS X) I find myself “switching” again. As a software architect I spend considerable amounts of my work day developing models and diagrams using proprietary tools that only work on the Windows operating system. Two years ago, when I [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 26th, 2007
I soooooo want one of these….
Posted in nerdliness on Aug 5th, 2006
It appears that the new WiFi card has cured the iMac of it’s won’t-stay-connected blues. The new card arrived in the mail yesterday, but since it was insured the post man conveniently left me a claim ticket so I could trek to the post office this morning on my way to kendo.
After installing the card [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Aug 3rd, 2006
About a week or so ago the wireless connection to the iMac computer started acting flaky. It has never made the connection on its own after being restarted or rebooted. I always have to click the WiFi icon and select my network to get it started. Once connected though, it was always rock solid.
Lately it [...]
Posted in nerdliness on May 2nd, 2006
Six new television ads from the new “Get A Mac” campaign at Apple. The “Viruses” one is laugh-out-loud funny. (”I’m just going to crash…”)
Get A Mac Ads
Posted in random on Jan 27th, 2006
For the past few months I have been using the keyboard that came with the iMac as my primary input device. Through some nifty software to allow one keyboard and mouse to control two computers with dedicated LCD screens. The arrangement has worked very well for me except for the keyboard itself.
I find the keys [...]
