Ligia and I went on a road trip this past Memorial Day weekend, and I put together CD mixes for the trip instead of taking an iPod along. The result was surprisingly good. In the past, I’d simply take the iPod along, plug it in, set it on Shuffle, and go, but the sheer volume [...]
» Go to this postThis video will show you why Romania is a wonderful and inventive country. Yes, it was sponsored by some beer companies, but it’s very nicely put together, and the things it talks about are all true. The subjects presented in the video are listed below in the order of appearance:
The invention of the fountain pen, [...]
» Go to this postH. Mumford Jones - “Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”
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For the purposes of this guide, I’m going to assume that you were using Outlook or Outlook Express on the PC, and you want to import your messages into the Mail app that ships with Mac OS X. [...]
I saw Gold Diggers of 1933 last night. It’s a great musical from - you guessed it - 1933. It was part of a series of Gold Digger movies that WB put out during those years. This was the second in the series. It, and the first, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), were very successful, [...]
» Go to this postFrancis Bacon - “Knowledge is power.”
This quote reminds me of why I started writing for the web in the first place. I did it for the same reason I founded my site. I wanted to share useful information (knowledge) with people interested in finding it. That, in turn, empowers them to do what they need [...]
I’ve started writing for BlogCritics as well, and my first entry, the MacBook review, was just published on their site. I’m pretty happy, and I hope it will get me some extra exposure.
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Download ComeAcross Podcast 11
Summary: Book review, “Mister Ed and Me”, by Alan Young with Bill Burt — ComeAcross Photos (photos.raoulpop.com) is up and running — Congress to make social networking sites inaccessible to minors — Recipe: croissants with butter, sour cream and cinnamon — In France, politicians still listen to reason — Part [...]
I visited the Apple Store over the weekend and took a look at the new MacBook (the iBook replacement). Apple’s outsourced the production of this laptop to Asus, but it’s definitely still an Apple. It was supposed to arrive in June, so it’s ahead of schedule.
The overall impression is that it’s a very nice laptop, [...]
Mark Twain - “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
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John Scheinman of The Washington Post reports that doctors fused Barbaro’s right rear leg successfully during a surgery that lasted more than 5 hours at the University of Pennsylvania’s Bolton Center. Barbaro can now stand on his own, but whether he’ll recover fully is anyone’s guess. The leg still has to heal, and that’s the [...]
» Go to this post(1994, St. Martin’s Press, New York)
The TV show “Mister Ed” is my perennial favorite. My wife and I love it, and we watch it regularly. I was thrilled to discover that Mr. Young had written a book about the history of the show - and also included a short autobiography. The book proved to be [...]
