Flashback A couple of decades ago, as I was actively traveling between externship locations, I would drop by the local AAA office to pick up a couple of things: A customized TripTic driving directions flipbook; A set of guidebooks for all of the areas that I’d be driving through and to. Part of the info-gathering [...]
May 2009
Javamancy has just been refreshed with a fairly large system update. Fortunately for you, gentle readers, the updated Javamancy should not impact you in any dramatic manner. Please enjoy the shift in the background color, which has apparently appealed to the vast majority of you during the testing (also, thanks to several of you who [...]
You knew, deep in your heart (and the dark recesses of your mind), that sooner or later, Apple [AAPL] would start selling their popular iPhone 3G smartphones online, preferentially their own online Apple Store. It’s been later rather than sooner, as the iPhone 3G has already made the rounds with the usual suspects of retailers [...]
At this point, several of you have already experienced the harrowing excitement surrounding the Apple’s [AAPL] OS X 10.5.7 update for Macs. Earlier today, I’d spotted the OS update on my MacBook White while traveling. I did not think anything unusual about it, since it was just started to make the rounds, and nobody had [...]
Things that make you go, “Hmm…” Today is Mother’s Day in the US, but it’s strangely difficult to believe that it has been a year since the last one. Last year, I mused about the origins of the US version of the holiday, and I also discussed what I was wandering about doing. This year, [...]
A lot of people are rightfully questioning whether the Palm Pre truly would fit in their current workflow or lifestyles. Not surprisingly, the answer is most likely: NO. After all, the Pre is an initial cut at a new product line, and it has much more in common with the older Treo models than, say, [...]
Speculations about the supposedly impending Palm Pre release…
As I was playing Far Cry 2 on the Xbox 360 console and driving around (in the game, not in reality!), I had a sudden urge to have some coffee. This is not an unusual event, in and of itself. After all, it’s nice to be sipping a favorite beverage (although if you happen to [...]
As the evening approaches, and early happy hours start kickin’ off, it’s that time of the year again: Cinco de Mayo! Although May 5th in the US has been heavily commercialized by the beer and fine spirits industries, the day did not originally celebrate mega-keg parties, strip poker, or topless bikini contests. Rather, it was [...]
As I was driving home today in yet another disastrously nasty rush hour period, I was stuck in another two-hour gridlock extravaganza when, out of the corner of my left eye, I saw a dark gray/black shadow rushing by from the opposite lanes, along Rt. 7 from the direction of Leesburg, Virginia. It’s the Girls [...]
