I had a hardware problem with my MacBook Pro today. Apple delivered a model of stellar customer service. I figured the least I could do in return was write about it. … [Read more...]
Rules for Voting
November 4, 2008 by
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong." —Robert A. Heinlein … [Read more...]
InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
November 4, 2008 by
Announcing a new innovation competition for undergraduates at Georgia Tech! … [Read more...]
Serenbe
November 3, 2008 by
Spent a gorgeous fall day driving, eating, hiking, and shopping at Serenbe.I had planned to come home and write a blog post about it, but it turns out Angus beat me to the punch months ago: http://blog.angusmcrae.com/?p=43.Not a place I'd choose to live (I'm a city boy), but it's nice to know it's available, only forty minutes from my driveway.More … [Read more...]
Traffic
November 2, 2008 by
The effect of having your iPhone Web app listed on Apple's directory: http://tinyurl.com/6s8nyr … [Read more...]
Selectrics
November 1, 2008 by
Just put six Selectric II correcting typewriters out for trash pickup. Sad. Sold one, gave one away, no one would take the remaining six. They used to be the kind of the hill. Now they're just scrap. (But they STILL have the best-feeling keyboards in history.) … [Read more...]
My letter to the editor of “New Scientist” magazine
November 1, 2008 by
They probably won't publish this, so I'll put it here: ----- To the Editors: The premise of your special on growth in the 15 October 2008 issue is just plain wrong, and the wrongness starts in your lead editorial. http://tinyurl.com/4evh5e You state that "we live on a planet with finite resources." But we also live in a solar system with … [Read more...]
Georgia’s High Tech Corridor
October 29, 2008 by
Highway sign outside of Jesup, Georgia. That's not "Georgia's High Tech Corridor"... Georgia's high tech corridor is on the third floor of the Centergy building in Tech Square. :-) … [Read more...]
Random Quotes WebApp for iPhone
October 29, 2008 by
A while back, I posted the code for my "random quote of the day" widget for Blogger/Blogspot. Now I've tweaked it a bit to make it into a Web app for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). If you're reading this from your iPhone, try it now at http://tr.im/ipquote! … [Read more...]
Mac OS X Time Machine advice
October 27, 2008 by
Apple's Time Machine has saved my bacon a couple of times. It's not the only backup strategy I use (I'm trying to store more in the cloud), but it's a darned useful one. When switching to my new MacBook Pro, syncing up with my ten months of old Time Machine backups got hopelessly confused. And I had wanted to repartition that external disk … [Read more...]
