Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5)

After playing with the Leopard beta a few months back (see my impressions from then), I was not convinced that it was going to ship on time. It was just too buggy. When Tiger came out, it was really buggy too. I feel like the initial release of 10.4 was ...

Reviews

Been a long time since I've given some reviews, so here's a big list of stuff: Apple iPhone 95% - will go to 96% when they finally release Leopard and then add support for syncing notes and to-dos. (Both are built into OSX Mail in Leopard). The other 4% is from ...

Apple – Ten Years Ago

Fake Steve Jobs brought up the classic article "101 Ways to Save Apple" from Wired magazine 1997. That was a tough time to be a Mac user, it was also just about the time that my dad bought some Apple stock. :-) So what's the difference between now and then? Steve ...

Dear Winston

Please read this. Sincerely, Steve Jobs

Dear Apple

A $100 iTunes gift certificate would be nice. Sincerely, Early iPhone Adopter

Leopard beta impressions

So, like I mentioned before, I played with a beta of Leopard. First off, it's obvious why they didn't release it yet, it's definitely not quite ready for prime time. In fact, I have serious doubts that it will be ready to go in October, I wouldn't be surprised at ...

Remote Buddy 1.1

WOW. Seriously... wow. I love Remote Buddy, I use it almost every night since we watch a lot of video off of the Mac mini I have hooked up to my TV. I rent movies and TV shows (or get the shows via Usenet) and then we watch them. Remote Buddy ...

The iPhone

Now that I've had 24 hours to really give it a run through, I thought that I'd share some thoughts on the iPhone. Overall, Apple has really delivered. Someone in my sunday school class asked me what it can do that she can't do with her blackberry. It's not that you ...

iWait

I can just see Steve Jobs trying to explain this, "Yes its the easiest, revolutionary activation process....and will take hours, thanks to At&t being completely unprepared." So, I got my 8Gb iPhone today. The lines weren't bad at all. Several people spent the night in front of the local Apple Store ...

Grey Flannel Navigator

Another prediction of the future, this time from Apple, but it's interesting how accurate that it was. This one's from 1988. Consider that in 1988, the Internet was only for academic pursuits. It wasn't opened to commercial and personal use until 1992. http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/05/apples-grey-flannel-navigator-1988.html

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...