Handbrake
To check out when I next upgrade my iPod: handbrake. (Tip o’ the pirate’s hat to George).
View ArticleDatabase Resurrection
Sometime last July, the Movable Type setup that powered every weblog on our various domains went belly up. All logins failed, password retrievals failed… the database appeared to be empty. But the...
View ArticleApple’s Web Standards Heresy
When I code up a new web page, I frequently rely on the world’s largest repository of CSS reference materials – tha Intarweb. This evening I was Googling for techniques on using CSS to pin a footer at...
View ArticleOpen For Business
My good friend Tom, guru of all things Apple, has left his job in the non-profit sector to set about on matters that are decidely for profit. Tom is now officially “Open For Business.” I am available...
View ArticleOnline via Cell Phone
Having a newborn generally requires a hospital stay of at least 48 hours for basic observation. Of course, for Mommy and Daddy, cabin fever comes quickly. For me, about the only thing preventing me...
View ArticleOne More Thing
For those of you who just got your first Apple product – a shiny new iPod or PowerBook – for Christmas, but aren’t yet totally familiar with all that Mac culture has to offer, let Tom tell you what...
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Spoiling the New Intel-Based MacBooks
Others have done a much better job than I could of summing up today’s news about the new Intel-based Mac hardware, so I’ll just nod vaguely in Cupertino’s direction and go about my day. Except for...
View ArticleFlorida Bar Condemns That Which It Does Not Understand
I got my Florida Bar News yesterday and while flipping through it this morning I have discovered that the Bar’s Board of Governors has voted to condemn the practice of viewing metadata in electronic...
View ArticleDvorak Lunacy
How is it possible that someone like John Dvorak has been writing a nationally-published computer column for decades when he produces such totally indefensible intellectual fluff? Will Apple Adopt...
View ArticleThe Biggest Opportunity Apple is Missing
Apple periodically likes to pay lip service to the idea that some law firms use Macs instead of Windows-based systems. Their recent highlight of an Atlanta firm underscores why more attorneys have...
View ArticleImperfect Iteration
Oh, no. Tom’s MacBook Pro is a lemon, and the repair tools that shipped with it aren’t Intel-Book compatible. This has got to be a real bummer for Tom, since I know how much he was looking forward to...
View ArticleBoot Camp Backfire?
I think running Windows on an Apple machine is tantamount to desecration. Andrew Kantor of USA Today thinks it’s a market-share opportunity for Microsoft. I use the word “thinks” very lightly: But the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Google
Dear Google, Sitting here in front of my laptop with browser windows open all over the place and hot-key access to all your features, I am completely and utterly smitten. No other search engine does...
View ArticleThe Hidden Story on the Florida Bar’s Metadata Position
Several months ago, I noted that the Florida Bar had decided to burn witches – urm, prohibit the mining of metadata. Doing some metadata research today, I finally found the real reason the Bar acted so...
View ArticleNext Mac OS X Upgrade Will Feature Eater-of-Worlds File System
ZFS. Sounds innocuous, doesn’t it? But when Daring Fireball reported that Apple’s OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard, would include support the new file system, I had to do some poking around. Turns out...
View ArticleMicrosoft is Dead
I Come Not to Praise Microsoft… Paul Graham thinks that Microsoft is dead, and he gives four reasons why. Widespread availability of broadband, which fueled… The emergence of Google, which led to… The...
View ArticleWhat’s In a Number?
Do you know the significance of this number? 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640 It’s currently at the heart of a battle over First Amendment rights. Some think it’s hexed.
View ArticleYet Another iPhone Post
So I just went to the Apple Store to play with the demos. Some observations: As one who loves to surf the web from anywhere on my Treo, I could get seriously enamored with the slick...
View ArticleThe End of Days: Google Calendar for Mobile Broken?
A few months ago, Google announced that its Calendar app would be accessible by PDA-based web browsers. It worked like a dream. And for someone like me, a lawyer on the go, it was a great tool....
View ArticleBlogrolling: Doppleganger?
So how come I never met this guy? He lives in Florida, is an FSU fan, a Mac user, and a Halo player. I’m sure we’d get along famously. My Orlando friends have some ‘splainin to do.
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Dreamhost System-Wide Outrages
I’ve been a Dreamhost customer since 2000. In that time, I found a lot to like about the service. It’s been convenient to use, packed with all the features I could want and then some, and seemed...
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Apple saves the world: drops planet-threatening filesystem from OS plans
A few years ago, I was concerned that Apple wanted to boil the planet’s oceans by including the ZFS file system in a future release of OS X. (I know that saying “ZFS file system” is like saying “ATM...
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Steve Jobs 1955–2011
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions...
View ArticleNote to Self: Cleaning up Hacks
Sadly, its necessary for me to leave these reminders here: If you get eval(base64 hacked on wordpress/dreamhost I have a shared host on Dreamhost that just got hacked to shit. A fairly standard hack,...
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