I don’t remember how I ended up there (really, I don’t) but I happened upon the Gap.com women’s clothing section the other day, and noticed that they have a new feature on their site. For certain items of clothing, if you hover your mouse over the image, a closer version will appear. This is great […]
Month: January 2008
We watched the Mythbusters tackle the “Airplane on a Conveyor Belt” issue last night. They did not really build a huge conveyor belt (they essentially used a long canvas tarp to pull the runway out from under the plane), and so the result (the airplane took off) won’t really satisfy everyone. But, it remains the […]
Nanny needed for one half hour per day
So we’re thinking about what to do for our babysitter-enabled evening this weekend, and we realize that what we really want most is to have someone get our kids ready for bed. The bedtime routine of prodding, cajoling, and (usually) threatening the kids into their pajamas is a brutal gauntlet at the end of a […]
My wife turns 21 today
Okay, not 21, exactly, but that’s the best answer when a woman asks you to guess her age. It is her birthday today, and we have big plans. Okay, not exactly big plans, because we’re parents of two kids under five, and she’s a second-year college professor, but we do have a babysitter for Saturday […]
Apple Displays and the iSight
Anyone else wondering when Apple will put an iSight camera in their freestanding LCD displays? Or if they ever will? I believe that every time someone at Apple takes a look at the issue, they flash back to the ADC monitors with their all-in-one Apple-only cable, and all the problems and bad press they got […]
Rose at night
I took this photo a long, long, long time ago. With the kids home for MLK day, got no time to post. So here’s what you get. There are a few more of this guy up on Flickr.
Here is the original master plan. It is notable mostly for predicting yesterday’s Apple TV announcement, and for my woeful bitching about the computer that I still have now (that was more than two years ago!) I now present to you, the new edition of the Home Computing Master Plan, as informed by the recently […]
Okay, I touched on this in my Macworld coverage, but it deserves its own post. We have a TiVo Series 3 that connects to the Internet. I can see us owning an Apple TV at some point in the future. We are members of Netflix. All three of these allow for some form of digital […]
MW 2008: Liveblogging winners
Clearly the winners of the liveblogging competition were the guys at MacRumors. Their AJAX-powered interface gave news updates in a timely manner, and their photo feed was showing relevant photos at the right time. Second place goes to Ars Technica, for their almost-as-up-to-the-moment feed as MacRumors, combined with a little more commentary (the MacRumors stuff […]
Questions about Time Capsule
Part of the Macworld 2008 Keynote post-mortem. Time Capsule is Apple’s wireless hub + backup drive all-in-one product. It provides fast wireless networking: 802.11n. It provides a large, “server-grade” hard drive, accessible wirelessly. (By “server-grade” they seem to mean 7200 rpm, SATA.) You can use this hard drive to make Time Machine backups from all […]