It’s hard to see how the Apple relationship with Intel isn’t paying off already. The new MacBooks sure look to me like they compare very well price-wise with business class laptops from PC vendors, and they’ll have Apple’s fit and finish to boot. According to Steve Jobs’ keynote, all of the Mac hardware will [...]
Entries from January 2006
I Heart Intel
January 10th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Alito: oppose to the death
January 10th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Not that any Democratic Senators read this weblog, but I’m writing a brief note anyway that I believe that the Samuel Alito nomination is one that Democrats should be prepared to fight until the bitter end, taking advantage of any parliamentary loophole they can to put an end to. From everything I’ve read, Alito is [...]
The memory leak, continued
January 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I just wanted to post a brief update on where I am with the memory leak problem that I described back on December 19. I tried out both JProfiler and YourKit until the evaluation periods ran out, and while I was not able to isolate the memory leak with either of them, but to me, [...]
Guy Kawasaki’s blog
January 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Did you know that Guy Kawasaki has a blog? I’m surprised that it has taken the inventor of company evangelism so long to pick up the habit. Now that he’s started, though, he’s on a roll. His posts on the Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs and the Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists are [...]
Liar liar liar
January 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Don’t miss The Smoking Gun’s lengthy exposé revealing the fact that the author of the best selling memoir A Million Little Pieces, James Frey, is actually a novelist. I guess this is going to send Oprah right back to dead novelists when it comes to making book club selections.
The climate change debate is over
January 7th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Apparently the climate change debate is officially over. Global warming is a fact and it’s mostly our fault. Now what are we going to do about it?
iPod Rescue
January 7th, 2006 · 13 Comments
The other day I mentioned that my hard drive died and I lost all of the song ratings and play counts from my iTunes library. Some people made some excellent suggestions in the comments about how I might be able to rescue that data. As it turns out, fate was on my side. [...]
Google DRM
January 6th, 2006 · No Comments
Along with Google’s announcement that they’ll be selling video content via Google Video comes the news that they’ve created yet another DRM system. Reverse engineering hackers, start your engines!
About time
January 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tivo previewed the Series 3 box today, with HDTV support and the ability to record two programs at once. Excellent!
One dangerous idea
January 5th, 2006 · 3 Comments
The Edge Foundation’s question for 2006 is, “What is your dangerous idea?” They explain:
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily [...]