Crescent City. The Big Easy. Murder Capital of the USA. I was there once for a college Spring Break, had coffee at Cafe du Monde, had hurricanes on Bourbon Street, rambled through the Garden District, looked over my shoulder at night in the French Quarter expecting to see a man in 1800′s garb and hear [...]
I’ve always loved my platform and I could never understand why anyone would want to use anything else. On May 14 of this year (the Best Day Ever), I got my new iMac. She’s a beauty and this operating system is amazing in ways even non-Mac devotees have had to laud. After tinkering with it [...]
This is a general tirade but it was instigated by that Vioxx settlement and a letter in the paper today. Merck just lost a ruling to pay some woman $256 million in a settlement about its drug Vioxx. Vioxx is a pain medicine, an anti-inflammatory used by arthritics without the side effects of narcotics. But [...]
I considered law as a degree when I was trying to find out how I’d make money. But I suspected then what I know now. I could never be a DA or ADA. I would find it unbelievably frustrating that some criminal got off because of a technicality. I’d feel trapped and betrayed by the [...]
I don’t understand the argument that a Mac costs too much and that’s why people choose not to get one. I was listening to a podcast (I don’t remember which one) in which a Mac guy tells of how he’d try to sell people Macs but they’d often go for the PC just because it [...]
I was reading the paper and the BBC online about this today. I had only heard about it from a distance as I’ve been involved with a lot of web work lately. But what was actually going on finally sunk into my cranium today. Israel has ordered its settlers to pull out of the contested [...]
U2 closed the European leg of the Vertigo tour tonight in Lisbon, Portugal. I hate when good things end, even if I wasn’t there. I’ve tried to be jealous of the people who went to the Euro shows, but I just can’t. I’m strangely happy for them. Rest now, guys, and come back to us [...]
To the rock fan, to the music fan, to anyone who’s ever bewailed the sad state of the music industry where money men have more power and say than the artists who actually write the music. For anyone bitten by the RIAA. For anyone who hates the corporate greed that’s turned music from transcendent to [...]
There were two very good letters in Monday’s paper. One of them referenced the mess in Iraq and then quoted Alexis de Tocqueville about the people getting the government they deserve via the vote. The writer of the letter quotes that and then says, “After last year’s election, we did.” Sad but true. And then [...]
Coldplay. I know, it doesn’t bring up visions of fanatical rock concert mania to me either. The name doesn’t. When I hear it, I think quiet, thoughtful, beautiful rock anthems not rattling crowd pleasers. Have they been hedging all this time? Last night by the river side they proved to me rock’s future is in [...]
A Chevy commercial on Virgin Radio UK just used the word “flummoxed”. Read that again. Amazing.
A sibling, who had previously used only those ugly, cheap things called PCs, has purchased an iBook. The move to Mac has inspired me to take a hard look at the platform I’ve been using for 21 years. I love my Macs. 4 computers on (in my early days of use, I was in the [...]