Rip Ragged

The event on 09/09/09 starts at 10 am Pacific. The whole aesthetic of 999 is in the toilet. Unless you look at the last three digits. 910 is one after 909. If you’re as huge of a music fan as I am, you’ll know that means iTunes 8.2.2 is a sure bet for next week’s [...]

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My sources from the field have all reported in. Everybody – and I do mean EVERYBODY – except me has their copies of Snow Leopard. Since I run the most obsequious fanboi site on the entire frigging web, it only stands to reason that I’d be THE LAST FRIGGING PERSON ON THE PLANET TO GET [...]

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Now Little Psystar (pronounced: SIS-ter) is suing Apple for Snow Leopard. I’m not exactly sure what the whole thing is about, but it’s possible to rearrange the letters of Psystar to Prasyts. I would pronounce that “Pare-a-sites.” After a couple more legal dodges, Little Psystar will cease to exist. With any luck at all, their [...]

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Now, here’s a post about Snow Leopard that points out some shortcomings in a balanced and reasonable fashion. As you might expect, this is on TidBITS. On TidBITS you can actually read objective observations about OS X without having to read fanboi drivel of any stripe. It’s nice. Anyway, here’s the post. … Speaking of [...]

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I received a request from a reader to discuss a post on PC World. I don’t normally do requests, but then, I don’t usually get requests. The typist uses the nom de bouché of Randall C. Kennedy. The title of the post is something to the effect of “I’m a raging idiot,” or, possibly, “Please [...]

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Take a moment to Google “David Coursey Snow Leopard Snore.” It’s the first hit. I’ll wait. Don’t make any sudden moves near David. Giving David a computer is like giving a monkey a pistol. …. The tablet crowd has been getting together and smoking some top notch hashish. Weird stuff. If you don’t have time [...]

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