Entries Tagged as 'Global Warming'

Miscellany and Fluff

September 12th, 2008 · 21 Comments

iJust downloaded and installed iPhone 2.1, and it seems to work fine. Caveat updator, do your sync first. Let it finish. If you try to make it update the software and sync at the same time it’s a little balky.
Anyway, it’s done. Wifey-poo’s phone was having a host of bizarre bugs that seem to have […]

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Tags: Baseless Rant · Follies of Humanity · Gadgetry · General Detritus · Global Warming · Music Review · Political Crap · Predictions · Punditbots and Fundtards · Sarah Palin · iPhone |

Apple Lied, Jason Fried

August 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments

John Gruber apparently supports Jason Fried having sand in his crack over less than honest iPhone advertising. This in reference to the “unslow” iPhone 3G ad. It seems the ad shows an iPhone winning at the Brickyard or possibly the Preakness (I didn’t catch all the details). I guess the iPhone isn’t quite as fast […]

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Tags: Darling Furball · Follies of Humanity · Global Warming |

Interesting note on Little Psystar

June 19th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Apple Insider is reporting that Little Psystar (pronounced: SIS-ter) is introducing an Xserve clone that runs Leopard Server. Take this with a grain of salt and a wedge of lime - I mean if you really must drink shitty tequila – the death of Psystar  is going to be big and bloody and ugly.
I predict […]

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Tags: Apple TV · DRM Follies · Follies of Humanity · Gadgetry · General Detritus · Global Warming · Leopard · Little Psystar · Macalope · Master Jobst Fimil · Political Crap · Predictions · Punditbots and Fundtards · Snow Leopard · iPhone · iPhone killer · iTunes Rivals |

Microsoft Buys Liechtenstein

June 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Liechtenstein has reported that it is now a subsidiary of Microsoft. The small European nation of 34,000, located between Austria and Switzerland will now report directly to Rick Thompson, the head of Microsoft’s Zune division.
Mr. Thompson, caught on the way from his pedicure to a golf date said, “Huh?”
Calls to Liechtenstein have been deemed largely […]

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Tags: Follies of Humanity · Gadgetry · General Detritus · Global Warming |

WWDC: Beyond the hype.

June 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Faithful reader tory sent in a link to a post. I went and read it. It pertained to Microsoft. In particular, it was about the quarrel between Lord Nerdious and Darth Fester and how they couldn’t resolve the fact that Bill wanted Steve to call the shots but wouldn’t let him and Steve wanted to […]

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Tags: Baseless Rant · Gadgetry · General Detritus · Global Warming · Microsoft · iPhone killer |

Mother’s Day 2008

May 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

It’s Mother’s Day. All you mothers have a great day. I have the kitchen detail.
This morning - waffles with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
Dinner - Barbecued baby back ribs with corn on the cob and baked potatoes.
Dessert - Cheesecake.
 Today’s post will be brief.

I read over on Macworld that NBC and Apple may be trying to […]

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Tags: Follies of Humanity · Gadgetry · General Detritus · Global Warming · Microsoft · iPhone |