Category: Tech

Keyed Up

My pal Tony sent me this shot of his old Olympia manual typewriter keyboard. Amazing how few keys we got by with. Olympia Portable Keyboard Nowadays we have a lot … Read More

Non-Shock

FreeHand is officially dead: http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3612 Golly. Anyone surprised? *nod* Didn’t think so. Bet there’s going to be a lot of pissed-off designers out there. Lots of folks (not me) loved … Read More

Out the Window(s)

http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=17512 US university dumps Windows to go all Mac Pennyslvania university is replacing 1,700 PCs with 1,450 Macs Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US online) Wilkes University announced on Wednesday that it … Read More

Longmont Education Summit

From FreeingEducation: Longmont Education Summit Free Event: The City of Longmont, Colorado will be hosting an Education Summit on Saturday, March 17. More information here. Register to attend here. Posted … Read More

Go Ahead, Buy a PC

From the Consumerist ( http://tinyurl.com/23ljrx ) Dan writes is to let us know that a Dell Laptop was the most probable cause of a fire that destroyed his home. We … Read More

Classy, real classy

I’ve been invited to give a talk about CSS at Boulder Digital Arts! http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/events/details.asp?offering=161 I’ll be doing some CSS-evangelism to the table-weary masses. Put on your geeky best and come’on … Read More

Nuclear Accidents

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents List of military nuclear accidents Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Cite This Source This article lists notable military accidents involving nuclear material. Civilian accidents are listed at List of … Read More

Comes v MS Case

http://iowaconsumercase.org/ Case background: Comes v. Microsoft is an Iowa state court class action brought by consumers, small businesses, and other indirect purchasers of Microsoft software products. Plaintiffs allege that from … Read More

Chip Wars Continue to Rage

Class action lawsuit filed against Dell. The suit claims Intel was bribing Dell to shut out AMD. Dell spokemen say the suit is a rehash of their dustup with AMD … Read More

Going Out of Business

http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/apple_makes_a_b.html Apple’s first-quarter 2007 results are the best ever. Thanks to selling an unbelievable 21.1 million iPods over the holidays, Apple reported record-breaking revenues for the December quarter of more … Read More

Vista vs OS X

Well, you already know my opinion about this, but here’s John C. Welch at Information Week with an in-depth comparison of Windows Vista and Apple OS X. Review: Mac OS … Read More

Near Miss

If this doesn’t scare the crap out of you, nothing will. The NTSB’s recent report on this very near miss is here. Can you say Tenerife? Ask me again why … Read More