When the going gets tough, the tough veg…

Last night we indulged in absolutely one of our most favorite ‘inactivities’: we watched a sci fi DVD (John Wu’s ‘Paycheck’) on our Mac. Ostensibly, we were testing new Panasonic sound-reducing headphones (very nearly as nice as our broken Bose ‘phones for around one-fifth the price). We are so easily amused…

The Mini: maximum frustration, redux

So tonight marked someting like the 10th time I’ve had to crack the Mini to upgrade its RAM. Remember that one of the SODIMMs we ordered a couple weeks ago from Other World Computing just would not work.
At their advice, I re-opened and re-installed the RAM multiple times, to try every possible combination of DIMM […]

A cell phone portrait

The subject is moi, standing in the doorway of my office last Thursday. Photo by Robert Scoble. Thanks, Robert…

Scoble on Acrobat 8

Scoble’s posted his podcast interview with my boss, Rick Brown on Acrobat 8. Acrobat 8 will not be a secret much longer…

Big news…

…for all of us who work on the Acrobat team. Adobe Acrobat 8, and Reader 8, were announced at 12:01 PM (EST) tonight - including a built-in way to collaborate online called Acrobat Connect. Woo hoo! Full disclosure, I’m completely biased, and excited by Acrobat 8…

Splogs and link farms

We’ve been reading about splogs and link farms while traveling this past weekend. Splogs are spam blogs, nonsensical, robot-generated blogs that can scam search engine algorithms into highly placed results. Link farms refers to the giant universes of splogs that cross-link and, in so doing, convince the search engines that they are important, much-linked sites.
Splogs […]

Newly wed in Pasadena

Anne and Stuart, newly wed, head back up the aisle at All Saints Church in Pasadena. More than 500 parishioners showed up for the wedding at ASC, where Anne, a veteran of 28 years at this, the largest Episcopal church west of the Mississippi, has been described as the soul of All Saints. Friend Mike […]

Memories of Pasadena’s morning palms

These palms greeted us as we stumbled out on to the streets of Pasadena for a jog this A.M. We’re in town for the wedding of friends Anne Petersen and Stuart Coxhead (pictured, left), and staying at the Ritz Carlton, formerly the Huntington Sheraton. The old Huntington looms in our family legend. It was the […]

Off to Pasadena

After a very full week here in the Valley, we’re off to a wedding (our friend Anne Peterson is marrying the Rev. Stuart Coxhead), and a weekend with other dear friends in Southern California. I’m finishing up an intense week - I can talk about it Monday at 12:01 AM Eastern time. I bumped into […]

The new Apple iPod shuffle

We are intrigued by the new iPod shuffle, we must admit. I have always loved small machines, and the new Shuffle pushes the envelope on small. I can imagine that most headphones have a too-long wire: if you clip this thing to the collar on your T-shirt, you’ll have a couple of feet of floppy […]

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