Macworld’s 2 weeks away

While we probably aren’t up for standing for a couple days straight, we will be doing our usual, eclectic (some might say eccentric) Macworld coverage on gulker.com. So far we’ve touched base with Netgear, Pzizz, Parat, Targus, Harman/Kardon and JBL and, natch, we’ll be scoping Apple’s announcements…

Wikipedia

Wikipedia continues to amaze me… is there nothing that’s not written up on this massive, emergent encyclopedia of everything? Recently, I heard Rufus Wainwright’s version of the song ‘Hallelujah‘… curious, I searched Wikipedia, and sure enough found a long writeup, noting that Leonard Cohen wrote it and including lists of many of the artists […]

Cushing’s Syndrome

So, we’ve had a cold for a couple of days, and have used the opportunity of being more or less flat on our back to do a little health research (love that WiFi). The pictures above show the evolution of my mug over the past 18 months or so, during 12 of which I’ve […]

Clario, digital zoom and big CCDs

Clario arrived just in time for Christmas. Clario (Linda and I are very silly and name many inanimate objects in our household - the name is derived from the Latin clarus for ‘clear’) is a replacement for Silvio, an older Lumix FX-9 that had produced many spectacular pix on Linda’s blog before losing an accidental […]

New optics

Our Christmas present to ourself this year was a lens for the Leica M8 that was ordered last Christmas (camera came late, but lens arrived in time for Christmas).
It’s a new Leitz design, called the Tri-Elmar which provides 3 very wide-angle fixed focal lengths - 16, 18 and 21mm (35mm format) in a single lens […]

Christmas at Cathy’s

Granddad Mike, granddaughter Madeline and dad Nick are silhouetted in front of friend Cathy’s famous Christmas tree. Her tree is so loaded with lights, that, one year, a particularly big version blew not just her house’s circuit breakers, but the transformer that served her whole neighborhood (a story her friends have loved to tell and […]

Merry Christmas…!

Linda set a beautiful table and our friends, the Bostocks, were gracious enough to join us (it was Sara’s birthday, as well) and John, Julie and Grace rounded out our Christmas Eve. We exchanged gifts and later enjoyed Sara’s very chocolate birthday cake.
Julie , John and Grace got a new big-screen TV, Chris got a […]

Happy Holidays!

We hope all who have sent us a holiday card or letter will understand that we are doing our ‘card’ online (as usual). We haven’t had time to do printed, mailed holiday cards for years, much less for this very challenging year. So our ‘card’ is here (and above). And very happy holidays to all…

The mystery of video cards

Why is it that video card makers never put their name and model number on their products? I understand that one factory in China makes all the cards for all the different brands, but can’t ATI or NVidia put a sticker on the card somewhere?
Anyway I found this card in my parts box, and I […]

Leopard on the LAN

Well, we’ve installed Leopard on the spouse’s Mac (a dual G5, no less), which is always a challenge, given that I’m the help desk around here. So far, so good: a little grumping about the slow, beach-ball-spinning first log-in, but otherwise the process - including showing Linda how to change her desktop and screensaver - […]

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