Archive for March, 2008

Living in Bangor

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

We've nearly been there for just over two months and I can think of no downsides. At the moment, the commute from Bangor takes about twenty minutes (leaving the house at 7 am) and the commute home takes about forty minutes (leaving at 4:20 pm). In short my commute time ...

Run Windows games under Mac OS X

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Codeweavers writes: " Today we shipped CrossOver Games. I am very excited by this change; I have enjoyed computer games all of my life, and I like the idea that we can help others enjoy their new computers fully." Oh noes! I need more free time!

Penny for your thoughts

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

David Owen in the New Yorker wrote: "In 1940, an average one-pound loaf of bread sold for eight cents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That means that a penny in those days bought enough bread to make a good-sized sandwich. These days, a penny doesn’t buy much more than ...

Mobile/Portable Computing Caveats

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something. The rant this ...