All Hail the New Mac

I have bowed to the inevitable, and bought a Great Big Expensive Mac Pro.  This is a dual quad-core machine, and I just got an extra 4 gigs of RAM from Crucial (NOT the Mac store – their prices are nothing short of absurd) so that I can really work on...

Great Use of a Mash-up to Tell a Story

Where has Hillary really been, and under what circumstance? Check out this use of the Google map-customization features… In the wake of the "Platoon coming into a hot LZ" story that Hillary floated last week – and that rose up to bite her in the...

New toys arriving soon…

The posts here have been pretty sporadic – it’s my hope that the imminent arrival of a Nokia N95 cellphone (the new & slightly improved N96 is pictured to the right) will inspire me to put the thing thru its paces to see how useful a tool it is to...

The Road to Barranquilla

…and no, this is not some forgotten Hope & Crosby "Road" movie, co-starring Ginger Rogers & Betty Grable. This is a "Guest Post" by Janine, and I’m running it here because it’s well-written and also because I’m so...