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You’ll never guess where I’m calling from

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

So here I sit, writing a blog post in a most interesting fashion. I’m typing these words into a browser displayed on a NatureTech Note-170, a device that closely resembles a laptop, but isn’t — there’s no hard drive, RAM, or CD/DVD drive. The Note-170 is a Sun Ray client.
Sun’s Sun Ray thin-client platform has […]

Aaah…THERE’s Where Leopard Went: The iPhone

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I fucking KNEW it. TUAW’s broke it earlier today. Leopard’s delayed. But not because they’re trying to squeegee it into the iPhone. Because they’re just trying to get the iPhone out as soon as possible. Means they did what MS did when they had that glitch during Vista development. Move a bunch of programmers from […]

Ummm…Where the fuck is Leopard?

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Those Clearasil-needing Orchard geeks said ’spring 2007′. It may be snowing up here in the great nerd north, but it’s still spring. But total silence from Apple’s much-to-desired PR department on Leopard’s arrival. In between I’m-God’s-gift sound bytes at Macworld Expo, we all expected to hear something about the new feline’s arrival from Mr. Stevie. […]

Rant on MOAB

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Sorry, I have to do this.
The FUD surrounding security issues with the Mac has recently gone plaid. It was MOAB (Month of Apple Bugs) in January, followed by a seemingly constant stream of Windows folks pointing  at that site and screaming “SEE?!”.
Sorry. It’s mostly bullshit.
First, the MOAB project should have been named “Month of Bugs […]