The Apple community has said this off and on for years, but now Business Week is asking — could IT professionals be keeping their networks PC-based to keep their jobs? Now here’s a conspriacy theory that I can sign up for.
Geekery
Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.
Digital rights
Finally, movement has been started to help preserve consumer’s rights regarding digital media: DigitalConsumer. More information and background can be found in a column from Walter Mossberg.
Apple vs. the Penguin
Unix Under the Desktop: A penguin’s eye look at Apple’s OS X, from Linux Journal.
Something for Casey
Something for Casey — how to hack a half-price Apple Airport base station.
The truth about Asimov
Janet Asimov, in a biography of her late husband Isaac Asimov (It’s Been A Good Life), has revealed that he actually died of AIDS contracted during bypass surgery, but the doctor at the time advised that the information not be disclosed to the public. Interesting.
I got into As The Apple Turns!
Hey — I’m famous! Or…something like that. See, I stumbled across a link earlier today that I thought might be of interest to my favorite Apple-flavored soap opera, As the Apple Turns — and they used it for one of their stories today! Too cool…check it out: Aqua in the candy dish!
2 hours in the life of a ‘puter geek
Ever wondered just what ‘geeking out’ entails? Some nights it’s diving into whatever the geek’s code of choice is (HTML and CSS for me), other nights it’s more hardware based. Well, tonight I had a problem with my primary work Mac, and kept a log of what I was doing as I went along. Feel free to take a look if you’d like….
Buckets of what?
Times I wish I had a ‘completely bizarre’ category. I can understand being peeved if I had a music video being shot outside my apartment at 4am. But did Britney Spears really deserve to have buckets of urine thrown at her (and…though I hesistate to ask…just why did these L.A. residents have buckets of urine available to throw?)?
Geek code
Here’s my geek code.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GAT d+ s:-- a- C++ U*++++ P+ L- E--- W+++
N+ o K w--- O---- M++ V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5
X++ R-- tv-- b++ DI++ D+ G e h r+ y*
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Blogsnob
This is nice to know — I just signed up with BlogSnob to display little text ads (you should be able to see the ad on the right side, between “Books” and “blog rings/links”). I display links to other people’s blogs, and my link gets displayed on other people’s blogs. I just checked my stats, and since I signed up on the 7th — just four days ago — my ad has been displayed 208 times, and I’ve had 6 people visit my site from my BlogSnob ad on another site. This gives me a 2.88% click-through rate, which while it doesn’t sound very high, when ad banner click-through rates are commonly reported at somewhere around .25% or lower, it’s pretty good. I’ll be staying with these guys.
I was having some problems getting the code to validate, but just got a little help from ServMe (FriedKitten), and now everythings validating and displaying without a hitch. Woohoo!