iMacs in the movies

Most of the computers in movies for several years have been Macintoshes, maybe because the Mac is the only computer that doesn’t look like every other computer and therefore benefits from product placement. But this is the first movie in which an entire iMac commercial runs on TV in the background of a shot.

How’s that for random trivia? Thanks to Roger Ebert’s review of Showtime for this little tidbit.

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….

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Geek code

Here’s my geek code.

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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------