Archives for the 'Personal' Category
Capsule Review: “Wall-E” is GREAT, but it’s NOT a movie for kids…
Kathi and I saw “Wall-E” last weekend and loved it: typical Pixar brilliance in that it’s utterly atypical.
But it’s SO bleak, so dark, so sad in so many ways… it’s just not appropriate for most children. Certainly not my seven year old daughter and three year old son.
Although I’m confident that they’ll see it on [...]
Sometimes retail shopping annoys me
I want to create a new series of digital photos for my in-laws, to whom we gave a digital frame a couple of months back. I could hand them a SmartDisk or a thumb drive, but they aren’t all that tech-savvy and a CompactFlash card — just like the one I gave them with [...]
Big media FAILS AGAIN!
Today, Monday morning on June 9, 2008, I have yet to listen to Hillary Clinton’s exit speech from the presidential race. I’m about to be in the car for the morning and thought I’d download the speech and listen to it on my iPod as I drive.
Turns out, I can’t find a podcast of the [...]
Short Post: Mac/PC/Palm Calendar Woes
Why is it impossible to find a program that will empower my wife Kathi and I to synchronize our datebooks across:
My Palm Treo 700p
My Dell desktop
My Dell laptop
Kathi’s Palm PDA
Kathi’s Mac iBook?
A web calendar
This doesn’t seem like an impossible dream, but so far it is.
Does anybody out there have an idea on this? I’d [...]
Personal: Mexican Villa Getaway for sale: 5/25-5/31
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Update: This got snapped up. Thanks for the quick response!
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This has almost nothing to do with media (see the end for how it does).
We bought a fantastic vacation in Mexico, and now for various schedule reasons cannot use it. So, we’re selling it, and I thought I’d offer it to [...]
