Posted in Apple on December 13th, 2002 No Comments »
From this article comes this quote: The next time you check your e-mail and want to curse the lowlife responsible for all that unwanted commercial e-mail--aka spam--you might start cursing into a mirror. Hate the sender all you want, the sad fact is that you may very well be the person ultimately responsible for the […]
Posted in Computing on December 13th, 2002 No Comments »
In Hackass, John Gruber writes about Leander Kahney, the Apple beat writer for Wired "News." At the end, after a fairly brief but accurate disassembly of what I would agree to be the work of a "Hackass," Gruber proposes that we "simply ignore" comments like this.
Posted in Apple on December 12th, 2002 No Comments »
I switch someone to a Mac nearly every time I work. Granted, I only work one or two days a week, and still for the benefits, but it's pretty interesting stuff. I've read a bunch of stuff about how "oh, those Switch ads aren't working" or "the market share isn't rising" or whatever. I'll tell […]
Posted in Computing on December 11th, 2002 1 Comment »
Spam. It's not just for dinner anymore… it's for dinner, lunch, breakfast, and, if my case is considered normal (it's not), it's for while you're sleeping. I receive about 350 emails per day. A little under half are spam. If I had to sort through spam at a pretty fast rate of one second per […]
Posted in Apple on December 11th, 2002 No Comments »
Want to pretend you're Madonna, Beck, No Doubt, or Tony Hawk? Apple now lets you. Get 'em while they're hot, kids.
Posted in Computing on December 11th, 2002 1 Comment »
Interland recently deleted some very precious files from /usr/home/barzeski (my main user) on my Freedom Unix (FreeBSD) box which hosts this site (and every other one). I called their tech support line (their email system being ineffective) and spoke with someone who may as well have stuck his index finger between his lips and hummed […]
Posted in Personal on December 10th, 2002 1 Comment »
The problem with Florida - well, one of them anyway - for me as a northern boy is that it's currently 80 degrees outside. While this may not seem like such a bad thing, I should also point out that it's December 10… Fucking Florida though. I love walking around in shorts. I love it. […]
Posted in Computing on December 10th, 2002 10 Comments »
I hate perl. I really really do. Sometimes. And yet, I realize it's a powerful thing. I realize it actually DOES something with the billions of bytes it downloaded to my server just a few hours ago. Granted, I'm not sure where Perl 5.8.0 WENT after it downloaded, configured, and installed itself (the server still […]