Posted in Personal on May 31st, 2014 No Comments »
Irrational? What's the question? I don't see it. Also, I don't think "being offended by something in which you don't believe" is the proper framing of the situation. Would Christians be offended if instead of "under God" was replaced by "under Buddha" or "under Allah"? Probably, and justifiably so. P.S. I don't consider myself an […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 30th, 2014 No Comments »
Don't assume that everyone else is going to drive properly. Others make mistakes, but you can avoid accidents by driving defensively.
Posted in Technology on May 29th, 2014 No Comments »
One gear = no shifting. I've roasted my fair share of "fast" cars within a city block…
Posted in Apple on May 28th, 2014 No Comments »
You know what it is? That the damn Siri realizes my name is spelled "Erik" - not only on my iPhone, but on the friends who iMessage me or who say my name in other contexts. Perhaps the type-ahead stuff will help with that. I've always found it ridiculous that my iPhone couldn't be trained […]
Posted in Recreation on May 27th, 2014 No Comments »
Looking forward to this: And the background info on the name, of course…
Posted in Golf on May 26th, 2014 No Comments »
Yesterday Nat played in her first U.S. Kids Golf local "tour" event. Stupidly, we arrived at the course at 12:30, because tee times started at about 1:20. Unfortunately, her tee time was 4:47… so we went to Boston Market and to a driving range to kill some time, then came back to the course at […]
Posted in Computing on May 25th, 2014 No Comments »
I think it's the fact that I'm running a virtual dedicated host, but these kinds of things aggravate me: why is my server status "red" when I'm barely using any of the CPU or Memory?
Posted in Technology on May 24th, 2014 No Comments »
Phantom 2 Vision+ | DJI Getting Started with the DJI Phantom 2 QuadCopter for my Birthday? Still waiting. Here's to 2015?
Posted in Technology on May 23rd, 2014 No Comments »
As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish. Maybe the U.S. Government should go after Apple again.
Posted in Computing on May 22nd, 2014 No Comments »
Michael Tsai on What Backblaze Doesn't Back Up: My other concern is that Backblaze doesn't actually back up everything. It fails all but one of the Backup Bouncer tests, discarding file permissions, symlinks, Finder flags and locks, creation dates (despite claims), modification date (timezone-shifted), extended attributes (which include Finder tags and the "where from" URL), […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 21st, 2014 No Comments »
They had a security breach. Log on and update your eBay password if you haven't already. That is all for this public service announcement.
Posted in Technology on May 20th, 2014 No Comments »
AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion in Move to Expand Clout I'm a long-time subscriber to both. I wonder if that will benefit me at all.
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 19th, 2014 No Comments »
Stop forcing people to wear bike helmets. Not motorcyclists. Bikers. Bike riders. There's very little evidence to support the idea that bicycling is terribly dangerous. In fact, wearing a helmet may make you more likely to get in in an accident.
Posted in Apple on May 18th, 2014 No Comments »
A video about Bentleys (the cars) shot entirely on an iPhone 5S:
Panic Blog ยป Coda 2.5 and the Mac App Store and Michael Tsai cover it pretty well. Coda 2.5 will not be in the App Store, despite winning an Apple Design Award for "Best Mac App Store App" in 2012.