http://www.southernstars.com/LJ/Belize2010/

It's timeto add my own commentary to the brewing Apple-vs.-Google fray. It is well known that I am an Apple fanboy, and have a rather love-hate relationship with the "other" company. I make no attempt to hide my biases; rather, I'm justifying them. So, off we go ( Read more... )

It's been an awful long time since I've written anything in here ( Read more... )

Tom and I hiked up Mount Livermore at the top of Angel Island yesterday to watch the Blue Angels put on their annual airshow for Fleet Week.

We almost missed the last ferry home, which would have been unfortunate for many reasons, not the least of which is that the island burned down over night. I smelled the smoke from my apartment when I got ( Read more... )

I am going to post a series of emails I've had back and forth with Dan Brown of Altura Software regarding their Mac2Win product. I kid you not, these are the actual emails I've had back-and-forth with the developer of their Mac to Windows porting toolkit, which we've paid them $12,000 (twelve thousand dollars) a year to license.

From: Tim ( Read more... )

Here they are:

http://www.southernstars.com/LJ/CR08/index.html

Enjoy!

At last minute, my ride to the Playa flaked.

I have one ticket for sale - if you know anyone who's interested, have them call my cell at (510) 499-7419.

Well, we bought the farm. (Er, rather, Tom bought the farm ( Read more... )

So it's been a good week. I've been busy, busy, busy lately, between work and such non-work events as:

• a surprisingly wet-and-wild rafting trip down the American River with radi0actv, thirdpyramid, and a few others (pictures here);
• a two-day bike trip up to Bolinas, for a stay with Len and Shawn at the beach house they'd rented for the week;
• a $1200 dinner at ( Read more... )

I just sold my motorcycle. To make myself feel better, I've decided to go to Burning Man.