Archives for Category: Rants

Empty Space

June 30, 2011

News Corps is going to sell MySpace to Specific Media for $35 million, which is about $545 million less than they paid for it six years ago. Cliff Notes Version, Not Without Biased Commentary: A shitty social website that is exponentially lamer now then when it started is going to

ROTC on Campus

December 30, 2010

A survey of Yale students shows that a majority of students support the return of ROTC to campus. Not so fast. Colman McCarthy writes in the Washington Post: “It should not be forgotten that schools have legitimate and moral reasons for keeping the military at bay, regardless of the repeal

Twitter Wisdom

October 12, 2010

One of the best tweets I have ever seen, today by John Podhoretz: People who retweet items in praise of themselves…shouldn’t. And the Gruber corollary to this—being a borderline asshole (usually about the Yankees) and then retweeting when people bitch about it—doesn’t work either.

More iTunes Pain

September 9, 2010

Note: This is now resolved. See Update 3 below. Last year, I wrote about my iTunes account/password being hacked, a situation that was handled well by Apple. Now, when I try to purchase an app, iTunes tells me my credit card has been declined. I have used this same credit

iTunes Hackery Continues

July 7, 2010

Last year I posted about how my iTunes Store account was hacked. Cliff note version: somebody got ahold of my iTunes account password and purchased some of their own bogus $10 apps from the iTunes store. I called Apple and they refunded me the charges and shortly thereafter, the apps

Randomness

October 25, 2009

I’m off to Owego, NY early in the AM for work. Need to coordinate all crappy weather to be somewhere other than O’Hare and Syracuse. I’ll be back on Friday. Here are some utterly random thoughts: I’m kind of beaked that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is going to be Intel-only

My Hacked iTunes Account

August 14, 2009

Shortly after I got my iPhone I was traveling on business and I was trying to download an app from the App Store directly to the phone. I saw a little error message saying that my iTunes password was incorrect. Still new to typing on this thing, I chalked it

I'm Not Good...but neither are you.

July 16, 2009

If you write a blog post for a blog no one reads, does it make a sound? So it has been a few weeks since my last post here…been busy…had another baby…whatever. One small contributor was Facebook, a internet phenomenon I had previously scoffed. After almost a year of using

Can I get an 8-Track?

August 8, 2008

This morning I’m listening to AM Sports radio on the drive to work. During the commercial break, one of those completely lame “let me tell you how to increase your personal wealth” ads come on. Normally I block that crap out, until the annoying pitchman with a British accent says

Slacker...

June 27, 2008

Excuses include the usual: hectic work schedule, rock in my shoe, and I just got back from vacation to San Diego. As I’m currently plowing through my 256 unread items in NetNewsWire, I was came up with the following question: is there a way to filter out all iPhone-related posts?

Better To Be Thought a Fool...

April 27, 2008

…then write a blog post and remove all doubt. A few weeks ago, Tom Engelhardt wrote an article for The Nation about the employment of air power in the war on terrorism. I read it, got seriously pissed and then let it sit. I went back and read it again.

Chickenhawks

April 14, 2008

Matthew Yglesias trots out the old chickenhawk argument, calling out John McCain, among others, because his daughter is not in the military. He neglects to mention that McCain has a son in the Marines that just returned from Iraq and another son at the Naval Academy, to say nothing of

Yawn

July 23, 2007

Recent events have caused me to modify my ongoing list of things I really don’t care about. Here is the current Top 5: Actually, anything remotely related to the iPhone Hacking the iPhone David Beckham (although if you add his wife, he bumps up a spot) Anything relating to any

Profile in Courage Nominee

May 1, 2007

I have written here before, in a blog post long since gone, about my utter disdain for Rage Against the Machine. Aside from the fact that their music pretty much sucks, my main beef is that they are a bunch of poseurs. I’ll buy their tired, ‘workers of the world

The Cool Table in the Cafeteria

March 8, 2007

If I could only read one blog a day, it would be John Gruber’s Daring Fireball. It’s the place for all things related to The Company Formerly Known As Apple Computer. But today he posted an entry that follows an irregular-but-no-less annoying pattern, which can be summarized as such: I’m

Today’s Checklist

March 7, 2007

Me: Sick The Lovely Wife: Also Sick My 11-month old son: Yep, sick too Amount of Fun Being Had: More than I can handle.

Not A Sports Guy

March 4, 2007

For the longest time, I have prided myself on my almost total apathy for professional sports. The one sport I get up for is college football, and everything that is good about it (the rivalries, the traditions, stadiums packed with 80–100,000 fans) does not exist in the NFL. The NBA?