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Archive for August, 2006

4 things I hate about my Mac for programming

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

OK, don’t take me the wrong way, I love my Mac; I have had one since way back when, ‘98 probably. I bought Apple stock back at $11 a share b/c I so believed in where Apple was headed with the new iMacs and OS X (iPod didn’t even exist then). Like all [...]

Cambrian House Publicity Stunt

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Nice publicity stunt by Cambrian House. Turns out the start up sent 1,000 pizzas to the Googleplex in an effort to lure the engineers outside. They filmed the whole thing and put it on YouTube.
See it here:

Viewsonic 20″ Monitor Review

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

I bought the Viewsonic 20″ Flat Screen about one week ago, and I must say, I am quite impressed.  For approximately $300 (after rebate) I feel I got a pretty capable monitor.  I am not sure why I waited so long to get a widescreen format display, but I now wish I had sooner.  The [...]

Velochimp on Lemond on Landis

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Velochimp has a pretty funny article on Greg Lemond and his whiny ways. He adds in an article (unknown source, although my guess is it is the Mpls. Star Tribune) where someone mocks out Lemond for thinking he could have, essentially, won every Tour De France from 1903 on, but for __________ reason.