Moving on from Retrospect. The tech support dept is lousy, the product is slow and clunky. The last straw? My mother’s biege G3 needed a new backup device. She’d been using a Zip drive, then moved on to a Yamaha SCSI-based CD-RW. Then we found a DVD-RW (USB and Firewire) for her. The Dantz support […]
It had to happen. The strains between Apple and the OS community are showing. I see where the KHTL developers are calling it a failure. I think it may have been, but to me it seems it was a failure expectations more than anything else. Dave Hyatt blogs a little a bout it. KDE developers […]
Yes, I blog about some politics. But when I think about blogging and politics, I have to chuckle. For example: Mark Glaser writes about something called BlogNashville, apparently a kind of blogger conference started by a conservative who found too many liberals at the previous blogger conference. And there is a bit of a brew-up […]
I have to admit, the cover painting played a part in my purchase of this book. One of the rare times that has occurred, because it’s been my experience that most cover paintings seem to be done by an artist who has read (or at least paid attention to) little more than the title of […]
James Patterson’s recent outing for profiler Alex Cross was, to be blunt, a disappointment. The premise is that Alex Cross has left the DC police and joined the FBI in order to have more time with his family. We’ll leave the obvious point that this is unrealistic and scarcely credible alone, chalking it up to […]
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