On the road to Mac OS X Lion: the untold story
The Apple versus Google rivalry revealed! I took this photo at San Diego Zoo. On the road to Mac OS X Lion (full size).
Category Archives: technology
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Photos taken at the Apple Store, Columbia Mall, Columbia, Maryland. Photos taken, appropriately, with an iPhone 4.
Why you should always supply a caption
If someone sends you a photo, they should always supply a caption. Otherwise, you might supply your own.
Online notebooks
Have you ever wondered how to keep track of all those interesting and ephemeral pieces of trivia that you find on the Internet? The odd photos, strange captions, useful Web sites and such? You haven’t? Too bad: here are Continue reading Online notebooks
Driving directions
3236 Yes, these are ads. And not even new ads, but they are new to me. The first reminds me of an overly prescriptive, talkative GPS unit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljFfL-mL70 and this one reminds me of times when the GPS unit gets Continue reading Driving directions
Beach creatures
1690 Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who does Rube Goldberg one better. While Goldberg’s creations were spectacularly clever and astoundingly useless, they were very much artifices: without a human creating them, they wouldn’t exist. Your typical Rube Goldberg device Continue reading Beach creatures
Greener San Diego
San Diego has a desert climate. It isn’t just slightly short of water; it has virtually none. The average yearly rainfall is just nine inches. There are virtually no sources of fresh water; virtually all fresh water is piped in Continue reading Greener San Diego
Distracted driving
I took this photo of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds at Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force Base). Distracted driving (full size).
Multi-million dollar Mac mini
The ads were scanned from some magazines from the late 1970s. I know people who still use such antiques, and constantly complain how difficult it is to use them on the Internet, or for any other useful purpose. Multi-million dollar Mac Continue reading Multi-million dollar Mac mini