May 2012
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May 28th
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May 28th
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Newsarama.com : Star Wars 35th Anniversary:... →
“More than a mere blockbuster, the Star Wars franchise became a record-setting media empire. Six live-action films and a computer-animated movie have filled theaters. An animated Star Wars TV series has been on the air for four years, with a fifth season set to debut in the fall; a live-action series, ‘Star Wars: Underworld,’ is in preproduction. Profits from licensed merchandise...
May 27th
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May 26th
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“There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and...”
– James Madison, letter to James Monroe, 1786 The United States is a nation of laws, not men.
May 25th
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May 24th
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PEBKAC: On Being Locked In, And Getting What I...
This column originally appeared in the January 2012 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. While I own a Kindle e-reader, I find I still do most of my electronic reading on my iPhone. Whether it’s in the Kindle app, or Barnes & Noble’s Nook app, or Apple’s own iBooks, I always have my iPhone with me, thus, I can always read an e-book, even if I left a dead-tree version,...
May 19th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 10th
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May 8th
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PEBKAC: Staying Connected in Africa
This column originally appeared in the December 2011 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. Greetings from Rwanda! As this issue goes to press, my wife and I are in the African republic finalizing the adoption of our third child. We’ve been here for two weeks, and have up to another week in Kenya to look forward to. (Procedural muckety-muck with US Immigration; not everything can be...
May 4th
April 2012
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Apr 30th
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March 2012
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Mar 27th
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Japanese TRON Lightsuit Dance. Okay, this is pretty cool.
Mar 27th
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Jen Hatmaker - Dear Trayvon's Mom →
tiffanyb: I kept looking for a quote to pull for Tumblr, but every paragraph was better than the last, and just… read the whole thing. My wife tweeted this link earlier today, so I only thought it proper to include it here as well.
Mar 27th
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Secret door inside this wardrobe leads to a... →
tiffanyb: *swoon* Suddenly wishing I knew where the load-bearing walls were upstairs…
Mar 27th
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PEBKAC: On the passing of Steve Jobs
This column originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. In 1996, I was working for The Computer Shoppe, in Metairie, Louisiana. The Computer Shoppe is distinctive in that it was one of the original Apple retailers signed up nearly twenty years before. That year Apple Computer, Inc. celebrated its twentieth anniversary, and there was much hullabaloo. One...
Mar 23rd
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“The other option is to forget about creating rules and lists and instead get an...”
– Christopher Breen, Macworld Admittedly, I’m biased, as Michael Tsai, the man behind C-Command, is a personal friend. I was on the original beta test team for SpamSieve, and have used every iteration since 1.0 hit the ether. If you’re a Mac user, this is the first app you should buy.
Mar 12th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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“I wanted to personally thank Baton Rouge, LSU, Coach Paul Mainieri and the...”
– Praise for BR, LSU, team and coach - theadvocate.com (via lsunews)
Mar 5th
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PEBKAC: Readers, Readers Everywhere, and Not A...
This column originally appeared in the October issue of About This Particular Macintosh. I have a problem. I love to read. (No, that’s not the problem, but we’ll get there.) Last year, I read forty-three books and novellas, a personal best since I began tracking annually three years ago. Over the past couple of years, a steadily increasing amount of my reading has been done...
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February 2012
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Feb 25th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 15th
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“The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been...”
– Ronald Reagan, whose 101st birthday is today.
Feb 7th
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This is the journey we took almost every day for a week, some times more than once a day, to the Home of Hope orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda. The video begins in front of Saint Famille Church, a site from the genocide where thousands sought refuge, but were betrayed by a priest and ultimately murdered. Shot 30 November 2011
Feb 6th
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Geeks vs Nerds →
Looking this over, I fall into the Geek camp, though I do have Nerdish tendencies.
Feb 2nd
January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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My Flickr photos, in Pummelvision! (Unfortunately, Pummelvision closes up shop today.)
Jan 24th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Getting some real laughs. Of course, his giggles here aren’t nearly as hearty as they were just seconds before, before the camera made an appearance. Still, pretty great.
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Move Like Badger
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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She’s got this thing figured out.
Jan 3rd
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PEBKAC: Never Forget
This column originally appeared in the September 2011 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. September 11th this year marks a decade since the United States suffered the worst-ever attack on its own soil. Like my parents’ generation with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, I can vividly recall where I was and what I was doing when the news broke. I remember watching NBC’s live...
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