Posted in Random Thought on Aug 24th, 2006
It seems not one but both of the batteries for my Powerbook G4 are affected by the Apple Recall. Well, that totally sucks. I can’t recharge the thing without being here to watch it.
Kinda takes the portable out of portable computer, eh?
I wonder how long the replacement batteries will take to get here.
Posted in Random Thought on Jun 3rd, 2006
My Nephew is in a Rehab hospital trying to recover from a spinal
“incident.” I say incident because they’re not really sure what has
happened, except that he’s unable to move from the hips down for the
last 2 weeks and a half. He’s a bright, fun 12 year old with a great
attitude, and amazingly high spirits.
There is [...]
Posted in Random Thought on May 24th, 2006
It seems Dell has been watching the Apple Stores, and is opening its own retail outlets, both in Texas, and in Nyack at my local Palisades Mall. Palisades is supposedly the 2nd largest mall in America, and it does have a Skating Rink, merry-go-round and Ferris Wheel inside.
It also has an Apple Store, so [...]
Posted in Random Thought on May 16th, 2006
I’ve had accounts with Fidelity for years. I had one set of stocks at SSB (no link) that I wanted to transfer out to save on fees charged. Well, the fine Citi/SSB folks charged me $95 for the privlege of taking my stock out and sending it electronically (which takes almost no time and costs almost zero [...]
Posted in Random Thought on Apr 4th, 2006
I got the chance to have lunch with one of my favorite podcasters, Michael Butler,aka the Rock and Roll Geek, and his lovely wife, Athina.
Michael was, in person, the same guy he is on the podcast, talking rock, talking geek stuff, and generally being the kind of person you enjoy having a beer with. [...]
Posted in Random Thought on Mar 31st, 2006
testing new install of MT
Posted in Random Thought on Mar 8th, 2006
Meetup.com co-founder and CEO Scott Heiferman said at last night’s NY New Technology Meetup, (for which Scott is the Organizer) today Meetup will receive an investment from a “top 3” internet firm. No word on Google News or on Meetup’s Blog.
I’m anxious to hear the news, and hopeful that it is great for Scott, [...]
Posted in Random Thought on Mar 6th, 2006
If I were to put out a ‘family pc’ or ‘family mac’ (have to be polically correct about PC) and wanted both my wife and I to be able to hear IM buzzes if they happened, is there a way to be signed in on one user login, and have two IM clients going?
For [...]
Posted in Random Thought on Jan 30th, 2006
Userland software took down all the old weblogs - no notice. My howardgr.editthispage.com is gone - including my tale of my experience on 9/11.
An email asking for a fee or offering a download of the data would have been nice.
No, I haven’t touched it for a while. Yes, I would have liked to have it. [...]
Posted in Random Thought on Dec 6th, 2005
Tristan Louis, from the home office in New York, New York, with the (very intelligent and not-at-all-Dave-Letterman-like) Signs of a Bubble.
Required reading for the intelligent, post-dot-com-bubble investor, job-seeker, trend watcher.
Example:
At the bottom of the list is the belief that the poster child for a particular bubble can do no wrong. This is generally a [...]
