I recently got myself a MacBook AIR – my 2008 MacBook Pro was getting a little stodgy, and the battery life wasn’t what it used to be. Plus I was really ready to try a netbook, or something that weighed less than the Pro – which, when you considered I had to bring the power [...]
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Loving My MacBook AIR
April 7, 2011
Ubuntu is the bomb…
December 20, 2009
I’m sure I’m late to this party…but what the heck, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 700m) and it’s great! The laptop, which was a nifty little machine 4 years ago (12″ screen, 2Gig proc, 1Gig RAM) was so slow it was useless – I mean, it took 30 seconds [...]
The Kindle = 1984
July 18, 2009
So, I guess there are still some advantages to owning a physical copy of a book. Like for example the person who sold it to you can’t erase it (or edit it, I suppose) without asking. Because their publisher asked them to, Amazon has erased all copies of George Orwell books from the Kindle. How…Orwellian. [...]