It’s been well-reported that Apple is offering a free iPod Mini with every new Mac purchased by students before September 24th.
But only in the States.
Ouch, that hurts. I’m a university student in Canada (taking a Masters program in Educational Technology) and qualify for the educational discounts. And, I’m planning to buy an iMac G5. I’d […]

It’s sad but true: Steve Jobs is a valley girl.
Jobs, chief executive officer of both Apple Computer and Pixar Entertainment, used the ultimate valleyism “you know” not less than 19 times in his recent podcast with ABC news (transcript).
Valley girl-ese is a well-known sub-dialect of teen girls in California’s San Fernando valley that features extensive […]

Dr. Seuss blogs too … as I just found out as Teresa was reading to our son, Aidan.

He just spells it a little differently - but then again, Dr. Seuss does everything a little differently.
This is in the book The Shape of Me and Other Stuff.

The more I read instructions, the more I realize my native tendency to NOT read instructions is intuitively and definitively correct.
Check out these wireless internet access instruction cards I found in Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. With a tiny bit of editing for brevity the first reads:

How to connect
Start with your notebook computer off …
Launch your web […]

A couple of days ago David Boone came past our offices. Dave used to work in my department, and still handles all our domain purchases and management.
He’s followed a really interesting path. I hired him at 19 for a programmer’s job, which he did an amazingly good job at. Three years after that, he decided […]

It’s a little annoying, as a Canadian, to see this sort of thing …

The Flickr team has up and moved this week to Californ-i-a and has been singing Beach Boys songs non-stop since arrival. And you’re moving too!
We’re moving each and every pixel, bit, and byte, all your data, lock, stock, and barrel, from our […]

I went to check my GMail account today, and discovered something that may be old news to Google watchers: Google Accounts.

Search, of course, and email, but also shopping, news, discussions, and search history … Google is continuing the journey to full-fledged internet portal. Although, as per standard modus operandi for Google, it’s a portal on […]

I am living on the edge. A risk-taker. Occasionally, I even slip over to the wild side.
I don’t back up my computer very often.
As in, hardly ever. I think I remember doing it about 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe. Of course, that was my previous laptop.
This is what I need. I need […]

Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software and Fogbugz fame is doing a cool project with a bunch of summer interns.
He hired 4 summer interns - software developers - and told them to create a 1.0 project. Over 800 students applied for the 4 jobs. Check out the blog of the guys who made the […]

After much pain, agony, gnashing of teeth, and assorted other afflictions, Teresa (my wife) and I have finally launched our corporation: sparkplug9.
(Don’t expect to see much there at that site - the old saw about the cobbler’s children having no shoes is in full effect!)
sparkplug9 is a corporation that we set up primarily to manage […]