If you want to know who’s who in the Mac-oriented internet, look no further. Results from Low End Mac‘s Best of the Mac Web survey are in. As the Apple Turns receives a very respectable fifth place. Not bad when you consider that thanks to a baby-induced hiatus, they’d only been broadcasting for a quarter of the time the survey covered. Check ’em out!
Month: October 2002
Taking the car into the shop today
So I’m taking the Altima into the shop this morning. Swift Auto, to be precise — the same folks who looked over my car before I decided to purchase it. Simon’s going to drive me back. I’m going to get them to call me with an estimate before they do any work on the “timing pulley” issue — it could get expensive. So expensive, in fact, I’m going to get them to look at it before anything else. It might not be worth it to fix the rest of the car if that costs too much!
Also, the rest of the costs are fairly straightforward:
New things about the car that I’ve discovered need repair since I bought it: the driver’s side lock does not unlock from outside; windshield washer fluid resevoir has a crack in it (any fluid you put in it leaks straight out); and of course the muffler disconnection problem I obtained 10 days ago while driving down Tuttle Ave to play Ultimate. For the muffler, the plan is to get a muffler specialist to look at it.
Barelaked Nadies
Girlrepair is back online
Hello, faithful viewers,
One of my favorite blogs, Girlrepair is back up! You can always get to it by clicking on the Jim link over there on the right-hand sidebar. You click link now!
Pogue lambastes MS
Speaking of ethics, David Pogue of the NY Times just wrote an article about MS’s botched switch ad.
Also, here’s a bit of satire, from Slashdot.org, relating to the text of Microsoft’s pulled switch ad (click for a larger image):
The MS ad, I might add, is no longer in Google’s cache (can you say “big horde of MS lawyers attacking Google” 10 times really fast?), but the always-great Mac vendor Other World Computing has meticulously preserved it here).
These guys should be locked away
ethics, or lack thereof. Be sure not to miss the subject line in the title bar.
Caption me
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| photo DJ Spy Guy |
This picture was taken just about a year ago at Victoria’s “One Lounge”.
That’s Pete Tong from BBC Radio 1 in the background.
I mean, how old do I look?!
Guess what? I want a digital camera again. Simon presented me with a few good arguments — paying $200 for a scanner is a pretty hefty investment for something that’s mostly going to be used just to scan photos. “That’s half a digital camera!”, he said, “rounding up and stuff”.
The Apple Store in Tampa called me this afternoon to let me know the scanner I wanted had arrived. I’ll have to let them know I don’t want it anymore.
Anyway, the Sony Cybershot DSC-F717 looks pretty nice. Maybe if I have any money left over after fixing the timing belt on my car. 🙂
Tomorrow, I’m going on the longest road trip ever (a.k.a. “the Sarasota to Gainesville and back again” trip). Jeff & I are going up with Mike and his wife Carrie for a football game. Mike’s a big college football fan and invited me along. Should be interesting. Jeff’s a big techno/electronic music fan, so even if the game is lame, I’m guaranteed six hours of rockin ch00ns!
Oh yeah, today, Ron, the guy who hired me – said he thought I was 23. He was pretty shocked when I told him I wasn’t.
My desk, at work
Simon-the-digicam-terrorist snuck up on me yesterday with his Sony DSC-P7…
Ok, this is just too funny
Must be read to be believed. Microsoft tried to produce its own “Switch” ad (after the style of Apple’s highly sucessful campaign), and then pulled it due to the fact that IT SUCKED. Google still has it in cache. For now.
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