Breaking 80, #4
My objective for this year is to break 80 at least once, specifically at Bloomington Downs Golf Course. Bloomington is a modest 6,000 yard par 72 course, albeit unrated. The course holds sentimental value as it was the first par…
Month March 2006
Not for the faint of heart, part #2
Yesterday I noted that “two enterprising young geeks” [1] were successful in loading and running Windows XP on an Intel-based iMac. Today, TUAW is soliciting reader’s opinions with the following results: I’m surprised at the number of people in the…
Not for the faint of heart
What is a Mac and when does it stop being a Mac? [Video of a Mac running Windows]
3.14159
Today, March 14, is Pi Day. And at 1:59, in cyberspace, a giant Pi facsimile will drop. I don’t know exactly what that really means, but as Pi is a somewhat abstract concept I’m sure that its dropping in cyberspace…
Towards an End
GIMP is an Open Source, freeware, graphics editing program. It runs under X Windows, or just “X” for short (as Grant Edwards points out “It is considered tres uncool to call it X Windows” [1]). I realized I needed X…