Apple

A warning to the uninitiated, or preaching to the chior

Syncing my iPhone with two different macs produced disastrous results. It all may have worked out if I hadn’t cancelled the sync on my PowerBook prematurely (having originally done all the sync work on the iMac). Chalk number one up to the idiot user. The second issue is a serious failing on Apple’s part. NO syncing of tasks from iCal… and no native task organization tool on the iPhone AT…
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Going for BrokeKitchen Sink

Let's hear it for the mail

A few amusing things came in the mail this morning (the last week really… we haven’t been checking for a while). The first was actually a stack of things: a whole mess of “this is not a bill” from our auto insurance company. They don’t want anything from us now, they just want to remind us they’ve been billed for another ten grand from various providers, and they’ll be expecting our…
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Wellbeing

The internets strike again

Cheryl’s been off the computer for most of the last week due to the pain she’s in when sitting up. But tonight she decided to do a little research on spinal surgery, stopping by a few discussion groups along the way. Danger, Will Robinson! DANGER! Predictably, the discussions are filled with horror stories too terrible to repeat on a family web site. I told her the folks who are happy with…
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Kitchen Sink

Not stopping

I don’t get out much so I don’t know what much of America is like, but much of Florida is paved over with sub-divisions. I suppose it’s pretty similar to a lot of other places, considering it was colonized right around the same time much of America was suffering the blight that came to be known as “the post-war baby boom.” Coincidentally, Florida was largely uninhabitable until around…
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Computer

Plucked from the most recent conversation with my wife

“I’m thinking about kick-starting the home server project again.” “Why?” “I was thinking I’d serve up the web site and blog from home again.” “Why?” “Money’s a little tight and it’s another place we could save a little money.” “Why?” “What are you, two years old?” “How much money would we save?” “Somewhere between four and six dollars a month.” “And…
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