These aren’t the droids you’re looking for

Apple introduces new PowerBooks, but they’re G4-based. Apple’s new PowerBooks are nifty, no doubt, but so were the last batch, and it’s hard to argue that these new ones have been worth the wait. With a top of the line speed increase from 1.5-GHz to...

Sitting at the Dock of the Mac

• “Walk Away” by Kelly Clarkson is a heckuva a song. Available on iTunes even now. (As are Coldplay’s “Brothers and Sisters” and “One I Love.”) I’ve gone and downloaded that and a host of other songs thanks to a...

Words, glorious words

I’ve been speaking my mind a lot lately, and when I say speaking, I mean speaking. My vocabulary grows daily, but thus far Mom and Dad understand the following English words: Apple, cheese, up, down, please, Momma, Daddy, Papa, binky, milk, sky, school, hi, wow,...

Black (but not gold) Sunday

Today’s wipeout of an AFC Championship game left me about as disheartened as one can get. The annual refrain of most sports fans (“Wait’ll next year!”) is not much of a consolation prize when the Steelers are likely to lose Plexico Burress,...

Wastin’ away again in Margaritaville

Joe and Carol slyly themed it a “Margarita Party,” but this fooled no one and the gathered crowd—Matt, Ginger, Laura, Erin, Jonah, me, Dennis, Maria, Susan, Linda, Dave (Morrison), Eileen, and Robyn— showered them with birthday cards and wishes anyway....