Category Archives: Macs and PCs

June 29, 2007

The essay below was originally published on February 23, 2008, a week after I had purchased my first iPhone. Since today is the 15th anniversary of the introduction of the amazing iPhone, I thought we’d update the post a bit … Continue reading

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Of Macs and Men, part deux

Back in 2011 I experienced the second of two catastrophic hard drive crashes on my late 2006 vintage iMac. I was able to replace the hard drive and it worked until some time very early this morning after 2 AM … Continue reading

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April 30, 1993

Steve Jobs created the computer that gave us the World Wide Web. CERN has given us many things in our day, most notable among them recent proof of the existence of the so-called ‘God particle’, the Higgs Boson… one of … Continue reading

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Download music, pay the artist

Three articles that underline the need to support musicians and their intellectual property. “I Never Owned Any Music To Begin With” by Emily White typifies a young person’s mistaken attitude about living in a fully digital music world. “A Perpetual … Continue reading

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Excellent customer service matters

Recently, my son stopped using the $50 Otterbox Defender case we had purchased for his iPhone 4S. He said it was too bulky. He’s a teenager, after all, and he can’t be seen with a belt clip. I started using … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

There are very few people outside of my family that I can say have had a positive effect on me. Ronald Reagan was one such man. Another of these died this evening. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple was another. … Continue reading

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The end of an era, redux

It is ironic that yesterday, the day I finally recovered all of my data and operating system files on my Mac due to my second hard drive crash four days ago, and was able to do so because of the … Continue reading

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Of Macs and Men

I love my Mac. When I bought it almost five years ago it was liberating to get away from the slavery of WinTel machines. Back then, all Windows had was XP, not the best OS they designed; that honor goes … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs at the WSJ D8 Conference

Here’s the full video at The Wall Street Journal.

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Goodbye BillG, goodbye SteveB. It’s been nice. Well, not really…

In 1984 I played around with a machine that was destined to change the world. When I first saw it I could not believe it was what it was. It was small and compact but oh, so cool. Compared to … Continue reading

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