From the “What the Hell?”
From the “What the Hell?” Department: Apparently Cobalt Networks is taking Apple to court over a square box. Cobalt says the new Apple PowerMac G4 Cube (a PowerMac G4 in a small, cube-shaped case) is a knock-off the Cobalt Qube (a Linux server in a small, cube-shaped case) which has been around since 1998, two years more than the Apple PowerMac G4 Cube.
Excuse me? Doesn’t anybody on the planet but me remember a computer that came out in 1988 (a full ten years before the Cobalt Qube) called the NeXT Cube? Who was it who was running NeXT Computers back then? Oh yeah….Steve Jobs.
Jobs ought to be suing Cobalt.
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One of those days where
One of those days where I went through the entire day without coming across anything significantly new, useful, or interesting on the web. Actually, I spent most of the afternoon playing with Flash which I had never taken the time to learn before. I have no real use for it, other than sometimes my clients ask about it.
Other things of note today:
- Tonight marks the debut of Monday Night Football, with Dan Fouts and Dennis Miller (yeah, that Dennis Miller) replacing Boomer Esiason. Everyone’s been second-guessing the decision to put Dennis Miller in the booth along with Fouts and Al Michaels. So far tonight he hasn’t thoroughly embarrassed himself, but you know what? Dan Fouts is funnier. But who cares…it’s finally football season.
- I slept really fitfully last night. (Too much pizza before I went to bed, probably), and dreamed of my grandmother for the first time since she passed away. I just now realized that she passed away exactly a year ago yesterday. Too weird.
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What would you do with
What would you do with a junk mail check for $95,093.35? How about depositing it . . .
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From CamWorld: the real history
From CamWorld: the real history of AOL. What I find most fascinating about this is AOL is a direct descendent of a “pre-CD era” company called Digital Music. Digital Music’s business plan: download digital music to your tape recorder (remember this is before audio CDs!) through your cable TV connection.
Sounds familiar, eh?
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So this morning, after getting
So this morning, after getting this blog running again (hours spent under the hood, greasy fingernails, dropped the transmission on my toe, etc.), I chugged up to Bethesda for breakfast at the Tastee Diner (beware the cheesy MIDI of “The Entertainer” on that page) with my buddy who’s the restaurant critic for Washington CityPaper.
The Tastee Diner is probably the most sublime diner I have encountered, though my friends criticize me for preferring the newer (40-year old) Bethesda, MD, spot over the original 65-year old location in Silver Springs, MD — which, incidentally, is being picked up and moved across the street to make way for the new offices of the Discovery Channel. Second on my list of Sublime Diners would be the Third Street Diner in Richmond, VA. Two great things about Third Street: it never closes (which isn’t rare for diners, but is rare in Richmond), and all — and I do mean ALL — the waitresses are hot, tattoed, pierced, scantily-clad art students (which, again, probably isn’t rare for diners, but is rare in Richmond). Thinking about it, most of Third Street’s charm is probably a result of there being nothing else like it in Richmond.
After breakfast, we swung by Gateway Country because my friend needs to get rid of his 133 MHz dinosaur and doesn’t know computers from compote. It was a lot of fun to see how little the sales guy at Gateway Country actually knew about computers. At least I know that if I ever lose my job I can always be the smartest salesperson at Gateway Country. When I get back, I find an email in my box about designer computers. I think I’ll make my buddy buy one of those instead.
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I can’t stop laughing. Someone
I can’t stop laughing. Someone should give these guys a TV show.
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All right! I’m coming through
All right! I’m coming through live again.
Hmm. Don’t know what the problem was, but wait a week and it goes away. Just like hemorrhoids.
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Another test. See if the
Another test. See if the blogs are getting through now a week later.
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test one two. my blogs
test one two. my blogs aren’t getting through. still not getting through.
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