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This is part 1 of a multi-part post on my battle to get an iPhone for myself and a Blackberry Pearl Flip for my wife from Roger’s wireless. At the time of this writing, the saga is still on-going so I cannot say how many episodes there will be… One of the many cool things [...]

Well, I have been working and living with a MacBook Pro for a few weeks now and I have to say I’m liking it a lot more than I had thought I would. I am starting to get the hang of how everything works and I am very happy about just how similar things are [...]

On Friday I got my first taste of what it will be like working at VendAsta. I went there Friday afternoon to pick up my laptop – a MacBook Pro which I am using to write this. I have never worked with Macs before, so this is a somewhat novel experience. The shock to my [...]

Now, I don’t know if you have come across this, but Windows Vista has an upper limit on the number of files that its Explorer can copy in a single operation. I am in the process of moving a bunch of files off of one of my Linux servers – in preparation for some reload-y [...]

It was announced this week that my webhost, DreamHost has gone Carbon Neutral. Yep, they’ve gone green which means I’ve gone green too. I encourage you to read more about what this means. For me, this is yet another reason to love DreamHost. In the past I have had the misfortune to deal, on behalf [...]

Well, I did it. I bit the bullet and installed Windows Vista on my main home computer. On first impressions, I have to say I am impressed. I was initially somewhat annoyed at the fact that there is no upgrade path from Windows XP Pro to Windows Vista Home Premium, but I was able to [...]

So Microsoft Vista has finally launched. Some people doubted it would ever launch but most of us knew that, like death and taxes, Microsoft’s next paradigm is all but inevitable. Despite all of the wishful thinking on behalf of critics, Vista will be a success for Microsoft – if you doubt this and want some [...]