Year: 2003

Take a Byte

A new 15″ G4 PowerBook plus an iPod equals not much time to blog tonight, but it is worth noting that almost 20 years after the Mac came out I’m finally making the … Read more

Word Pirates

Here’s an interesting web site, Word Pirates, a grassroots effort to take back words whose original meaning have been shamelessly misappropriated by politicians and advertisers and other of their ilk. Here’s one example … Read more

Let Me See That Again

Antipixel made an observation about how he crops digital images much more often than he does film based photos. I tend to crop more since I’ve gone digital; I had ascribed it to … Read more

Good Fish, Bad Fish

In recent years the word has been getting out that certain species of fish are being over-harvested and as such should be avoided by the dining and fish buying public. In the words … Read more

The Man in Black

Funny thing is, when I stop and think about when and where I grew up, I must have heard Johnny Cash before even the Beatles! He is certainly one of the few musicians … Read more

Final Thoughts on 9/11

I think this is a day every patriotic American holds sacred to some degree. A solemn day, recalling the events of two years ago and also a bit of a fearful day, wondering … Read more

Stop the Presses

[Washington] The surprise resignation of the forty-third President of the United States, George W. Bush, on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, was hailed by chiefs of state throughout the … Read more