Even better than Macintel, I am enjoying the new acronym ICBM— in this case meaning Intel Chip Based Mac.
Which begs the question: Is it really an acronym if you can’t actually pronounce it, or is it then just an abbreviation? If so, is there another special term for those? (rummage). Well, looks like Merriam and Webster will allow it. Acronym it is.
So, yay! —upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Expecting the minions of hell to overrun my system any time now, but for the moment, it feels good, it feels clean. I hope the spammers aren’t drawn to its scent. Colophon’s screwed up, but… Meh. I’ll fix it at some point. It’s probably not even accurate anymore.
Soon after I had plugged in my brand new MacBook Pro, it died. Sorta. Film at 11.
UPDATE
As best we can piece it together, what happened was this: Thursday morning, when I first plugged in the MagSafe connector from the power adapter, it went from green to red, not amber like I thought. I […]
My first 48 hours with the new Intel CoreDuo Mac mini have unfortunately been somewhat disappointing. Don’t get me wrong—The mini itself is great, I love Front Row, and the fact that I’ve got an optical audio out built-in instead of an Edirol box hanging off the side of the mini is amazing. (BTW, if […]
Here, I was, all ready to do a clever video tutorial on how to use Handbrake to rip video from your DVDs to your 5G iPod (aka, iPod with video), and I see there’s a clever app called iSquint that is optimized for doing just that. Except— wait. No it isn’t. You’d have to decrypt and rip the video to your hard drive first. And then, of course, there’s getting all that meta–data into the file… Hmmm…. seems like there’s call for an all-encompassing tutorial after all.
Another indispensable item. The backside of a Heinz Ketchup packet from a chinese restaurant. Can anyone translate this?
