Matt & Jen Simerson

There’s nothing like being away from home for most of the summer to make one realize just how much junk mail is arriving. We get at least one credit card offer a day and 3 morgtage protection insurance offers a week on top of local ad mailers (which are at least somewhat relevant). Today I [...]

Ouch. After a small rash of their laptops catching fire, Dell is replacing 4.1 million batteries. Better make sure yours is not on the list! https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/

I have used Parallels Desktop on my 20″ iMac since well before it was released, including most of the public beta versions. When they offered it for sale, I bought it without hesitation. In short, the software is much better than one would expect for the price.
One thing I must note about Parallels. Do not [...]

Explain why a Macintosh pull-down menu can be accessed at least five times faster than a typical Windows pull-down menu. For extra credit, suggest at least two reasons why Microsoft made such an apparently stupid decision.
I ran across this question on AskTog and finally know the answer. It’s one of those things I have known [...]

I added a Texas joke to my humor section.
http://matt.simerson.net/humor/texas.shtml

“If you had only a few minutes to live, what would you do with them? What if you had only a few days? Twenty years?”
From The Big Questions by Robert C. Solomon, pg 30.
If you enjoy thinking, this is already quite a good book.