Archive for August, 2006



Cleaning up our mailbox

Published on 2006/08/29

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 [...]


4.1 Million house fires averted!

Published on 2006/08/16

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/


Parallels Desktop review

Published on 2006/08/14

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 [...]


User Interface

Published on 2006/08/12

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 [...]


Texas humor

Published on 2006/08/07

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


Philosophical question of the day

Published on 2006/08/06

“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.