Archive for October, 2007



Lucas’ First Steps

Published on 2007/10/25

Hours after after his first birthday, Lucas took his first step. And then his second, and third.

Now he’s a veritable juggernaut. Last night he walked across the kitchen, no hands.


A hard won lesson on investing

Published on 2007/10/23

I started saving for my retirement in 1991 because my employer offered matching contributions. Matching money is free money so I saved exactly as much as they would match. Since I started at $7/hr, two percent of my check was about $6 per week. It’s a trifling amount but when I quit to found MichWeb [...]


my $0.02 on Leopard

Published on 2007/10/22

Disclosure: I own Apple stock.
I first installed Leopard in early 2007. I backed up my system and installed. Since I have a spare mac, I can tolerate a fair bit of breakage on my main system but the pre-WWDC builds of Leopard exceeded my threshold. After a few days I reverted back to 10.4.
At WWDC, [...]


site performance

Published on 2007/10/17

Dear loyal readers,
Have you perceived any performance issues when using my web site? I ask because the spiffy graphics on the right (have you clicked one lately?) inflate the size of the front page considerably.


iPhone SDK is on the way!

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http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
This is very exciting news. As I previously mentioned, we just knew this had to be coming. In the meantime, all the current iPhone hackers are doing a great job of identifying weaknesses in the current security model.


iBought an iPhone

Published on 2007/10/07

On Jan 17th, I wrote about the iPhone:
The ease of using all the devices is likely the phones most endearing feature, but I’m not in love. Yet.
And I went on to detail my reservations about the $599 iPhone.
Cons:
Painfully slow data access (EDGE).
Cingular AT&T only
No tethering (with a PDA / laptop)
Expensive.
Concerns:
SSH client
Email: multiple [...]