Posted by: Nic on: 08.27.2009
Oh allergies. Why must you ruin my Thursday? My Time Machine backup drive died suddenly last week. I don’t know if it was age (two years) or the heat, but it just stopped working in the middle of the day, and wouldn’t come back on. I got a 1.5 TB drive (Newegg’s having a sale [...]
Posted by: Nic on: 02.27.2009
I was thinking of Neil LaBute the other day, and then last night I saw a poster for Reasons to be Pretty, his new play. I was like, SCORE! The poster had the following URL on it: http://www.doesthisplaymakemelookfat.com. I went to the web site today using Firefox, which I recently made my default browser. The [...]
Posted by: Nic on: 02.06.2009
I deleted the Windows 7 partition on my Macbook because I found it annoying and almost never actually used it. Plus, it slowed my boot time to an unmanageable minute, from a previous low of about 12-15 seconds. Unacceptable. I thought that it would be kind of a tedious process, but the whole thing took [...]
Reading really is fundamental. I saw a post on Lifehacker about Syncplicity finally opening their beta to Mac users, and so, having never heard of this software, I read on. The post mentioned something about file sharing, and I was intrigued. I don’t really do the whole file-sharing thing anymore, and I think a lot [...]
Posted by: Nic on: 01.12.2009
I dual-booted OS X and Windows 7, just to see if I could. Windows 7 is pretty interesting so far, but I finished the install and played with the whole setup for about 20 minutes before I had to go to bed. Will explore more later.
