Author Archives: brad

Apparently, Ben didn’t know that marijuana is the “Gateway” drug. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

MSNBC: U.S. officials denounced the opposition to helping Turkey as deeply disappointing and promised that U.S. war plans would go ahead.

For Japanese pizza, sale click here — in case you want to lose your appetite in a hurry.

The new site is up! Yeeha! Of course, if you’re reading this, you already know.

Hmmm. New domain is up. Commenting system seems to be working. The only thing missing is Bill.

Looks like Opera is going down swinging. Kind of pathetic.

I’m not defending Microsoft here, but with Opera’s recent “ultimatum” to Apple, this just doesn’t make the company look good.

Not to sound like a brash techie or anything, for sale but this guy just needs to suck it up a little bit. Nobody likes a whiner. Ten bucks says that after his IT guys read this article, he has “funny email problems.”

Weirdest thing happened with Scooby, my PowerBook, yesterday. I lost all audio. iTunes wouldn’t even start playing a track. I figured I’d restart at the end of day to see if that fixed it, but as I was getting ready to do so, I pulled the plug out of the speaker jack (I have Scooby plugged into a nice Harman/Kardan system). All of a sudden, not only did the sound come back, but it played all the sounds it skipped during the day, like they were stuck in some sort of buffer. Weird.

Today I had to reset the power manager, because I’ve had it with the weird sleep problems with this machine. Hopefully this will fix it. If not, time for a clean install of Jaguar, unless 10.2.4 comes out and fixes my problems by some chance.

If you ever have to reset the power manager on a PowerBook G4 (DVI and later models), take the keyboard off. The reset switch is under the keyboard, in the upper left hand corner.

Wow! I just installed Youpi Key, a free piece of software for Mac OS X. Very cool! Reminds me of QuicKeys from “back in the day” (you know, 1993; holy crap, I’ve been using Macs for more than a decade; I feel old all of a sudden).

Oh, and check out my church’s new website if you get a chance.

The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm, from Berkeley. Scary stuff. Propagation speed was Sapphire’s novel feature: in the first minute, the infected population doubled in size every 8.5 (±1) seconds. The worm achieved its full scanning rate (over 55 million scans per second) after approximately three minutes, after which the rate of growth slowed down somewhat because significant portions of the network did not have enough bandwidth to allow it to operate unhindered. Most vulnerable machines were infected within 10-minutes of the worm’s release.

Bill says hi.

If you are a classroom teacher and you have a Mac, this offer is too good to pass up. Seriously. Apple is making some great moves in education right now.

Speaking of Apple, InfoWorld has named the “Apple Platform” as one of the Top Ten Technologies of 2002: The Mac platform is taking shape as one that users and developers outside Apple’s established niche markets can embrace.