Too cool for school! Apple JUST released the new MacBook – the Intel-based iBook replacement. And it comes in COLORS! Okay, it comes in black & white, but you gotta see the black one, it’s fab!! Weirdness: black is $200 more than white. Go figure. Weight is 5.2 pounds versus 4.9 pounds for the iBook…

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I found a new way to publish to the blog called Performancing. It works in Firefox as an extension (and works on Macs AND PCs!). Pretty neat! I wrote this entry using it.

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Cool! Not sure what it means, but cool! On a related note, and just to see how geeky you really are, try this quiz on for size. I got 31 right my first time out! What does this say about me? 31-40: As your doctor, I recommend moving out of your parents’ basement. I rule!…

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Three days, lots of information, much rushing around, information overload, exhaustion, looking forward to going home and crashing. That’s my summary of MacWorld San Francisco 2006. We’ve been up here since Monday, and have been having a great time. We saw Steve Jobs’ keynote on Tuesday and so saw the announcement of the first Intel…

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*rant on* Chuck works at home fulltime, and he makes his living on the Internet. Given that, a broadband connection isn’t a neat thing, it’s a necessity. We started out here in Long Beach with DSL through Verizon, which was okay: upload speed was around 126kbps, download speeds were better at around 500-600kbps. Now admittedly…

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I got an iDog for Christmas. It’s pretty cute, although a tad demanding. Hooked up to the iPod it periodically barks and flaps its ears in a plaintive attempt to get my attention as it listens to whatever is on the iPod. If it isn’t hooked up to the iPod then it just yips, rocks…

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