Archive for the 'General' Category

Bank Error in Your Favor

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Jon ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch posted a fun essay about his need to “iron out” mistakes that are made in his financial favor. I’m delighted by the analysis – especially the deduction that such corrections are ethical exercises: small quizzes that keep your everyday moral compass in shape for the inevitably bigger challenges that are bound to […]

The F-Word

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

What is the difference between FREE, Free, and free? You’ll rarely see the lower-cased version in marketing, rarely see the all-caps one in prose, and the one in the middle is downright tricky. There is such a plethora of meanings and implications associated with this common word, that it may be due the same awe-inspired […]

MBP: Customer Sensory Issues

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

This post is part of the MacBook Pro Complaints series. Instead of (or in addition to) linking directly to this post, consider linking to the series link, which includes a summary of all findings to date and direct links to the pertinent downloads that users may find useful. Thanks for reading! I was getting increasingly […]

Changing With the Times

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Hopefully nobody noticed, but over the past week I was gradually staging the site for a move to a new host. For several days now the backing databases have been running from DreamHost, and I just flipped the switch that puts the slow nameserver change propagations into motion for the complete site move-over. Chances are […]