Archive for the 'macnuttery' Category

Ginza Apple Store

« 5 November 2003 | 12:47 | Japan, geekery, macnuttery, scitech | 4 Comments »

Been a bit quiet lately due to a few late nights socializing and a bit of geekery. Panther is now officially on my home machine, and my notebook is noticebly faster. Soon it will be time to get a G5, maybe even walk home with it instead of having it shipped. I’m [...]

Panther at work

« 31 October 2003 | 15:59 | geekery, macnuttery, sonystyle | No Comments »

So I got around to installing Panther on a PowerBook G4 for work. I was given a Sony SR series laptop which has all my document data, and I thought I would copy them over to the new machine (yes, all 1.6GB of it). Turns out, Panther can read NTFS partitions, but there [...]

Flavor of the month: Apple Pepsi

« 20 October 2003 | 9:31 | biznomics, geekery, macnuttery | No Comments »

Apple and Pepsi are doing a little promotion. So smart. Single songs as prize material.
Update: Mercury News has a short article on the ironic affair.

Sun, my old coding playground

« 14 October 2003 | 11:01 | geekery, macnuttery, scitech | No Comments »

Much news out there these days about Sun Microsystem’s future, especially since Joy’s departure. I’ve heard a few theories about it, both from the “inside” and “outside”. I’ll have to see what kind of writing Bill Joy produces after he’s mulled the effects of his other manifesto. It’s sad to see this [...]

Places I would live

« 9 October 2003 | 13:07 | design, diary, macnuttery, tokyo life | No Comments »

Any building by these guys. They’re also doing the Tokyo Apple Store in Ginza. My dream complex will be done by them :)

Is Design King?

« 9 October 2003 | 8:41 | Japan, design, macnuttery, salaryman, sonystyle, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

Short blogging hiatus due to a server move; things should be up and running now though. What I missed posting about:
William Gurley writes about a “digital hand” in reference to Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”. This has been an incredible nuisance challenge for Sony, but I think if Apple is any proof, a strong [...]

Doing Apple %0.001 favor

« 4 September 2003 | 12:19 | geekery, macnuttery | 1 Comment »

Yay, and yay, and part in thanks to my sister, who just picked up the 12″ G4 Powerbook for her start at BU. It’s a good experience for me too, in fact, as Microsoft’s grasp becomes clearly evident in her struggle to learn OS X’s new interface. Keep those questions coming, Mel. [...]

iSight, uSight, we-all-Sight

« 19 July 2003 | 19:29 | geekery, macnuttery, media, tokyo life | No Comments »

Well, after Joi Ito’s experience with Apple’s new iSight, I jumped on the bandwagon and got my own. Setting up a broadcast server was a piece of cake thanks to Jim O’Connell’s posting. As much as I’d like to show the whole world my room, I think for now I’ll keep it to [...]

Better safe than sorry

« 15 July 2003 | 23:35 | geekery, macnuttery, scitech | 5 Comments »

After some crazy clanking sounds and more than a few hangs by my once-trusty PowerBook, I decided to do a bit of surgery and replaced the hard drive. The original drive is an IBM 60GB Travelstar (which is incidentally 12.5mm), but I replaced it with a Toshiba 40GB 9.5mm which I picked up on [...]