I was talking to my veterinarian friend about careers and she said something interesting. She and many of her vet school friends would often fantasize about becoming seriously ill or getting into bad car accidents.
“Why?” I asked.
“Because then we’d have an acceptable reason to be able to take a few days off.”
Apparently some of her [...]
The new getting discovered on the radio is getting discovered on an Apple ad.
Someday your hard drive will die. You need a backup strategy that’s bulletproof and easy.
Please note that while I will be talking about Mac OS X backup methods, the overall strategy applies to other operating systems too.
Live your life on one laptop hard drive volume. When your iTunes library lives on one external hard drive, [...]
The Black Swan (2007)
The Long Tail (2004)
The Tipping Point (2000)
Creative Destruction (1942)
The Invisible Hand (1776)
Government cannot create genuine spending power; the most it can do is to transfer it from Smith to Jones. If the Treasury sends a stimulus check to Jones, the money comes from taxes, from borrowing, or is newly created.
The hardest problems to cope with are those you blame on other people.
I had Vonage VOIP phone service for over a year. I was really happy with it. The Vonage web interface was usable and offered great free features like the forwarding of voicemail MP3s to my email.
I only needed Vonage because I didn’t get cell reception at home, and now I’m moving. Fewer bills and fewer [...]
I was running out of room on my hard drive, so it was time to upgrade with a Hitachi 250GB 5400RPM SATA drive from OWC ($150 at the time of this writing). I thought about going for a 200GB 7200RPM drive, but the higher data density of a 250GB drive means the performance difference of [...]