I've made lots of tech posts lately, so now its back to the boys. They are the cutest mannerless children around. They both walk around as if they have every right to get into every item in their environment. Look interesting? Sure, just walk up to it and take it. They randomly open doors, look …
PowerBook Through the Years: The 5300 Series
It should have been famous because it was the first PowerPC PowerBook but the 5300 was instead famous for a string of manufacturing and quality issues that gave it one of the worst reputations of any Apple product. Despite its flaws it still made improvements over its predecessor in the form of larger screens with …
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Mac Plus Resurrection
Once upon a time I purchased a working original Macintosh and Mac Plus for the Mac Museum. They came with a large device that was said to be a "modem" but didn't have a phone jack on it. After being unable to figure out how to connect this odd device to a phone line, I …
My New SSD
My next computer will be a MacBook Air, that I've already stated. When I talked about it last, I said that I'd keep using my MacBook Pro for the next couple of years and that my next upgrade would be to replace my hard drive with a much faster SSD. Well that day has come. …
Christmas 2012
Merry Christmas, the holidays are over! The big day has come and gone and it definitely felt as if our life was filled with a never-ending list of tasks and todos. We were lucky to start out the season pretty well by purchasing most of our gifts online. It made our house look like a …
Random Notes: Pre-Holiday Edition
It's been a little while since I posted about the boys. The holidays are here, works has ramped up, winter illnesses have started visiting us again, and sleeping has been a little bit more difficult. Luckily we are past most of that now so let's get to it! Not-So-Silent Nights Ever since the boys were …
Starbucks Verismo
I got a very special gift for my birthday today: a Starbucks Verismo coffee maker. The Verismo is similar to a Keurig machine in that it makes coffee by shooting pressurized hot water through a small coffee pack to make a single cup of coffee at a time. The major difference is that the Verismo …
Thoughts on Tech – Slow Surface Sales & RIM Rebounds
Surface I mentioned in my last Thoughts on Tech that I didn't think that Microsoft's Surface tablet would be a success mainly due to its use of an operating system that tries to be the jack of all trades and master of none as well as the inherent difficulty in prying people off of their …
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18 Month Update
It's that time again, here's what the boys have been up to. Had their 18 month appointment. Zach is still somewhere in the 5th percentile for height and weight even though he's been eating like a moose lately. He literally will eat all of his food and then all of the food that Adam doesn't …
PowerBook Through the Years: The 500 Series
It's been a while since I published another article in my series chronicling the history of the PowerBook, but here it is: the 500 series. Released in 1994, the 500 series used an entirely new design full of curves an innovative features such as stereo speakers, a trackpad, dual batteries, and built-in networking. It was …
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Relatively Ambitious 