Battery life has always been important for laptop users. In recent years it has become increasingly important as devices like the iPad have set even higher expectations for battery life. Laptops have been trying to catch up and have been steadily improving. Ultrabooks like the MacBook Air trade features and performance for size while also …
Taming Twins: It Talks
It's amazing to watch children learn and grow, particularly in the area of speech. What starts out as grunts and blabbering turns into a couple of repeated words here and there, slowly becomes short simple phrases, buds into short observatory sentences, and then explodes into full-out conversation. Having twins provides a unique perspective on language …
iOS 7 Beta 2
Apple dropped beta 2 of iOS 7 last Monday, just two weeks after the WWDC keynote, setting the precedent for a two week pace that was unheard of in previous beta releases. The Internet and its “sources” say that this two week schedule is indeed going to stick around for the foreseeable future as the …
Ireland!
I'm going to Ireland next month, isn't that fun?! I'm leaving from Boston on Sunday July 21st at 6:30 PM and arriving in Dublin at around 5 AM. The five hour time difference will generously eat away my entire night of sleep:) I'll take a one hour bus ride to Belfast where Liberty has an …
iOS 7
The big announcement at Apple's 2013 World Wide Developer Conference was the brand new iOS 7, whose look and feel are the largest changes to the iOS since the original iPhone was released in 2007. Apple has a great page about it http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/ with a lot of screenshots, videos, and explanations of the features. iOS 7 …
Parent's Vacation 2013
We love the boys to death but sometimes you just need some time to yourself. They can do a lot more with us now than they could in the past but there are still some things that are easier to do without the kiddos around. That's why we took this week off but decided to …
Mac Museum at Work
I spend a lot of time collecting and organizing things for the Mac Museum but rarely get to actually enjoy the things that are in it. This panorama is a rare instance where I had a chance to do that. From left to right there is a Power Mac 6100/66 (circa 1995) with a 14" …
Taming Twins: The Maypril Update
April showers bring May flowers, right? Well at least they brought some nice weather that lets us finally get outside. We've finally been able get out of the house, clean up the yard, and give the boys something new to do. They love to play in the sand, walk around the yard, and visit the …
Ants!
F*cking ANTS!!! The damn things come back every season! We usually get medium-sized carpenter ants at the beginning of the season in the dining room. Those started showing up a couple of months ago until I sprayed the dining room and hadn't seen one since... until today. Today is different though. They aren't in the …
Dead Washer No More
Well our new washing machine arrived today, bright and early at 7:30 AM. It probably took about 45 minutes for the delivery men to get our old machine out of the basement (barely) and get the new one set up. I had to displace about half of the Mac Museum so that they could get …
Relatively Ambitious 