Google announced its music store, Google Music, in November 2011. It is similar to the iTunes store, except it also allows you to stream your purchased music online and even upload your own music to stream as well (like Amazon Cloud Player). At the time I wasn’t interested because the pricing was similar to the …
New Web Server
One of the consequences of Sally getting a new Mac is that her old Mac is now available. While it may be six years old, it's still newer and faster than the PowerBook G4 that I've been using as a web server. It has about 3x the processing power, twice the memory, more storage, and …
The "New" iPad
After months of rumors and speculation, Apple announced the iPad 3, formally referred to as "The New iPad", to the world. Most of the functionality had been rumored previously, which makes the update somehow boring and unimpressive to many technology pundits who have absolutely terrible track records predicting anything that Apple does. The new iPad is …
My 100th Post & Sally's New Computer
What better way to celebrate my 100th post (that's 100 posts in the two years since I switched to WordPress ~ 4 posts a month) than to announce the purchase of Sally's new computer, an "Early 2011" 13" MacBook Pro! It took a lot of convincing but I finally wore her down with specs, comparisons, …
Tax Season
We love tax season. Common myth would have us believe that nobody likes to fill out their taxes and nobody does it until the last minute. That may be true for some people – maybe they have complex finances that take a lot of effort to file, maybe they owe, or maybe they just hate filling out …
Mac Museum Latest Additions
PowerBook 540c & Accessories The PowerBook 5oo series was released in 1994 to replace the 100 series introduced in 1991. It was the first redesign of the PowerBook since the introduction of the Duo line in 1992. The series consisted of two models – the 520 and 540. Each included a Motorola 68040 processor (think …
eBay Deal of the Week: Macintosh HDI-20 External Floppy Drive
I just scored a great deal on eBay. The item is a Macintosh HDI-20 external floppy disk drive from 1991. It was originally released for the PowerBook 100 which did not include an internal floppy drive but was revived a couple of years later for the PowerBook Duo series of notebooks that also did not …
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Finally Getting Better
Boy, it's been an interesting month. My coworkers weren't lying when they said that I'd be sick all the time once I had children. Geeze. Between the four of us I think we've been sick since late December. I've been sick, Sally's been sick, Adam's been sick, and Zach's been sick. We've been passing things …
A Second Chance on eBay
eBay has a concept called a Second Chance Offer. It's something that I'd never heard of before until this weekend. Here's how it works. Two people bid on an item. Person A wins the auction over person B. Person A either doesn't pay the seller or decides that they no longer want to purchase the …
Taming Twins: Vegetables & Textures
The boys have been eating solid foods for a little over three months now. They started out simple with pureed vegetables and fruits and slowly worked their way up to table foods. We did things "correctly" and introduced them to vegetables first and fruits second, adding a new food every 3-4 days. Once we exhausted …
Relatively Ambitious 