Zach is crawling now! He's been prepping for it for a while – rocking back and forth, putting his hands out in front of him, and reaching – but he's been working really hard on it since a little before Christmas break. He started pushing up on his back legs while reaching until he sprawled …
Mac Museum Recent Additions
I've been busy on eBay lately picking up new additions for the Mac museum. In the past two weeks, I've purchased the following: Quadra 660AV - One of the first Macs that included video input / output to and from a TV. It also included speech recognition, high quality sound recording, and a CD-ROM drive all …
Babies
Babies are amazing. They can't speak, but they can say so much. They "don't know anything" but they know so much. They are little people. People in training. It's amazing that you can make a baby smile. It's amazing that their little face can go from crying to grinning with nothing but a smile flashed …
Taming Twins: Adventures in Mommy Mode
Adam has reached the stage that many children reach somewhere between six months and a year: Mommy mode. While in Mommy mode, the rules are simple and as follows: Be attached to Mommy at all times. If Mommy detaches, cry. If Mommy vacates the area, cry, crawl towards her. If there is an obstacle, such …
Smart eBaying
The goal for any collection of mine is to collect interesting items for the lowest cost. For the Mac Museum, I generally do this through eBay and Craigslist. Craigslist tends to be cheaper as people either a) don't understand the value of what they are selling or b) don’t care and just want to get …
The Wallstreet PowerBook G3: The Best PowerBook for the Mac Museum
The Mac Museum isn't just about collecting Apple hardware. It's about collecting Apple software and Macintosh applications as well. The idea is to preserve Macs in time as they were when they were new. Some of the Macs that I collect already contain copies of software from their era that I want to save – …
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Tears
I used to cry a lot when I was a kid. I was what you'd call "sensitive", a euphemism for a crybaby. I'd cry at the drop of a hat - if something didn't get my way, if I got a small cut or bruise, if I got frustrated, if I was told I did …
Taming Twins: Some Nights Just Aren't What You Expect
The boys are getting sick. Sally and I have both had nose and throat colds so of course the boys are going to get them. Adam is particularly bad. He's wheezy, boogery, and tired. One minute he's happy, one minute he's not. If it's not him, it's Zach. When the boys are sick nobody has …
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Macintosh External Floppy Take-Apart
When I added an original Macintosh to my collection recently I was fortunate to also get an external floppy drive with it. This is the original external floppy, model M0130, that Apple sold as a $500 accessory. Since the original Macs did not have hard drives users often had to swap disks in and out …
Why Hasn't Windows 7 Taken Off?
That is the question that was posted over on OS News today. They refer to a post written by the former Windows Phone 7 General Manger, Charlie Kindel. Kindel believes that it is because Microsoft exerts too much power over the platform. Google allows anyone anywhere to install Android on anything, for free. The only …
Relatively Ambitious 