Archive for October, 2007

Leopard’s Blue Screen of Death icon for shared PCs

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Everyone thought it was anĀ inside joke in the beta, but after installing Leopard yesterday (yes, I actually bought it), I was pleased to see that the BSOD icon for shared Windows machines on the network is still in the gold master. I can’t believe they left it in, but I love Apple even more for […]

Rash of misinformation in wake of OiNK raid

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

In the wake of the raid and shutdown of the 180,000+ member music and application sharing community OiNK.cd, numerous (old) media outlets (starting with an original article from Reuters) have taken it upon themselves to report that OiNK was a paysite - that is, that it required members to pay to join or keep their […]

The worst job for the 21st century…

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Sounds about right. And it was the first one in the slideshow, too. Bonus points for the hilarious euphemism “irregular hours.”
Courtesy of that wonderful old media outlet Forbes.
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Bourbon Street aftermath

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Apparently in New Orleans, “large” doesn’t mean “in a tall glass” but instead “three times the booze.”
Lesson: Don’t blindly hand the bartender a large bill when you pay for your drinks.
 
Oh well, the drink was worth it. So was the Hand Grenade, a melon-flavored concoction dreamt up by the people at Tropical Isle. The […]

God save the King of New Orleans

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Yesterday I wrote about how I was leaving on a jet plane for beautiful New Orleans. After a slightly-delayed flight out of O’Hare (though I did manage to avoid the dreaded SSSS), my plane pulled on to the tarmac this afternoon and I was back in the Big Easy for the first time in 6 […]