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St. George, Utah, and its underwhelming sign on the hill. Did they lose interest mid-construction, run out of white rocks, or is it the grade the Health Department gave the local restaurants?
Curtis Jones
Fred: Before and After
Meet Fred. He doesn't do much these days beyond serving as a warning to others, but he once roamed my office. I present Fred: before and after. I'd have swept up the hairs if I'd known, and if I owned a broom.
Protocol
If you walk into a restaurant and order to-go, does protocol dictate even a small tip on the check?
Two Minutes
Two minutes to thirty, in my birth time zone anyway. And in base-16, I'm still a teenager.
Here we go again
Off to the Grand Canyon for Death March, Part 2. Last time was 23:41; armed with better water intel and properly taped heels, we're chasing sub-twenty. Update: 19:57, three minutes to spare. Glad I skipped the baby rattlesnake trophy.
iPhone OS on the Apple Tablet?
iLounge says the rumored Apple Tablet will run the iPhone OS instead of a real version of OS X. If true, that means App Store lockdown and a developer license to run your own code. Sigh. Maybe someday Apple ships a second good product after the Mac.
Time Trials
By the time I made peace with paying that much for 160GB of SSD, prices had jumped 75 percent. But the numbers don't lie: login dropped from 74 seconds to 3. One step closer to my purely solid-state desktop dream.
I love Delta and Delta loves me
A storm canceled my Atlanta flight while I sat in Charlotte grooving to Muse, blissfully unaware. Then I got paged, rebooked onto an earlier flight, and arrived on time anyway. I love Delta. Most of the time.
Business Suckage
I have a laptop full of my life's work and I want whole-disk encryption. PGP can't keep up with OS X releases, CheckPoint's site thwarts every attempt to pay them, and WinMagic won't take my gmail address. How is our economy still standing?
VPN
I spent all night trying to get Snowy Leopard's built-in Cisco IPSec VPN to talk to my new RV042 router, only to find their supported auth modes don't overlap at all. IPSecuritas, OpenVPN, Openswan: pick your poison. I'm sick of it for tonight.