Archive for July, 2005

What color is your host?

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Now it is time for a shameless plug for my hosting provider. This and other web sites of mine are hosted by BlueHost. I have been with them for over a year and a half and I do not have any complaints. On top of having a ...

A Recent Test Drive

Monday, July 25th, 2005

My wife and I both work about 30 miles from our home. We have three cars but none of them are in very good condition and none of them get very efficient gas mileage. In fact one of them doesn't go anywhere at all since the transmission decided ...

Apple Evangelism

Monday, July 25th, 2005

It may sound silly to some that a person would gleefully proselytize about a computer system. I would have thought so myself at one point. I am glad to say though that I have been responsible for at least two of my friends seeing the light about owning ...

Ender’s Game

Monday, July 25th, 2005

I had heard from some friends that the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was good. I just finished the audiobook today and I am very impressed. It took me a while to get used to the fact that the main character and his friends are just ...

The iBook

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

I have wanted to own an Apple/Mac for a long time. The problem with that was the cost. I simply could not afford to buy a mac. The situation changed when I was offered a deal that I could not pass up (by my wife!). For nearly wholesale prices I ...