I don’t know what it is about cartoonists, but somehow they have an uncanny ability to break through all the craziness of our world, find the core, and then present it in a way that makes everyone go “Oh yeah!” The good folks at the Joy of Tech have done this a number of times before, and while I don’t point out every awesome comic that they produce (because it would be occupying too many posts on my blog), one of their latest, Signs You May Need to Get a Life, essentially verifies many of my thoughts about our internet age. Having a Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube may be okay, but there are people who take it to the extreme, and I think that this comic really addresses the central issue behind it: they really need to get a life. Get out of Second Life and pay more attention to your first one!

Anyway, high five to the Joy of Tech folks on this one.

Tags: comic, internet, Joy of Tech, life, thoughts, Web 2.0

Whew! The month of March is over! On the one hand, I feel as though it’s gone by quite quickly, while on the other hand, I’m busy marveling at just how much stuff happened this past month, and just how busy I have been. As this exhaustive Best Of will show, I’ve been quite busy.
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Tags: Best Of, life, March, Podcasts, Spring Break, tests

Today is Friday, October 26th, THE day of Leopard! 130 weeks have passed since the day that Tiger hit the streets, and at 6:00 PM tonight, the middle digit of the current stable version of the Mac operating system will officially increase by one for the first time in two and a half years.

Some people have asked me about my Tiger-to-Leopard series this week, asking me why on earth I would take so much time collecting a bunch of facts from the last two and a half years. Do I have too much free time? (Believe me, the answer to that is a solid NO.) Am I just interested in bashing Apple because they delayed their Leopard release to October? Not really. What I really wanted to do was to capture the essence of just how fast our world changes today, and to highlight just how much things have changed in the last two and a half years to put the distance between Tiger and Leopard into perspective. When Tiger was released, not only did it contain the most updates of any OS X release to that date, it had been the first release to take a full year and a half to go public. Leopard has now trumped Tiger with over 300 new features and two and a half years until release, and so I think that it’s interesting to look at that. The reason that I’ve split it up into a five-day series this week is because I ended up having too many ideas to fill just one post.

Anyway, today, I want to culminate this series by looking back on my personal life. This may be the part of this blog series that you are either the least or the most interested in, but not only has a lot happened in the world (see the earlier four posts), but a lot has happened in my life as well, and here are some of the highlights from the last two and a half years.
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Tags: article, life, Mac OS X Leopard, Personal, School, Tiger-to-Leopard