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So how come I never met this guy? He lives in Florida, is an FSU fan, a Mac user, and a Halo player. I’m sure we’d get along famously.
My Orlando friends have some ’splainin to do.

A few months ago, Google announced that its Calendar app would be accessible by PDA-based web browsers. It worked like a dream. And for someone like me, a lawyer on the go, it was a great tool.
Suddenly, sometime last week or so, it just stopped working. Instead of the nice neat rows [...]

So I just went to the Apple Store to play with the demos. Some observations:

As one who loves to surf the web from anywhere on my Treo, I could get seriously enamored with the slick it’s-the-real-internet of the iPhone. Wow.
They’re flying off the shelves. This could be bigger than the iPod. [...]

Do you know the significance of this number?
13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640
It’s currently at the heart of a battle over First Amendment rights. Some think it’s hexed.

I Come Not to Praise Microsoft…
Paul Graham thinks that Microsoft is dead, and he gives four reasons why.

Widespread availability of broadband, which fueled…
The emergence of Google, which led to…
The rise of online applications and the waning importance of desktop software, coinciding with…
Apple’s rise from the grave

“No one who cares about computers uses Microsoft’s anyway.”
The last [...]

ZFS. Sounds innocuous, doesn’t it? But when Daring Fireball reported that Apple’s OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard, would include support the new file system, I had to do some poking around. Turns out that this method of storing your computer files will bring about Armageddon.
Don’t believe me? Just look:
ZFS is a [...]

Several months ago, I noted that the Florida Bar had decided to burn witches - urm, prohibit the mining of metadata.
Doing some metadata research today, I finally found the real reason the Bar acted so strongly - one of the members of the Board of Governors got suckered.
One Florida lawyer was quite upset when he [...]

Dear Google,
Sitting here in front of my laptop with browser windows open all over the place and hot-key access to all your features, I am completely and utterly smitten. No other search engine does for me what you do, from the quality of your results to the modifiers that let me customize my search [...]

I think running Windows on an Apple machine is tantamount to desecration. Andrew Kantor of USA Today thinks it’s a market-share opportunity for Microsoft. I use the word “thinks” very lightly:

But the notion put forward by some Mac folks — that Boot Camp will improve the Mac’s position in the business and gaming marketplace [...]

Oh, no. Tom’s MacBook Pro is a lemon, and the repair tools that shipped with it aren’t Intel-Book compatible.
This has got to be a real bummer for Tom, since I know how much he was looking forward to Lysander’s arrival. Things like this are inevitable with such a major shift in [...]

Apple periodically likes to pay lip service to the idea that some law firms use Macs instead of Windows-based systems. Their recent highlight of an Atlanta firm underscores why more attorneys have resisted switching:
…the firm administrator at Gaslowitz Frankel (and Adam and Michael’s sister) collects attorneys’ billable hours and, without leaving her iMac G5, [...]

How is it possible that someone like John Dvorak has been writing a nationally-published computer column for decades when he produces such totally indefensible intellectual fluff?
Will Apple Adopt Windows?
Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows—think IBM and OS/2. IBM also jumped on the Linux bandwagon over its own AIX [...]

I got my Florida Bar News yesterday and while flipping through it this morning I have discovered that the Bar’s Board of Governors has voted to condemn the practice of viewing metadata in electronic files even though it does not fully understand exactly what that means.
If you’re unfamiliar with metadata, you are not alone. Several [...]

Others have done a much better job than I could of summing up today’s news about the new Intel-based Mac hardware, so I’ll just nod vaguely in Cupertino’s direction and go about my day.
Except for this.
It’ll run Windows. We think we’re in love.
Windows. Seriously. Running Windows on an Apple machine is like going [...]

The Apple Store takes a smoke break during the Steve Jobs keynote.

For those of you who just got your first Apple product - a shiny new iPod or PowerBook - for Christmas, but aren’t yet totally familiar with all that Mac culture has to offer, let Tom tell you what this week’s MacWorld Keynote is all about. As iVangelists go, there are few finer than [...]

Having a newborn generally requires a hospital stay of at least 48 hours for basic observation. Of course, for Mommy and Daddy, cabin fever comes quickly.
For me, about the only thing preventing me from going flat-out stir crazy has been my ability to get online via my cell phone connection. Non [...]

My good friend Tom, guru of all things Apple, has left his job in the non-profit sector to set about on matters that are decidely for profit. Tom is now officially “Open For Business.”
I am available for jobs large and small at rates that are fair and affordable. My partner and [...]

When I code up a new web page, I frequently rely on the world’s largest repository of CSS reference materials - tha Intarweb. This evening I was Googling for techniques on using CSS to pin a footer at the bottom of a web page, I stumbled across the following article at, of all godforsaken [...]

Sometime last July, the Movable Type setup that powered every weblog on our various domains went belly up. All logins failed, password retrievals failed… the database appeared to be empty. But the database was still there, and still flush with all that data. Logging into the web server and running “strings” [...]