Under a Gibbous Moon

I’m pretty much on the fence with netbooks. On one hand, for the money that you pay, you get a tiny screen and fairly anemic performance. On the other hand you get a highly portable computer that has exceptional battery life. On certainty that I do have is that netbooks have increased the resale value of used notebooks.

It used to be that used computers were worth close to nothing. This is, of course, because technology advances so quickly that unless you plan on selling your computer within a few months after purchase, the cost of new one will net you a better cost to performance ratio than a used one.

Netbooks have upset that, though. Not everyone buys a netbooks simply because it is tiny or that they can use it in a Starbucks for ten hours straight. Some people look at them and see them simply as affordable computers. Enter used laptops.

Unless your laptop is so old that its battery has to be worn on your back, then it specs out better than all but the most top of the line netbook and all with much larger screen. So for all of you with two, three, or even four year old laptops collecting dust in a closet somewhere, you might actually be able to get some money out of it.

I think that most people understand these days that Steve Jobs is dictatorial tyrant who wishes to decide what you can and can’t do with your technology and has a vast army of shock troops willing to enforce his whims with flamer wars of unimaginable destruction.

Back in April, when Steve Jobs was asked about Apple’s draconian content control policy he replied that if you want pornography you can just go buy and Android phone. It seems he was right…

Here is a bit of advice for those of you in the business world or graduates sending out resumes for that job you want. The letters “t” and “g” are close to each other on the keyboard. Way, way too close to each other. For this reason, I will never close a work-related e-mail with “regards” again.

It’s been almost a year since Geocities went dark. Now, for all of you who miss that tacky goodness, you can convert the web page of your choice into the artistic meme that was Geocities.

Here’s mine.

WARNING: May Be Hazardous to Vision and/or Sanity

I’m not a big fan of Apple. They make some good (if over priced products). The problem I have with them is their obsessive control over pretty much everything. Apple isn’t so much a product as it is a lifestyle. Hell, even one of their magazine is called the Cult of Mac. At the head of that cult sits a man named Steve Jobs who is brilliant and could teach Howard Hughes a thing or two about being crazy.

In Apples latest attempt at world domination, they have an editor over at Gizmodo house raided (because of the leaked new iPhone) by the police after he returns the phone to Apple. I guess that they were afraid he had quickly cobbled together a duplicate before he returned it. Anyway, I could go on all day about it, but I won’t because Jon Stewart is funnier.