All Work & Play I'm flying to California tonight. I'll be attending a Mac OS X Java kitchen at Apple on Thursday and Friday. I'll also be spending all of nex…

CD-RW My SCSI-based LaCie CD-R Recorder is out of commission. I've been looking around for a Firewire based CD-RW drive. So far, I like LaCie's new 16x10x40….

February 3, 1976 An Open Letter to Hobbyists To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and sof…

Dumb mofo "If you really want to know what's going on in the world, you tap your query into a search engine. And what better engine than Google. Our simple q…

Java Editor I've been using a combination of BBEdit, TextPad and VIM for a few years now. My heroic trio does not really excel with Java code, but I've yet t…

On our way from the theater yesterday nite, Vicki asked me what my thoughts were on the percentage of politicians kids who actually do drugs. The question ma…

Mac OS 9.1 details available, due Tuesday. A new nanokernel, new process manager, FireWire 2.7, a new version of OpenGL, a Mac OS-X compatible startup disk c…