Bob McCormick’s old article on Hot Rods of the New Millennium (from June 1999) really took me back. In my last year of high school and the first few years of college, I was a licensed NASCAR and NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) driver, and my buddies and I built sever muscle cars, a few just for racing
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Welcome To Geezer City!
There comes a time in every columnist’s life when you realize that you are indeed getting older, a time when you feel you must “vent” just like your father or grandfather did before you.
Read MoreThe Press Release Heard Around The World
Apple and HP announce a Strategic Alliance that could prove to be a blueprint for what we never thought possible again, the return of the Macintosh Clone.
Read MoreDigital Camera Dilemma SOLVED: What You REALLY Need to Know
What the fudge should a person buy, and then how to use the darn thing?
Read MoreE-Rate for Education: It Could Have Been So Simple
Under my proposal, schools would be free to spend money where they know it can be best used. The ability to buy new computers, projectors, and laser printers would do wonders for assisting in implementing technology across all curriculum areas…
Read MoreWhat’s your story?
With the twentieth anniversary of the Macintosh upon us, I felt that this would be an appropriate time to tell “my story”, of how I came to be such a fan of this computing platform. Heck, everyone has stories, right
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Pixl
Nobody is a real Mac worshipper. I hope you understand. People who ‘love’ their Macintoshes are the same kind of people who ‘love’ their BMWs or their Mexican food
Read MoreMy Family Home
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the house where I grew up. My father has lived there for forty-seven years. He bought the house and the seventeen acres it sits on in 1956 from my grandfather for seventeen thousand dollars….
Read MoreEducation On The Internet: The Paradigm Shift Isn’t Where You Think It Is
About eight years ago as the Internet began to take off futurists began predicting the great change that would take place in K-12 education in our country….
Read MoreMac Rumors, You Know You Want Them
Recently a huge Mac rumor was unleashed: McDonalds was going to give away a billion (that’s like a million but with a B) songs via iTunes. The rumor was never exactly denied but it was also never confirmed.
Read MoreMore Dead Afghan Children
BBC Link President God Bush has sacrificed more than ten, and we with him, and us with them. However, the US has warned it
Read MoreCzech it out
I’m helping a local Tucson MUGger today who is learning how to use her international keyboards on a G3 iMac running OS 9.2.2. Juana
Read MoreThem Great Hairy Actors
So many people complained that I left out the better actors when I talked about those great baldheaded actors, that I thought I should
Read MoreRumors Abound
It’s never too early to start thinking about MacWorld SF (Remember MyMac is going to have folks providing coverage). I’ve heard speculation/rumors about Apple
Read MoreOne weird feeling
Great Design: Apple gets it..Others Don’t There can be no doubt that a good measure of Apple’s post Steve Jobs return success is based
Read MoreSafari/Explorer Flaw in Panther
Have you spotted it? Unfortunately, I have, and it it too close to home to not worry about it. A few web pages in
Read MoreIndexing Jaguar as I write
Helping Morgan, another loyal TMUGger, to index his mighty 17″ iMac G4, which has never been indexed during the many months he has owned
Read MoreApple: Exclusive provider of
I just got an e-mail from a supplier stating that they were the exclusive supplier of fleece jackets made by Columbia Sportswear. Never mind
Read MoreDid you Remember to activate your Idiot Warning System?
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
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