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  • MacBroke Pro

    One of the responsibilities of being an “IT Professional” is supplying computer fixes for friends, employees, friends of employees, etcetera. Today’s example is a 2011 15″ MacBook Pro belonging to…

  • April Showers Bring May Blizzards

    April Showers Bring May Blizzards

    It snowed all night, so here’s how things look here in Colorado this morning… If it looks cold, that’s because it is; it’s 28 degrees outside. 🙂 Listening to “Explorers”…

  • Weather

    Yesterday it was almost 90 outside, today it is… Listening to “Girl Can’t Help It ” by Journey

  • Airport

    Airport

    Another interesting old bit of Apple tech I have laying about here at home; the Gen1 Airport Express. Before the Apple TV, if you wanted to pipe iTunes to your…

  • Sauce

    Sauce

    I’m a big fan of hot sauce and tend to put it on everything, because everything can use a bit more spice in my humble opinion. I’m also a bit…

  • WoW

    Blizzard, owned by Activision, owned by Microsoft (Microblizzavision) announced the next expansion for World of Warcraft (WoW) about two weeks ago. It piqued my curiosity… See, I more or less…

  • Breakfast

    Breakfast

    No matter how complicated life gets or how convoluted the world seems, there’s always some solace at Waffle House… Waffle Houses are interesting in that they are always there for…

  • Watch

    Watch

    I have successfully written, compiled, and executed an app on the Apple Watch… The most complicated bit was dealing with dependencies, the code signing, and granting myself permission on everything…

  • Case

    Case

    The new case for the iPhone came in today… I figured making the iPhone SE look like the Macintosh SE was oddly apropos. Listening to “Blue Morning, Blue Day” by…

  • So long, Server

    So long, Server

    After many long years, Apple has discontinued MacOS Server. I’ve been using Apple’s server product since OSX came out, I guess it would be 2001 or so, so I have…

  • Tweet

    I guess the biggest news in the universe at the moment is that the world’s richest man – Elon Musk – just purchased the world’s most problematic domain – Twitter.com.…

  • Every Day I’m Shuffling

    Every Day I’m Shuffling

    Here’s another odd bit of Apple history that you can still plug into a Mac and expect it it to still work… The original iPod Shuffle. This is my 1Gig…

  • Sign of the Times

    Sign of the Times

    The is the first time I’ve seen a bare shelf at my local Walmart… I guess I won’t be making eggs for breakfast this week. Listening to “Even Less” by…

  • Dusty

    Dusty

    The weather here in Denver was a bit windy yesterday, which stirred up a bit of a sand storm that eventually ended up in my house… Today is all about…

  • Shady

    So I got an email from a sales-drone at Amazon today stating that they had noticed my EC2 usage had increased – so they wanted to discus my usage and…

  • Empathy

    Today, when I had to go and clean out the bin on my upstairs Neato vacuum, I noticed some interesting empathy. See, my upstairs Neato is a “Botvac Connected”, and…

  • iPhone, part 2

    iPhone, part 2

    For the pure entertainment value of it, I present my original 2008 iPhone… Technically this is an iPhone 2G as it’s the 2008 16G version of the 2007 iPhone 1.…

  • In stereo where available

    My 32 year old, fifty pound, wondrously analog Denon AVC-3000 receiver finally succumbed to entropy today… I knew the end would come soon. See, the left channel had been weak…

  • Mindful

    With the return to the iPhone I’m also able to return to wearing my iWatch, which completes my iLife iSuppose. Before I could set up the watch with the new…

  • iPhone

    iPhone

    The new iPhone arrived this evening and I have it all set up… It’s pretty nice, and usable one-handed, which is a bonus. Oddly, I have to get another sim…