Archive for the 'General' Category

Dropbox: up to 5gb more space free

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

We love dropbox. I think we have it on every device that supports it. Now Dropbox is offering up to 5gb more space for those who help BETA test the new “automatic camera import” feature. Head over to the beta forums to get details, then grab the latest version here. (via Engadget)

Kim’s New Wristwatch

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

I’m a tiny bit of a wristwatch fan, and I have a couple of decent watches. This has made Kim a little unhappy, and not just because it’s one more thing I can collect (though that’s an issue too). It’s that there doesn’t seem to be much selection of “cool” watches for women. By “cool”, [...]

Boxer & Pro Pinball: Big Race

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

I’ve been getting some older games working again courtesy of Boxer. Boxer allows modern Macs to run games from the DOS era with a minimum of fuss. I happen to have a few programs left over from that era since some mac games included the DOS versions, and some I just bought for my (infrequent) [...]

the “Riot Act”

Monday, December 12th, 2011

With all the evictions of the Occupy movement lately, I was thinking about the Riot Act. While I have occasionally been “read the Riot Act”, I had never actually read the Riot Act. To wit: Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart [...]