The following review provides an overview of my recent vacation in the western American states of Idaho, Wyoming and Utah with my trusty Apple iBook. December 19, 2001 While running around the house in a frenzy of last minute packing,[…]
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Snail Mail Submissions to Nuketown: Don’t Do It!
An update about Nuketown’s “no snail mail” policy for fiction and non-fiction submissions.
Read moreWake Up and Smell the Future, Redux
For some reason last month several readers responded to an editorial I wrote this time last year called “Wake Up And Smell The Future!” One asked if my demands for a high-tech future was a little too materialistic — focused[…]
Read moreMac OS X Revisited
I’ve been using Mac OS X for about three months straight now, long enough to have experienced the extremes of Apple’s next generation operating system. I’m running the 10.1 release on my dual USB iBook (the second generation, white-colored low-end[…]
Read moreAren’t you a little old for that?
My 30th birthday is coming up on the 17th, and that means that I’ll probably be hearing the inevitable question. “Aren’t you a little old for that?” I’ve got a closet full of Dungeons & Dragons books and other role-playing[…]
Read moreNuketown’s Hiatus Ends
Nuketown’s long hiatus is over. Originally, the hiatus was supposed to end in September, and did in a way. After the attacks of September 11, I focused on writing about the attacks, and pretty much ignored the nuts and bolts of[…]
Read moreWinning converts with Apple’s iBook
A review of Apple’s new iBook laptop computer, as well as a few observations on its OS X operating system.
Read moreOS X.1, Wired’s X-Box feature, Yahoo’s Lord of the Rings and Speedier Macs
OS 10.1 I got this crucial upgrade to Apple’s Macintosh Operating System 10 in mid-October. This is the upgrade that made OS X ready for prime-time, including all sorts of performance enhancing tweaks like faster window-re-sizing, better driver support, a[…]
Read moreWired, A Harsh Mistresses, Mercury Rising, and Panamanian Tailors
The Nuff’s Inbox (Nuff stands for “Nuketown Founding Father”, otherwise known as me) is a new feature I’m adding to serve as a sort of catch-all for all the miscellaneous stuff that crosses my desk, but doesn’t make it into[…]
Read moreIn Defense of Liberty
A terrible tragedy befell America on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Let’s not make it worse by stripping away the freedoms that make this country great in a vain effort to achieve security.
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