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About a week ago, I bought the newest Mac system software, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. This a pretty big update with a lot of new features and a lot of behind the scenes technological improvements. I run a pretty stock system, so I wasn’t too worried about upgrade problems but I made sure I […]

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Apple’s tech support articles are usually pretty dry, but this one is a gem.
As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4.
I haven’t laughed at a tech support article since I read the Technical Note about Clarus the Dogcow back in April 1989.

Technorati […]

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One of my first plane trips was a sightseeing tour on one of Scenic Airlines vintage Ford Tri-Motors back in the late 1970s. I’ll never forget seeing my house from the air or the big wooden steering wheel yokes in the cockpit. Unfortunately that aircraft crashed a few months after my flight and it was […]

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I use Google Analytics to analyze the web traffic to the Syzdekistan website. Like most Google products, it is easy to use and quite elegant. I don’t get a huge amount of traffic nor am I selling anything so I look at the statistics mainly just for fun. Sometimes the searches that people use to […]

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Syzdekistan runs on Wordpress, which is a blogging system that runs in PHP and has a MySQL database on the backend. I have a hosting service (BlueHost) which hosts Syzdekistan. I use Bluehost’s software to install Wordpress and to install updates. Back in January, I updated to version 2.05 which was a fairly easy process. […]

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I haven’t have computer access to get detailed updates of Steve Job’s keynote address at MacWorld Expo for the last several years because I have been working in the field. Last year, since I was in the market for a new laptop, I was very eager to hear the news but had to settle for […]

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As usual, I have been closely following the current space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. NASA is running low on time and options for the return of the Shuttle. NASA prefers to land the Shuttle at their launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This saves them a lot of time […]

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Technorati has an excellent article on the increasing popularity of blogging.
* Technorati is now tracking more than 57 Million blogs.
* Spam-, splog- and sping-fighting efforts at Technorati are paying dividends in terms of the reduction of garbage in our indexes, even if it does seem to […]

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Getting the extra hour of sleep on Sunday is nice, but the end of Daylight Savings Time really doesn’t hit me until I drive home from work in the dark. This year, I was actually very good and purchased some 9 volt batteries and replaced the battery in a smoke detector (after I stole its […]

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Last night I think I figured out why our network speed was so slow. I hooked my laptop directly up to the cable modem and it worked just fine. This indicated that the problem was on my network. Since I see two other wireless access points (one humorously named “notyournetwork” and the other “Only Our […]

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