Archive for June, 2008

Last week I bought and installed Office 2008 on our new iMac … and immediately had a 400+ MB download to update it. Tonight I started up PowerPoint … and am immediately confronted with a 158 MB to update it again. I can only assume that Microsoft screwed up something in the initial update...
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I’m back in the office after a week’s vacation, and after clearing a mini-mountain of email and other assorted work, I feel energized. Oddly, over the past 5 years I have never actually taken all my allotted vacation time … but I intend to this year. The benefits are just too great, and the...
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Gotta love this new quote of the day: “Pardon him … he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” - George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra Saw it on Bruce Byfield’s blog …
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Did you catch the Mac start-up sounds in WALL-E? Teresa and I took the kids to see WALL-E last night (great movie, paradigm-breaker, lots of fun). One particularly interesting part for long-time Mac users are the Mac start-up sounds that accompany WALL-E’s and EVE’s reboot cycles. Notcot has already noticed that EVE is an...
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My son Ethan’s baseball team won a city-wide championship today, ending their current season and extending a unbeaten win streak to three complete years. The game was tough – the Mariners were down 8-1 and 12-5 in early innings, but managed to tighten up the defense and tune up the bats to squeak out...
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You gotta love this quote: “It’s so disappointing,” said Linda Wilmesherr as she peered through binoculars at water pouring through a gap that appeared to be 30 feet wide. “With all the guns in this county, couldn’t we kill a muskrat?” The poor woman is of course dealing with the possibility of her house...
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Teresa, the kids and I just got home from the Apple store in Pacific Centre, where we picked up a new iMac. First impression: wow! The screen is amazing and the speed is great. Second impression: Apple Migration Assistant failed to assist, and all our user accounts, data, and applications are still on the...
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I’m supposed to be in Hartford tonight prepping for a DVD shoot … but thunderstorms have closed the airport. Which means I’m cooling my heels in a Toronto airport hotel (not literally, it’s muggy here) until tomorrow … The cameras will have to wait.
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I just bought the G4010 and am having the exact same problems as this poster on Apple’s support forums … which leads me to believe that the G4010 is not actually Mac compatible, as HP claims it is. 1. If I power-up the scanner while the iMac is running, the mouse pointer freezes, and...
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When I see this Ford skyscraper ad, I’m assuming that mousing over the ad will show me something about the people. After all, it says “rollover to see their stories.” So that’s the expectation I have – that I can find something out about two real people who really bought a Ford who really...
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I saw this on Seth Godin’s blog today …
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I feel good. Really good. Reason? I worked out last night … even though it was a crazy, crazy day with a full 9 or so hours at work, an hour coaching baseball for my son’s team, and a coffee with friends. I think it was Penelope Trunk who said it a few months...
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I would like someone to create a new Facebook app, based on the myriads of Likeness quizzes. But instead of likenesses based on fruits, movies, books, cars, friends, or anything else, it would be based on the degree to which you dislike likeness quizzes. Bah. Humbug.
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House of orange Originally uploaded by johnkoetsier The flowers were blooming last Sunday at Blue Heron Reserve in Chilliwack, BC. Here’s one that caught my eye …
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