Dear Apple,

I'm totally geeked right now! New iMac! Intel! New PowerBook! Woo hoo!!! :)

Why am I such a drooling fanboy, without even owning any hardware?

Here's what I'm talking about.

Mom, Dad, you're getting a new Mac. There's no reason not to anymore.

Sure, Microsoft Office is pretty ubiquitous on a lot of machines, but can you seriously call it portable? Portable OpenOffice is "the complete office suite you can run from a USB drive for complete access to both your files and your office apps -- anywhere you go." Quite cool!

In the game Second Life, apparently there is a place developed as a sort of "time out" area for bad players (bad being obnoxious). That place is a cornfield with a tractor and a television playing a 1940s movie "Boy in Court" about a troubled teen trying to avoid a …

Well, I've finally given up on Skype. I deleted Skype off of my machine for good, and will likely never return. Did Skype do something to completely piss me off? No, they still remain one of my recommended ways for VOIP on the cheap. Unfortunately there were several issues that …

Warning: serious geek talk ahead.

If this message posts, you'll be privy to an interesting problem I had with a CGI script, file permissions, and a strange bug that just showed up in 2006 in my news posting scripts. It's also around the same time that the 2006.html file …