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Niche-y content warning: if you don’t instantly recognize these software titles, you probably won’t be interested in this. If you don’t know, Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion allow people who use Macs to run Windows. That’s it. This is not meant to be a comprehensive review, real reviews are already out there, written by people who are far more thorough and qualified (and interested) than I am. It’s meant to be the visceral impressions of someone who has used one program intensively and has switched to using the other program intensively. Just one guy’s reaction. With a little unsolicited editorial opinion thrown in. Whee. Continue reading

I know there are some friends and family who have been dragging their feet to get into video conferencing, not knowing what to get or how much to spend.

If you’ve been on the fence and want to test the water without gambling a lot of green, you should check out Sony Eyetoy for Playstation 2. Best Buy has them for $4.99 plus applicable local tax. (Order it online and choose “pick up at local store” if it’s available, you save shipping.) Continue reading

I used to be an Apple evangelist. I still like Apple and some of their products, but we’re not friends like we used to be. Earlier in December, wrestling with a technical issue on my computer got me thinking about life and all sorts of stupid stuff (6 hours doing the same thing over and over to fix a stupid computer problem on your day off so you can work the next day will do that), including wondering why I was working on fixing the problem and not actually leapfrogging the issue and actually improving things. Continue reading

I just read an interesting article in Wired Magazine called The Critics Need a Reboot. The Internet Hasn’t Led Us Into a New Dark Age. It’s not one of their 20-page epics, it’s more of an editorial piece. The premise is that “the experts” are all atwitter about how computers and technology and video games are making us dumb.

I’ll spoil the ending; it’s still worth a read. The answer is that they’re not. Continue reading

I’m starting a new WordPress based website, I’ve spent the morning sorting out kinks and bringing old blog posts in from my MySpace page to jump start things. I’m still digging for a theme I like (theme, as in Wordpress theme to control the look of the site, not theme as in “man’s inhumanity to man”), and I’m going to expand it soon with some photos and some music postings and stuff, just have to pull it together. I’m hoping that something like this that’s easy enough to update and all will let me post more stuff more often… If you see anything funny, please let me know, but it’s all pretty thrown-together for now anyway….

For the odd soul that ends up reading this (Hi, self!), expect lots of dramatic changes as I mess with templates and all that.

As people who know me will tell you, I’m kind of a weirdo about technology. I do computer work and actually hate computers at least some of the time. I write electronic music and not totally comfortable with the idea of electronic music. I love drum ‘n bass and all that, but I still have this dumb notion in the back of my mind that real people should be in the same room playing instruments that they’ve worked to learn in order to make “real” music, especially someone like me who has practiced doing just that, it seems almost treasonous to do computer-only stuff. I own a cell phone but I never answer it. I mean, I’m OK at figuring out technology-related problems that arise in my life so some people mistakenly think of me as a “techy.” I’m not. I’m able to just generally figure stuff out because if I don’t fix certain kinds of problems, nobody else is going to do it for me. And if what I need to figure out happens to be on a computer, then I’ll figure it out. But I also figure stuff related to food, music, dogs, parenting, home maintenance, politics, photography, shaving, clothing, reading, writing, and just about anything related to living. Since I wear glasses most of the time, that makes me a “techie” I guess. Whatever. Anway, to those who know my relationship to cell phones and computers, what I say next may shock and amaze you. Continue reading