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Linux is cool, but is it cool enough for the masses? Probably not. I would not stick my wife or mom or sister with a Linux box (even running Ubuntu). I use Linux daily, but I’m a geek, that’s understandable. MacOS X, on the other hand, that is cool and [...]

This is a sad story.
Dad goes to Wal-Mart to buy three MP3 players — one for each of his three kids.  Come Christmas, the ten year old in the family starts crying her head off.  What’s wrong?  Is the MP3 player broken?  Nope.  She had just been hit with a face full of porn!
It [...]

I just finished watch a bunch of movies from Netflix. Wanted to write some quick notes about them.

Superbad - Decent flick, not super-funny, but still entertaining.
The Kingdom - Hoo-Rah! Americans rule! Well, at least that’s the sense I get from this film. Not a particularly bad film, but not a [...]

I got Leopard as a Christmas gift from my parents (aren’t they wonderful?). I rsync’d all of my data from my Powerbook G4/1.67Ghz over to an external drive (around 60GB of pictures, music, documents and other digital nick-nacks) the night before. Yesterday morning, I woke up bright and early for the big [...]

Thanks to Mario for the tip on “iPhonizing” Wordpress blogs!  He found a very cool Wordpress plugin that automagically iPhonizes a blog when it detects the iPhone or iPod touch user-agent.  The plugin is named iWPhone.  I just installed it on ultramookie.com and if you visit from your iPhone or iPod touch, you’ll get a very special version!  And [...]

I got some awesome loot from Christmas!
Thank you Joyce and Albert for Mario Strikers!  I have been waiting to play this one for a long time!  Now, I can — and added benefit, I can play against Albert online with Nintendo Wifi.
Thank you Mom and Dad for the gift monies!  With it, I got [...]

Here is my long-winded review of the Apple iPhone at Epinions.