We needed another laptop in a pinch today at the office today, so I walked down the block to Best Buy and picked up a brand new Toshiba Satellite A55. We’ve had several Toshiba notebooks at the office, and they’ve been sturdy, reliable machines, as far as Windows machines go. So I didn’t put a whole lot of thinking into the purchase, though it’s clear to me now that I should have.

Apple Developer Connection: Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X

Wed 11 Aug 200405:34 PM

Jump to this link

Whitney: New typeface from Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Wed 11 Aug 200402:22 PM

Not “whitey,” but “Whitney,” as in the museum. Easy mistake.

Jump to this link

Bandai Halo PC

Wed 11 Aug 200401:23 PM

Ridiculously but admittedly cute.

Jump to this link

Seven Quick Tips for a Spam-Free Blog

Wed 11 Aug 200403:37 AM

Jump to this link

Ecto Plurbius Unum

Wed 11 Aug 200402:58 AM

Good Goss Almighty

Tue 10 Aug 200408:44 PM

A couple of quotes from Porter Goss, President Bush’s nomination to head the CIA, made me nearly choke on the pen cap I was chewing at work this afternoon. I was in the middle of an afternoon spent wrestling with PowerPoint when I heard these remarks, taped earlier this summer at a Republican breakfast, on a profile of the nominee during
All Things Considered, and they sent a chill through me.

Small-town Kryptonian in the Big City

Tue 10 Aug 200408:23 PM

Hardly a brilliant — or particularly well-written — review of the pilot episode of the 1950s television series “The Adventures of Superman,” but a nice reminder of a show I used to watch faithfully as a kid.

Jump to this link