Cracked Screen

Took me a cou­ple years and a cou­ple lap­tops, but I finally dropped one just good enough to shat­ter the LCD. AppleCare doesn’t cover broke-it-yourself phys­i­cal dam­age, only the deep cen­ter of the bath­tub curve, so it’s basi­cally point­less to drop the money on it. Again, if you’re buy­ing a Mac, save your pen­nies and don’t …

Elections

[Disclosure: I dropped a day’s pay on Obama’s cam­paign about a week before the pas­tor thing hap­pened, and hope I never feel com­pelled to write about this elec­tion again.] Matt Taibbi is (as usual, and in spite of his ridicu­lous hump­ing of Hunter Thompson’s legacy) repeat­edly cor­rect in his assess­ment of American pol­i­tics as a bunch …

Last To The Party

Upgraded my own install of Zimbra to 5.0.4 today, haven’t played with IM yet. Shared doc­u­ments, a task list, seems cool. BTW, don’t ever, ever, ever mod­ify the LDAP schema in Zimbra. Even via their own “posix­Ac­count” exten­sions. It’s just bad news all around. Also, I’m enjoy­ing muxtape.