A tale of operating systems & stubbornness, with one too many relationship analogies. Part 1 | Part 2 (sooner) | Part 3 (soon) The permanent desktop. First, two disclaimers: 1) Yes, I am a walking contradiction… 2) This is not a review of Linux Mint. So, I just obliterated my Windows 7 installation and installed Linux Mint. No dual booting, no safety nets…How did this happen to an Apple fanboy-turned-Windows 7 fanboy? (Subquestion: Did it have something to do with my third Xbox 360 dying? You’re goddamn right it did!) After being seduced (the perfect word for their marketing)...

“Mommy, why would Santa deliver a present that’s broken?” What you’re looking at are incoming search queries hitting Games Are Evil on Christmas Day 2008, courtesy of our Woopra stat tracking software. (Woopra is incredible by the way, and blows away Analytics.) These search queries tell me that someone failed miserably in Activision’s quality control department. Granted, I’ve been aware of this problem since late October. But the article on our site snagging all of those searches has been the most read post for a week straight… Let me fill in the shadowy...

Hopefully lost geek souls like me will stumble onto this post in the future and smile. I’m posting this because it took me two hours of Googling to find the answer, with very limited results. And Apple’s official support pages are worthless on this topic. Here was my situation: I have a MacBook Pro with a busted SuperDrive, and needed to install Windows via Boot Camp. As you may or may not know, this is not possible using an image file (like it IS with Parallels), so I set off in search of a way to share my Dell Desktop DVD Drive with my trusty MacBook. (At the time of this writing, you...

Technology has once again caused me to change my shorts. And the timing couldn’t be more ideal, with my renewed hunger for blogging and all things geek. A mobile version of Wordpress has been released to the App store for iPhone / iTouch users. It’s free, surprisingly easy to use, supports photos, and I’m posting from it right now. Geekout! This could mean many things for you, dear readers: 1: an influx of smog-ridden photos from Fresno coupled with on the spot rants. 2: hmmm. 3: more mental doodles. That’s good, yah? Posted below are some screenshots. Mobile blogging types with...

iPods, iWeb, iPhoto, iLife, iMac. We get it, pretty much every new service, hardware device, or mainstream consumer software Apple designs is going to get a lower case “i” stuck in front of it. We’ve all come to terms with this and it hasn’t really been abused (much) by Apple – until now. I was browsing over to Apple’s MobileMe (.mac R.I.P.) support site to investigate why my email was locked in purgatory tonight, when i noticed this: Really? A basic Apple account password retrieval form is now officially called “iForgot?” Ohhhhboy. I’m not...