Archive for July, 2006

Installing OSX on Thinkpad

Before I bought a Macbook - I played around with OSX for a little while to see if I liked it.
I did.
Here is a good guide for installing Apple Mac OSX on a standard laptop.
It helped to jumpstart a renewed interest in OSX that ended with me giving in and joining club InsomniMac. ( […]

good overview on filesharing for macs

http://www.macorchard.com/sharing/

Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

A woman goes through an ugly divorce (aren’t they all?), has a short fling, then goes to Italy, India, and Indonesia in search of inner peace and a balance between happiness/contentment with herself, and worldy pleasures.
It was a book my sister had heard of - and I took on as my latest exercise in doing […]

joined the cult of mac

i bought a macbook today. a black one.
it’s beautiful.
i’ve wanted an intel mac since they were just a nerd’s wet dream - and now that they exist, are quite fast ( 2 ghz duo ) - and run linux/osx/windows - i am finally free, to do anything i want with my computer. and […]

Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Read it because everybody has, I’d already read parts of online, and between a loan from a friend and a gift from my mom - I had two copies.
Similar insights to Gladwell, although I think they were last backed up, or even as rational. He does talk about how that’s the art to economics […]

Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney

Great read - reminded me terribly of The Catcher in the Rye, only with a little more mature content. Dark, but one you can relate to if you’ve ever felt lost or like you were waiting for something to happen which would pull you out of one of the lonely lows in life.
In short […]