For those unfamiliar with the nickname, Tog (Bruce Tognazzini) is one of the original Macintosh UI designers and is still considered to be one of the finest authorities on UI design available today. After long avoiding posting an official review on OS X, he has finally done so in this …

I had no idea what to expect when we went in to see Big Fish. The film is the latest work by acclaimed, but eccentric, director Tim Burton (of Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Nightmare Before Christmas fame). But, is it any good? I certainly thought so, but it wasn't what …

The capsule summary is that this film is at least as good as its reviews say. I had heard about Calendar Girls a few weeks back and Carol and I decided to go see it during the week in order to get a break and brighten things up. Brighten things …

In a sign that digital cameras and disposable cameras are the mainstay of their sales in the "west", Kodak has announced that they will stop selling reloadable film cameras in the US. They are also going to stop producing APS cameras for sale elsewhere. The release notes that they will …

The so-far-successful Mars rover, Spirit, has been given its marching orders and is set to move out, according to a press release from NASA. Don't forget to check out the cool pictures at the official site.

While reading an article from Wired today, it dawned on me that not only do cell phone ring tones bring in $3.5B of the $32B in music sales every year, but that portion dwarfs the sales of online music through all avenues. So much for people being interested in …

A number of developments in the SCO/IBM/Linux saga this week, including some disclosures by SCO and the announcement that Novell has completed its acquisition of SUSE which leads the way for IBM to pump money into Novell. The ongoing drama (such as it is) between SCO and the …

Those who have an interest in RFID (Radio Frequency ID) technology may be interested to note that the newly-established standards organization, EPC Global, has appointed (or is that anointed) Verisign to run their registry. EPC Global was established to take over for the Auto-ID lab, which was founded by MIT …

It appears that a musical that started its life as a movie will be returning to the silver screen once again. An article in the New York Times indicates that The Producers will return as a new film to begin shooting in 2005, staring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, who …

An article in the New York Times this morning points to an article from Science that describes research done by Cornell University indicating that the levels of PCBs in the two samples of salmon differed significantly. However, despite this, the levels are still 50 times less than the amount approved …

According to an article from CNet, Morgan Freeman and his production company are planning to release a film simultaneously on the Internet and in theaters later this year. No word on what kind of DRM (Digital Rights Management) will be used, but it will be interesting to watch.

If anyone is thinking that Washington doesn't take the whole radioactivity issue seriously, they should check out this article from the Washington Post. It appears that a lawyer in DC had gone in for a stress test and his doctor had given him a radioactive dye. Turns out that the …

I'm going to be putting the MacWorld Keynote up on the big screen on Tuesday at noon. Send me an email if you want to come. Most likely, it'll be streamed in via QuickTime.

There was a celebration and no doubt a huge sigh of relief this morning when the first pictures came in from the Mars rover, Spirit. The craft, about the size of a golf cart, will spend its life roaming the red planet, grinding up rock samples and analyzing their contents …

Sick of hearing the accolades for Apple in 2003? Don't read this article from InfoWorld. Tom Yager gives the Apple G5, Panther, and Panther Server scores of 8.8, 9.2 and 9.3 respectively. For the G5, he likes the memory bandwidth and processing power, noting that for his …

And in the "I thought of that" category, we have the new product Intelliscanner Collector from Intelli Solutions. Many of you know that I've been keeping a large DVD collection (which replaced my large LD collection) for years and have a database that contains all of the information about my …

Many of you know that I don't usually put personal information up on this site. However, I have made the occasional exception for pictures of particularly good trips and so forth. Here is another such exception. On Christmas night, in front of the lit tree and the crackling fireplace, Carol …

An article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describes the ordeal of a college student and her fish trying to get home for the holidays. Suffice it to say that the TSA wasn't particularly helpful or supportive and the fish's life was at stake.

Scaled Composites announced on the 17th of December (thanks, Amanda, for pointing this out to me) that they had broken the sound barrier in SpaceShipOne, the craft they are building to compete for the XPrize.

OK, it was the parents of the two year old, but still, how ridiculous can you get? According to this story on CNN, a Stamford, CT mother has told the city she wants to be compensated because her two year old ran head-long into a railing that was painted green …