Two new links in the sidebar - to David Byrne and Insert Credit, the Pitchfork of video game sites. Their thematic joint - android girls. On August 17 (you gotta scroll down - no permalinks) David posted about Hiroshi Ishiguro’s android woman and compared them to Pygmalion and Galatea. I want to address Ovid’s […]
Category Archives: technology
PSA
May 25, 2005 – 5:59 am
An early warning for my readers: stop downloading MPAA-unsafe movies via BitTorrent. Fox sending takedown notices is just the first shaft in a forthcoming volley of shaftings. I didn’t write about this in my Star Wars entry, but of course I had access to the workprint and decided not to download it, because I was […]
Quick Mac OS X 10.4 impressions
April 20, 2005 – 7:06 pm
So last night I was in the alley behind my mansion shooting skee-lo with The Game and Courtney Peldon and there’s this smell like plastic on fire and then this dude in a green hoodie comes out of nowhere. “It’s me,” he says, drawing back his hood, “you.” And sure enough, it’s me, with my […]
This is not good
March 30, 2005 – 9:29 am
Geoffrey-Litwacks-Computer:~ gsl$ ioreg -l -w0 | grep -i IOBatteryInfo
“IOBatteryInfo” =
“Capacity”=639,”Amperage”=1200,”Current”=616,”Voltage”=12215,”Flags”=4
Kids: get AppleCare on your laptops.
The Future of Google
March 17, 2005 – 11:20 am
A popular opinion piece making the rounds on the web is Molly Wood’s editorial, in which she speculates about the future of Google on the desktop as a thin client. Thin clients have been around for a long time - the idea is that instead of having a computer with a powerful CPU to run […]
Why is Sony so intent on making delightful products?
March 2, 2005 – 4:56 pm
They have the great-looking W800i Walkman phone coming out, with a 512m card for music and a 2mp camera - in other words, something that made me think, hey, should I dump my Treo for this? Well, maybe!
Update: I should clarify that the W800i isn’t really in the same market segment as the Treo; it’s […]
Apple predictions
February 25, 2005 – 11:45 am
Learn from my mistake: buy and hold stock in companies you love.
OS X
10.4: June 30.
10.5: March 31 2007. No idea about the new features, but expect exciting new iLife apps by this time.
OS X on Intel
Would represent a major strategy change. Think of the hardware testing issues alone. I don’t see it.
TiVo
If Apple bought TiVo, […]
Crazy desire
February 17, 2005 – 4:44 pm
Some days I feel like my bookmarks are the stones of a large castle. I thought this was insane when I heard it, but someone asked a writer for his novel-writing method and he said “first I write the novel, then I burn the pages and rewrite it from memory.” I’m thinking of doing the […]
Windows Media Center 2005
October 26, 2004 – 10:59 pm
I promised myself in February I wouldn’t go through another television season without timeshifting, and started looking into PVRs. Since I can be extremely cheap, I was utterly galled by TiVo’s fee - monthly or a one-time payment, it struck me that the intrinsic value of guide information is about zero. As alternatives I considered […]
Thinking about syndication
August 15, 2004 – 1:16 am
The big deal at the moment is the suggestion that feeds should be the starting point for publishing, not the end. It’s not a bad idea: all the applications you put data into—calendar, photo album, whatever—send feeds out, then you splice them into one and publish it to the web. (If I took that approach […]
You know
June 16, 2004 – 12:18 am
I could have hosted litwack.org on weblogs.com. Good thing I’m smarter than that.
Not to blow my own horn
May 24, 2004 – 11:45 pm
But: on 12/9/03 I wrote “I wonder if [Sony is] going to put out TVs with lil’ CELL chips built in.” Anyway, here it is.