Macworld

There's no fire in the fireplace, there's no carpet on the floor…

First story off the cab ranks, at APCMag.com. And in a shock move, it involves Apple. Well, sorta. I may well end up hearing from Apple’s army of lawyers over this one… Fake Phil Schiller: what Apple has in store for 2009: “We intercepted Fake Phil Schiller sneaking in to Steve Jobs’ carspot at Cupertino …

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And everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio…

More news, reviews and not-terribly idle speculation today. It’s enough to send one GaGa… First up, at PC Authority: Macworld 2009 rumour mill: Windkintosh? “Unofficial “official” WiFi drivers brings the Mac Netbook ever closer — albeit in a shady legal fashion.” And then a pair of reviews at Gadgetguy.com.au coming out of the recent Adelaide …

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"We're (talking) in Nerd English. The best kind of English."

A direct quote, that one, and unsurprisingly, a quote from me. You can hear the rest in this week’s Australian Macworld Weekend Edition Podcast: Episode 42 — the Meaning of Life: “MJCP talks to Tony Williams,Danny Gorog and Alex Kidman about Apple pricing policies, iPhone non-disclosure, Google’s Android/iPhone strategy, Bento 2, MagSafe and life on …

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This is March to… oobely-boo, this is misc, and this is… other.

Argh. One of the more challenging aspects to being your own boss is doing the accounting and keeping track of everything. And then trying to work out the tax implications. Which almost segues… almost… bear with me.. into a need for some money, in order to pay my accountant to make sure I’m not stuffing …

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Son, as your lawyer, I declare y'all are in a 12-piece bucket o' trouble.

Why does Monday morning keep rolling around? Couldn’t it just, for once, keep itself to itself? I guess if the LHC does go awry, it might well do, were that not largely poppycock. Oh well. Recent illnesses have put me behind the self-promotion ball, something that needs correction right away. If not sooner. Except that, …

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I had the world's quickest and strangest haircut yesterday…

As apparently my eyebrows were “Too antennae-like”. So, in the name of getting a nice headshot done, I had the world’s tiniest haircut on my eyebrows only. Who said my life wasn’t sometimes surreal? At the same time, quality Alex writing is available for your enjoyment in print and online. Just yesterday I was trying …

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