Bryan Strawser

Using a Sony VAIO PCG-R505JL laptop right now.  It’s nice, but there has to be better out there.  Too many technical issues with the TIBook and my employer right now to make it a worthwile portable option for me.  Guess I’m sticking to a Windows PC for the time being… 

S**t or get off the pot. Okay, enough is enough. Jonathon Delacour has been flirting with the idea of getting a Mac, teasing us, coyly, with this will he or won’t he like a 16 year old on a hot date. Time for this man to buy a Mac. As I lay here on my bed, lightweight PowerBook on my lap, I decided to start a list of reasons why Jonathon should either s**t or get off the pot and buy that PBook. Weight: Carrying around a PowerBook doesn’t feel that much different than carrying around my purse or a notepad. Actually, it weighs much less than my purse. My Dell laptop — the infamous mobile desktop — weights 19 pounds. My TiBook weights, what? Five pounds? Six? What would you rather lug around on a trip? A load of bricks or a load of feathers? Ease of Use: I have an older TiBook, which is a 15 inch and plenty big enough for me. The keyboard is very comfortable and the touchpad is very responsive. I like the wide wrist supports. Monitor: My TiBook is great for watching DVD movies in bed. Neat Apple stuff: There isn’t fun stuff for Windows. That’s what I found… [Burningbird]

This sucks.  I enjoyed the columns in New Architect.

New Architect Signs Off. New Architect, the magazine where I’ve been privileged to be a columnist the last 2 1/2 years, will publish its final issue next week with the March, 2003 edition. The magazine, and its predecessor Web Techniques, had a devoted readership who valued the publication’s ‘how to’ and ‘best practices’ focus, and, speaking now as a subscriber to the magazine, I’m sorry to see it go. I also really enjoyed writing my legal/policy column for non-lawyers and non-policy wonks. I’ll miss it. I hope I can find a new outlet for the thinking I did in that space each month. Maybe here. [icann.Blog]

Kareen was shot on Oz!

I gotta wait a week to find out what happened?!  ARGH!

NY Times: “The evidence is now overwhelming that Linux, once a symbol of software’s counterculture, has become a mainstream technology.” [Scripting News]

Washington Post piece about Michael Osver, one of the thirty winners of Amazon’s contest to be one of the first owners of a Segway Human Transporter. Winners had to submit a 75-word essay describing why they should get a Segway months before they go on sale to the general public. Osver wrote:

My dream . . . Gliding effortlessly onto the sidewalk, crowded with commuters. Someone calls my name and I turn on a dime to see a neighbor who looks out of breath. He says he’s running late for work. I smile. Their way, the old way. My way, Segway.

Not surprisingly, he’s already getting heckled in the street.
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Lost pilot lands at home of Air Force One [CNN]

Amazing.. I’m Actually Managing To Do It. No, nothing like you’re probably thinking. Every time I’ve ever tried to read The Silmarillion, I’ve bailed out about five… [Derek’s Rantings and Musings]