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Once upon a time, I upgraded to Leopard on my Mac Pro, and, though I did not mention it at the time, something in upgrade land totally pissed off my Brother 5070N laser printer.
I’d bought the printer in the first place because it was one of the first to support Bonjour (née Rendezvous, née Zeroconf) […]

So now that things have calmed down a little bit, I finally had time to install Leopard on the Mac Pro this weekend. I know I’m a bit late to the party, but here are a few quick thoughts so far…
The Good:

Time Machine — syncs happily to the 500GB internal drive I installed last […]

Dang, it’s suddenly turning out to be a great week! In brief:

After a couple miserable days of near-100-degree temperatures, the weather has cooled off and is now downright awesome.
Got my monitor back from Apple (no thanks to DHL, who apparently don’t even believe in leaving slips at the door when they ignore the “no […]

This Little Piggy Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
After a long day of fighting with Safari issues and worrying about shipping my monitor off for repair, I was rewarded with a lovely dinner with my wife, a surprise early result from the frame shop, a little bit of work in […]

Naturally, right at the height of the iPhone hooplah, the USB ports on the back of my 23″ Apple Cinema Display would decide to die a sad and lonely death.
I woke up this morning to find that neither my keyboard nor mouse (the USB devices attached to the back of the ACD) would wake Serenity […]

Three cheers for my amazing wife, who this morning kicked my ass, made me go work out, and called Apple while I was taking out my frustration on the elliptical machine. She is a saint for putting up with me when I’m being a whiny little bitch (fairly infrequent these days, but still happens […]

This evening, my MacPro decided that “restart” was an important and necessary part of “wake from sleep.” It starts to wake normally, but hiccups and suddenly it’s booting again. I’ve done just about everything I can do to it over the past three hours, including a complete restore from the install media, and […]

So I discovered the other day that my new Mac came bundled with Plasq’s nifty Comic Life, a program that lets you easily drop your photos and other images into comic book layouts, add effects and word balloons, and generally cause you to lose track of time.
I started putting together a simple page last night […]

Bleah. Totally run down. Stressed out, burned out, and all-around fried. But still clinging desperately to life in the hopes that it might all settle down at some point. (It has to settle down, right?)
Thanks to a bumper crop of ragweed, I have spent the last two weeks wanting to claw […]

Now that I’ve gotten caught up on my huge backlog of email, it’s time to close some tabs and share some links, because it’s more fun than doing anything productive. Submitted for your approval:
Chunk Norris Facts will teach you all sorts of interesting things about Chuck Norris; for example, “the chief export of Chuck […]