The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Told ya…

| April 4, 2005

Spent yesterday running around. Groceries, Home Depot, Lowes, JC Penney, Macys. Liz found a great table for the dining room, some stuff for her orchids and a light fixture. So, I had to put it up, which is where I found that the apartment was miswired (because everyone wants the ceiling light on permanently, right?) [...]

First update from my Mini

| April 3, 2005

I need some coffee…. Anyway, this is the first in some info about the Mac Mini. How I'm using it, how it stacks up, etc. First, I want to bitch slap everyone who said it was slow. It's about as fast as a comparably clocked Pentium M. No, it's not a dual G5 tower, but [...]

The Mini has arrived.

| April 1, 2005

Actually, it arrived a week ago; this is just the first time I've had to sit and arrange the photos. I've been too busy playing with it. First, I'd like to express my sympathies to the Catholics in the crowd. While I'm not religious myself, one cannot ignore the influence that the Catholic church has [...]