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Continue reading →: Quad G5 Benchmarks
A MacRumors.com reader in the UK received his Quad G5 and has sent in some preliminary benchmarks. An xBench 1.2 score of 151.86 and a Cinebench Rendering rating of 1016 CB sounds pretty good to me. He also performed a Photoshop Radial Blur test in 19.2 seconds. My 867MHz Quicksilver…
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Continue reading →: Mario Kart
On Sunday afternoon, the Gang of Eleven: Randy, Rae, myself, Joon-Mo, Felix, Daniel, Osvaldo, Alicia, Anna, Cyndi, and Stacy played Mario Kart in Cupertino. No, we didn’t linked up our Ninendo boxes for a multi-player arcade-fest, we played our version of Mario Kart using three Green Machine tri-wheel bikes, plastic…
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Continue reading →: CCF Harmony and Bliss
The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco held their annual Harmony and Bliss: An Evening of Chinese Foods and Western Wines with tea, of course event at the Empress of China restaurant in Chinatown. It was extra special to attend the event dressed up in our fashion best. My parents…
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Continue reading →: Christine and Ben Baby Shower
Christine and Ben held their baby shower at their aunt’s house in San Francisco past weekend. It wasn’t that long ago that Rae and I were celebrating with them at the same house just prior to their wedding or at their engagement party at Andy and Amy’s. In that time,…
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Continue reading →: You're doing a hecuva job
This is a not the role model for effective leadership. More analysis of Michael Brown’s abilities.
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Continue reading →: Commando II
Earlier this week, I read the script to the never-filmed sequel to Commando starring Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Written in 1989 by Steven E. de Souza with revisions by Frank Darabont, Commando II racks yet another impressive body count for the invincible Colonel John Matrix. For an Arnold film, there’s plenty…
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Continue reading →: Aperture on Rob Galbraith
There’s an article on Rob Galbraith’s that has more information about Aperture. Some key points: Aperture’s RAW converter is based on the Mac OS X RAW converter (see iPhoto) Aperture’s Library is really a Mac OS X Package One Aperture Library at a time Aperture is designed for a single…
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Continue reading →: RT Halloween Party
It’s time for another Rotten Tomatoes Halloween Party! We’ve been going to these events for the past several years, and each subsequent time, the event is at a bigger venue with even larger crowds! Last year, Rae and I dressed up as characters from Hero. Last night, we harkened back…
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Continue reading →: Resuscitating the Lombard
Salim borrowed my old PowerBook Lombard the other day, and when he returned it, he brought over an identical Lombard. Both laptops would not boot up, however, giving me identical error messages. Following the initial gray Apple logo, a circle with a slash appeared. I tried restarting multiple times, resetting…
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Continue reading →: Comment Spam
I finally got around to installing SecureImage to deal with comment spam. I had been using SpamKarma for some time until it started spewing PHP warnings all over the place. We’ll see how well the new system works to prevent spam floods on the site. My old version of ImageMagick…






