Status Update: Apple v. Psystar v. Apple

The Florida Court has granted Apple’s request for a stay of proceedings pending the outcome of the Appeal. This is typical and expected. The Florida Court had not yet ruled on Apple’s Motion to transfer the Florida case to Judge Alsup in California. On the Appellate front, Apple has filed its Answering Brief as well […]

The Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books 2000-2009

Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 1 Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling 2 Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3 The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier 4 And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell 5 Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck 6 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou 7 Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz 8 His […]

Verifing Time Machine Backups?

Time Machine is very boolean in it\’s operation.  It either was successful or failed.  So if there is a single file that it can\’t backup, it aborts it\’s current backup, and shuts down until the next backup cycle.  This isn\’t exactly an optimal solution.  Other Backup software (eg Retrospect) will log an error on a […]

Nickelodeon Greenlights The Legend of Korra

Nickelodeon announced this morning that it has given the green light to \”The Legend of Korra,\” from \”Avatar: The Last Airbender\” series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko: Nickelodeon, the number one producer of television animation in the world, has greenlit a new series from the creators of the hit animated TV show Avatar: The […]