This week has not been a good one for my various electronic devices on which I rely to keep me entertained, informed, even employed…

I downloaded the latest greatest version of MacOS and iTunes and started fooling around with Ping and Last.fm. I agree with the consensus, Last.fm does more…

So I’m up late updating my miniature painting blog and generally reading about miniature painting. When I notice my laptop wants to update. I ignore it for a while. Then I see what it is and it is a new version of iTunes. No biggie, no need to reboot, so I let it download. It updates my library, now my iPhone, but the big news is it has a new icon…

I wanted a new Mac, but I didn’t really have the money, so I upgraded my old laptop’s hard drive. Then on Wednesday this week, just after being admired for it’s size or lackof, the 12″ PowerBook up and died. I took it to Simply Computing and sure enough it needed a new logic board…

The recent updates to my G4 aimed at bringing digital audio out of Loretta combined with my NAD receiver and Paradigm speakers is a big improvement both in volume and clarity, not that I needed the former. I still don’t have a subwoofer for 5.1 surround sound…