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Boot Camp Cracked Me

It took less than two weeks but Boot Camp cracked me.  Specifically, it cracked my foot.  Even more specifically, it cracked the 5th metatarsal in my left foot.
A quick visit to the clinic and the doctor suggested the likely problem is a stress fracture , so he sent me off for x-rays.  Until next week [...]

Newest: Time Capsule

As I wrote about back in January, the stand-out item in the first Macworld of 2008 was, for me, the Time Capsule: a storage appliance combined with a wireless 802.11n router, including with network ports for tethered connections and a USB port for printers, external storage or other devices. Sounds like a pretty cool little [...]

Boot Camp: Day 1: Easy. Day 2: Not so much.

The hardest thing about my first day at Boot Camp was getting up. I haven’t voluntarily seen 5:30am in a long time and it came too soon after a restless night of half-sleep. It was so early that my dog, who for the last 3 years has acted as my 7:00am wake-up paw, [...]