Is it just me or is a passing year sort of depressing. When I look back on 2007 I feel sad it is over. I had a good year. It was a rough year at times, but also a defining year for me. I took a new job, the first time I changed employment in 15 years. I started exercising more. I’m less than a year away from my 10th anniversary. I have a daughter in first grade who is a whiz that constantly amazes me. I have another one who should be in school because she is so smart, but missed the cutoff date.<!—break --> [read more...]

I have been wanting a way to carry my passwords around with me. I purchased a USB card. The next step was to find a way to easily manage the passwords on the disk. After much searching, I found a java application, that has been written to work nicely with Mac OS X. It is called Universal Password Manager.

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Leopard looks really cool. But now I am finally obsolete. I have a dual G4 500 mghz. The requirements are g4, but you need to be above 857 mghz. Well, I guess I can't run an old mac forever. I've found the banter on the web over the issue of Apple not including java 6 interesting.

I think it is important to have java on the mac. Enterprise applications are often written in java. Having the mac be a viable tool to run and edit java code is important. But having said that, I also believe it will only be a matter of time for java 6 to be a standard port on the Mac.

I found the blog post that Ted Leung wrote to be very level headed.

Volitility

That's a term that is used for the stock market during turbulent times. Yesterday the market bombed. I fortunately have some Apple stock and it did well. Actually, it was just making a come back from the day before when Apple stock tumbled. There were reports out that Apple didn't sell as many iPhones as projected in the first weekend. That cause the stock to drop. But then the very next day Apple reported record revenues for the quarter. The stock went up more than a whopping $6.00 a share. [read more...]