Date archive for November, 2009
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Death of an AT&T DSL Modem (Video)
The fully deserved death of a barely working AT&T DSL broadband modem in Chicago. By Hammer. On video. Any questions?
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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad ‘Burbs?
One of the things I shouted loudest when I first began Chicago Carless four-and-a-half years ago no longer applies. Back in mid-2005, I still carried around my New-York-native anti-surburban bias. On recent reflection, it’s time to let the suburbs have their due. At least in Chicago.
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I’m Not a Mac #6–OS X Elements I’d Like to Take With Me
But there are elements of Mac OS X I love. They won’t motivate me to stick with the operating system, but I’d sure like to take them with me when I finish migrating to a new OS. Primary among them is Time Machine, Apple’s point-and-click, behind-the-scenes backup functionality.
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“Here’s a lesson from the media…” –Bill Leff, WGN Radio (Update)
(Update 2/23/10) Today, Bill Leff relinquished his weekend gig as host of WGN’s ChicagoNow Radio. Here’s a look back at my experience with Leff and his former radio show from last November. Back then, an angry Leff told me I was ‘replaceable’ a minute before air time. Ah, karma.
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Logo or Penis?: Oak Park’s New Phallic Symbol
An out-of-state community-branding consultant proposes a new Oak Park, Illinois, visitors bureau logo for the upscale, west-suburban town that looks a lot like…well…a phallus.
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The Oak Park Penis: Does the Village’s New Logo Look Like a Phallus?
What would you do if your municipal branding consultant suggested at a public board meeting that your town’s new logo look like a penis? If you live in Oak Park, Illinois, this isn’t a hypothetical question.
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I’m Not a Mac #5–What Windows Users Think of Mac Users (Video)
Many of them have expressed shock, anger, and in the case of the AngryMacBastards podcast, a desire to ‘put a bullet’ in my head for writing publicly about my disillusionment with Apple Computer.
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Yesterday Robert Feder Opened His Mouth to Change His Feet
This week, former Chicago Sun-Times TV columnist Robert Feder (@robertfeder) managed to stick his foot in his mouth while sticking his tongue in his cheek. The usually scrappy Feder slapped down ChicagoNow’s new WGN-AM Radio weekly show from the pulpit of his own new blog at the web-centric Vocalo Radio. Boy, could I say something about that. But fellow blogger Alexander Russo, the nationally prominent scribe of the popular District 299 Chicago Public Schools watchdog blog, got there first.
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I’m Not a Mac #4–Control Issues: Why Apple Doesn’t Want You to Use Linux
I dove into Linux at the suggestion of several commenters who urged me to take a look at the open-source end of the OS world before deciding to go over to the Microsoft dark side. Why not? I figured. One-half of my goal is never again to have to pay several hundred extra dollars for specially branded hardware just to run my OS of choice, and the other half is to remove myself from Steve Jobs’ heavy-handed control of the applications I choose to install there.
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No Toaster Oven for You: Where Are Chicago’s Gay Wedding Planners?
Gay wedding and commitment-ceremony planning is big business on both coasts. So why is it so hard to find an out and proud gay wedding planner in Chicago?
