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    Another Reality Check: Tall Tales You Can Ignore!

    August 12th, 2009

    One thing quiet evident in this country’s seemingly endless debate about health care, and that is there is no statement false enough that will prevent it from being uttered over and over again if it serves the cause. So, for example, we have some supposedly astute political observers spewing forth nonsense about an alleged “death […]


    Newsletter #506 Preview: Isn’t it Time for the
    Mac Media to Stop Using the Word “Mac”?

    August 9th, 2009

    In the days of the Apple II, magazines devoted to these pioneering personal computers would generally have the word “Apple” as an intrinsic part of the title. Well, it stands to reason, particularly since that was pretty much all Apple Computer was about in those days. It’s also quite logical that, when the Mac appeared, […]


    The Night Owl Reveals Apple’s Plot to Control the PC Industry!

    July 23rd, 2009

    I am sometimes accused of writing lurid headlines just for the effect or the higher hit counts. I don’t agree. The headlines always relate to the content, and in this case, my theory is right on the money. What’s more, recent figures based on retail sales of new PCs from the NPD Group confirm the […]


    Are Computers Getting Too Fast?

    May 28th, 2009

    When Bill Gates, bless his crooked soul, said years ago that we’d never need more than 640K of RAM, he kind of had the right idea in mind, but he was perhaps a few decades early in expressing this thought. When Steve Jobs said, with the introduction of the original Power Macintosh G4, that we […]