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Techno Bob

An Apple a day …

My Mac continues to astound me. I’ve started moving my digital photo archive into iPhoto, a very cool database approach to storing digital images. It also has a feature that makes it easy to publish a slideshow to my .Mac account. Here’s my first test, using, of course, photos of my Big Green Egg. It couldn’t have been easier to publish the photos. I need to geek around a bit to see if I can adjust a few things, but I’m impressed.

From a business perspective, Mac also gets it. They have managed to sell me a .Mac membership, and I’ve already downloaded numerous CDs and songs from their online music store. I’m buying gadgets and add-ons for my iPod. This stuff is like crack. And it’s legal.

My one disappointment was the Apple Airport Extreme wireless base station. I couldn’t get it to work in a reliable manner with my PC/Mac network, and I’m going to sell it.

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Bad Bob

Animals taste good

P1010003.jpgI see that PETA is trying to make hay over the mad cow problem. Their approach is almost hilarious. Seems they want to assure us that if we just quit eating meat, our food supply would be warm and fuzzy safe.

Here’s the bad news: More people have died in the U.S. during the past year eating vegetables, green onions, specifically, than have died of mad cow disease. Tennessee and Pittsburgh both have had nasty hepatitis outbreaks linked to bad veggies.

Guess that wouldn’t make good copy for PETA’s propaganda …

In the meantime, I’ll keep nibbling on cows and chickens and pigs.