Archive for May, 2009

Mac Attack: Man bites MacBook Pro OS X Leopard

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

This is my first post from Safari in OS X (10.5.4) “Leopard”.  
Sure, I thought there was a good reason to get a Mac laptop, but if you are an old Microsoft hound, there is a steep learning curve.  Things just do not work the same on the Mac.
I have had several problems, but they [...]

Once you go Mac, you never go back!

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Having a powerful laptop, for me, is essential.  And it has to be reliable too.
My Dell XPS Gen2 that I bought back in August 2005 was the most smoking-hot laptop on the market at the time I got her, bless her little heart, and she did me well for about 3.7 years, more than half [...]

The best Ex-pat Blog in Northern Mindanao

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I would say Jil used to have “the best ex-pat blog in CdO”, but Jil recently and permanently moved to Jasaan and only makes it into CdO once a week or so, so he’s really not perfectly qualified to be called the best ex-pat blogger in CdO.  Perhaps that title still belongs to me despite [...]

New MacBook Pro

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Last August 2008 my 3-year warranty expired on my Dell XPS Gen2 laptop with a 2 Ghz Centrino CPU and 2 GBs of RAM. At the time I bought it it was the hottest machine on the market, and I thought for sure in 3 years I would be able to replace it, but [...]