Category Archives: Technology

Post-it note trick for Mac slot drive

I got so much traffic from my iPod write-up that I thought I’d mention a trick I discovered several years ago. When I had my brand-spanking-new anodized aluminum 12″ Powerbook just a few months in the spring of 2003, I put an irregular-shaped CD in the slot drive and it got stuck. (The CD was [...]

Google Earth

I’m a bit bemused to find that someone is trying to hack into my Google Earth account. I received an email yesterday from the product’s authentication server indicating that someone was requesting a temporary password for the account. The IP address of the offender is in Chicago. I can’t imagine why anyone would do that. [...]

Krucoff

Allow me to be the last person to write about Krucoff’s dismissal from Conde Nast as a result of “leaking” an email to Gawker. As the person who introduced Andrew to the Gawker Media crowd in 2003, I take full responsibility for the utter destruction of his life in the intervening two and a half [...]

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