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Wake Machine enables Time Machine to backup to a target that is sleeping. Without Wake Machine, such backups will fail because the remote disk won’t mount.

Time Machine is a great backup solution for Mac users, but backups will fail if the backup disk is attached to a sleeping computer on the network. This utility fixes that problem by sending a WOL “magic packet” to wake the remote computer before the backup begins.

A way to install MySQL via MacPorts on Snow Leopard

This is the Facebook app that I propose somebody make for people who engage in socially pathetic trifles:

Burdening scooterists is a giant step backwards for Massachusetts.

Having your heart in the right place is not enough. Those who lobby for equal rights would be wise to learn Rustin’s lesson quickly now so that they don’t have to learn it slowly and painfully later.

You can move your iTunes library without losing any statistics or other metadata.

It’s difficult to evaluate how 9/11 changed me because it came at a time when I was politically dizzy. I could have stumbled in any of several directions, but the overwhelming magnitude of 9/11 cast my interests towards terrorism and the Middle East, naturally. I pondered the relative weight of national security in my list of political priorities. Was it too low? I wondered if either party had their heads in the right place, or if we were surely fucked. It was a traumatic time for me, in part because it was my first experience of such human destruction, and in part because I was wholly ignorant with regard to foreign affairs, and thus I had no substantive ideological grounding.

The worst of road experiences need to end with a honk, a yell, or if you must, an inappropriate hand gesture. You can show your anger without putting lives on the line.

After many years on Windows, I jumped ship and got a Mac. Here’s why.

Sad, disappointing, heartbreaking. Such adjectives don’t do justice to the Liberal Lion. I have to defer to Michael Long of the National Review, whose story speaks louder than any words I can summon.

Upon finding my blog (I sent him a link), my Great Uncle Morris voiced disagreement.

Over the past few weeks I’ve found myself more and more frustrated with the political coverage presented in the NY Times. I can reluctantly tolerate Paul Krugman abandoning his great economic pieces to pursue less-than-apt political ones; I know that columnists will be columnists and the op/ed section of any newspaper is going to be a bit more impassioned come election time. But when research and the reporting of events and quotations loses its objectivity, there is no longer worth to a publication.

An e-cquaintance and I have started a campaign aimed at convincing Al Gore to publicly endorse Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential bid.

Among the highlights from Jon Brion’s New Year’s Eve show was an impromptu impression of Bruce Springsteen–in the form of a fake Bruce Springsteen song.

Never before have I gone into an event with such high expectations, and never before have those expectations been so far surpassed.

Removing “My Bluetooth Places” from your desktop is easy but hidden. Here’s what to do.

Getting Google’s Gmail client up and running on the Palm TX is both quick and easy.

No matter how you cut it, modern technology has helped the musician at the expense of the executive producer. The profits to be had in the years to come are going to come from live performances, not from album sales. Musicians will need plenty of help planning their tours and selling out amphitheaters, but the album has finally been set into its rightful hand: that of the creator, the musician.

Any Verizon customer can tell you the company mantra: if the customer wants it, make them pay for it. Verizon’s mobile web is no exception: by disallowing the user to change certain settings on the LG VX8600 phone, they effectively force him to use Verizon’s mobile web service, or none at all. Long story short: [...]