Posted on October 1, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Since there has been so much clamor for a fable, here’s a post I was already working on cleverly re-worked as “a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral”1
Once there was a dorky man named Mister Gates. He wrote software on punch cards. Everyone thought he was a geek, but they were [...]
Posted on September 30, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Once upon a time there was a beautiful computer company who lived in the magic valley far to the west. And this computer company made graceful, elegant, useful machines that everyone loved. True, it was hard to develop software for the beautiful computer because the beautiful company only wanted beautiful software. And true, the beautiful [...]
Posted on September 25, 2008 at 6:54 am
11:15pm, Day one - My Hotel Room: Finish talking with wife on iChat. Set alarm on cell phone to wake me up at 6:00AM.
3:25 am, Day two - My Hotel Room: Dream that cats have taken over planet. All requests for food are must be phrased in the form of “I can has soup?” (really)1
6:30 [...]
Posted on August 25, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Microsoft feels that the best way to counteract the market’s move towards Apple products is to hire Jerry Seinfeld to appear with Bill Gates1 in an attempt to get people to take Vista seriously.
Well, this makes perfect sense to us here at CANS. I mean, look at how much Apple’s stock has gone up in [...]
Posted on August 11, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Ladies and gentlemen1, we are just as pleased as punch to bring you our first ever Guest Editorial, and boy do we have a great one to start out with. Yes, today we are proud to publish wit and wisdom from beyond the grave. We present the undead father of Open Source, a great man [...]
Posted on July 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm
With the release of the iPhone 3G, we were excited to read Walt Mossberg’s review of the new and improved hardware and software offerings from Apple. As he has with so many other new releases, Walt praised the iPhone in general and the App Store specifically, but we wanted more.I mean, look at his [...]
Posted on July 27, 2008 at 6:34 am
Every Sunday1 we publish a list of inFrequently Asked Questions and answers to help
you, the Crazy Apple user, get more out of your Crazy Apple products.
Today: The person who just installed our carpet2 answers your questions about using DSL to connect a Mac to the internet.
Q: I’ve heard that cable is faster than DSL, is [...]
Posted on July 12, 2008 at 11:30 am
As an apology for not posting the Friday iFAQ on Friday, I present to you: Vista Bullying
In a widely reported move,1 Microsoft has announced that the “Vista Bullying stops here”. And we here at CANS think it’s about time, too. I mean, look at poor little Microsoft, barely making enough money to keep every single [...]