There’s a new Mac OS X software update available (one that improves Macbook battery life, huzzah!). As always, there are a few simple precautions you can take to ensure a trouble-free installation:

1. Run the Repair Permissions Utility.
2. Run the Repair Repair Permissions Utility Utility.
3. Back up your Home folder, but don’t just rely on a hard drive or recordable CD/DVD. Instead, buy an inexpensive voice

The first time I tried to fix a leaky faucet, I created a geyser that wouldn’t have been out of place in Yellowstone. The plumber, when he arrived, gave me a withering glare that still haunts me in the small, dark hours of the night.It was a glare that said, “Either read some instructions, or call a professional before you flood the kitchen.” The glare paused and then added, “Idiot.”Funny… Read more...

• Green Long March
  Here’s a window on environmentalism in China: the Green Long March, which will cover 10 routes across 22 Chinese provinces and 26 nature preserves this summer.
  (tags: china environment movement activism awareness education)
• Forrester’s new Social Technographics report
  Forget the term “lurkers” (thanks, Aaron!) — this study slices online

<web rant>

If I never see this
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again in the next three lifetimes, it will be too damn soon.

</web rant&gt… Read more...

Naive guy that I am, I figured that Circuit City’s board would need a little time to recover after firing more than three thousand of its employees for earning higher wages than the company decided it wanted to pay… and then inviting them to apply for their old jobs at a fraction of what they’d been paid.

But no. From USATODAY.com:
Even as Circuit City Stores (CC)… Read more...

Now my latest social networking obsession has an anthem
Will you please rise, put your hand over the teddy bear on your PJs, and sing… Read more...

• Avoid the whole pet food issue: cook for your dog
  “Grrrrowlicious food for hungry dogs” gives you recipes that will make your mouth water, let alone your dog’s. (Fortunately, now that I’ve bailed on red meat, many are off-limits to me.)
  (tags: book recipe dog food)
• FLICK OFF: Climate change site
  A Drupal-based global

Social Signal’s astonishingly talented web services consultant, Aaron Pettigrew, is not only a kick-ass Drupal ace and a brilliant online community-builder, but also a dedicated performer… and his latest gig sounds like a blast:
Belly
April 26 – May 5, 2007

Belly is psychedelic stand-up, hosted by a comedian/sex worker with a psychic connection to Pink Floyd. Armed with jokes from the future and searching for her… Read more...