Category: off-topic

  • Amazing vid of Berkeley radical helps explain BSG

    Some years ago, I watched a great documentary called Berkeley in the Sixties that used all manner of archival footage to help explain how a bunch of middle class white kids got radical. In particular, a 1964 speech given by then 21-year-old student named Mario Savio has always stuck with me. The money quote: “There…

  • Earth to Apple – how about a webcast

    Apple makes its most important announcement in years and yet blocks everyone from watching on a webcast. It’s so 1980s…

  • This is a test of the emergency relaxation system

    This is only a test. You are booked on the last flight of the day out of Logan Airport in Boston to Miami, where the temperature is 80 degrees. A snow storm is bearing down on New England. If you don’t get out tonight, you aren’t getting out — there is no sunny beach vacation.…

  • Past writings

    My past writings for various publishers and employers can be found at aaronpressman.com, but I’m still getting the hang of adding things to the side bar along the right side of this page.

  • Apple’s keynote provided server comparison to Microsoft

    Funny side note to yesterday’s Steve Jobs speech. The folks over at Netcraft monitored how various Web sites handled the overload of surfers as Apple unveiled new products. Apple’s own site and its online store, which both run obviously on Mac OS X, held up much better under far greater loads than did the site…