Archive for June, 2005

My Complicated Amazon PowerBook Deal

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

I finally bought my PowerBook — it’s been about 6 years since I bought a Mac.
Those who know me know that I will go to great lengths to get a deal. I was especially concerned with this purchase because I figure that with the Intel transition, prices will drop a lot over the next year. […]

Switching to WordPress

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Now that this blog has over a hundred subscribers and has received multiple awards, I think it’s time to move onto something more sophisticated than blosxom. I’m moving over to WordPress. The old feed will still work. If you are a subscriber to the old feed, you’ll probably see reruns of previous entries, then things […]

Local Geek Becomes Local Mac Geek (Again)

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

Note: This embarassingly self-absorbed message is a parody of this other embarassingly self-absorbed message from 7+ years ago:
http://www.scottkleper.com/crossplatform.txt
Local Geek Becomes Local Mac Geek (Again)

06/07/05 San Francisco, CA — Scott J. Kleper, reluctant security architect and PADI-certified scuba diver, announced today his intention to return to the Macintosh community. The announcement comes nearly eight years after […]

Beware of Paunchy Men in Tuxedoes at Juice Club

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

When I was a freshman at Stanford, there was no greater off-campus pleasure than a trip to Juice Club (now Jamba Juice). Since I didn’t have a car or an overwhelming desire to walk, these trips were infrequent, but always memorable. One trip was more memorable than the rest.

On May 11, 1996, I went to […]