Yeah, you. Close your eyes. Well, you’re reading, so think about closing your eyes. And relaxing. Find a clear moment to sit in. Got it? Ok. Now. Imagine your computer is going to betray you. Your precious ally, your confident, is about to give up the ghost. Visualize losing all your bookmarks on your computer. Now envision your precious digital photos, all your birthdays and anniversaries, poof. Your address book, filled with 7 years of addresses of friends and family, some contacts you only have here and in no other place. Those Word documents, the ones you typed out. Work you spent days on. All your itunes music, bought and…

My Apple Airport Base Station gave up the ghost a week ago. I knew it was time to start looking for alternatives. I found it needed to be reset several times for no reason. Just red lights on the front panel saying, “Something wicked this way comes”. But being more than 4 years old at least, I was psyched to update the thing anyway. Apple has a nice interface for configuring a home network (I need to use port forwarding to get my newton server online. I wish it had some fundamental features that all wireless routers seem to lack (like a simple way to see if you are handing…

Recently, Brad Suinn from Apple took down his own personal .mac home pages where he has worked for quite a while, amassing info on the vagaries of ASIP and how to navigate its less than documented waters. It got me thinking about the passage of time, and what it means for Mac Managers. I emailed him when I saw something about it in the ASIP mailing list. I stay on the list, even though I’m working with and interested now in ASIP’s big brother, Mac OS X Server. He emailed back, and I won’t say what he said, since Apple is just this side of Big Brother, just that he…