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| On College Football 2022: Week 6 Recap and Week 7 Pre... Ken said: |
| Yeah, we've both had our share of hope and disappointment in this game. Let's just hope for a good b... |
| On College Football 2022: Week 6 Recap and Week 7 Pre... Dan* said: |
| I'm not sure how I feel about this game. On one hand, I feel pretty optimistic that we have the tale... |
| On College Football 2022: Week 1 Preview Dan* said: |
| Glad to see you'll be back writing football again, Ken! Congrats on the easy win today. You didn't ... |
| On College Football 2021: Week 10 Recap and Week 11 P... Ken said: |
| Yeah, sorry one of our teams had to lose. I've come to appreciate Penn State as a classy and sympath... |
| On College Football 2021: Week 10 Recap and Week 11 P... Dan* said: |
| Hey Ken, congratulations on the win yesterday! Some really odd choices by our coaching staff in that... |
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Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | ... | Page 6| Proof | Thursday, 2008 April 24 - 9:30 am |
| Remember this post, where I noted the recurring pattern of Apple's stock plunging after announcing first quarter results, only to have the stock completely over the course of the year? Remember when I said Wall Street investors must be idiots? The day before the announcement, on January 22nd, Apple stock closed at $159.64. The day after, on January 23rd, Apple stock plunged to $139.07. The stock eventually hit a low just under $120 per share. As of right now, Apple's stock price is $162.55. Apple's second quarter earnings report indicated a remarkable rise in Mac sales. Though iPod sales were essentially flat compared to last year, I think the Mac sales number is more important; Apple will pick up a much larger "halo effect" as new Mac owners purchase more software, accessories, and upgrades. Watch for the stock to rise considerably in the run-up to the rumored introduction of the 3G iPhone. And for those who are interested, a 3G iPhone has become a stronger possibility now that one of the two major obstacles has (according to the rumor mill) been resolved: Apple may have found a low-power chipset that will allow for 3G communication. I'm still not sure how they plan to address AT&T's poor 3G coverage; perhaps they'll still market the current iPhone for areas not covered by 3G, at a reduced price. |
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| MacBook Air | Sunday, 2008 March 16 - 11:55 am |
 For my birthday, Amy got me a MacBook Air.Now, this isn't something I would have bought for myself. It's not that I didn't want it... it's just such a luxury item, I would have felt bad getting it for myself. So in that respect, it's a perfect present: something I really want but wouldn't buy for myself. Amy was worried that I didn't like it, since it's taken me so long to blog about it. Nothing could be further from the truth... I love love love my new baby. Meet the new addition to the family, "Liesel". Read more... |
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| Blu-Ray Wins | Friday, 2008 February 15 - 11:39 am |
| Wal-Mart is expected to drop the HD-DVD format in favor of Blu-Ray soon, joining Netflix and Best Buy in backing a single high definition media standard. That's it, folks... the war is over; Blu-Ray wins (at least, until physical media is dropped altogether in favor of downloadable content). So just to be clear: a superior technology that's more expensive and backed by Sony wins out over a widely available cheaper alternative. Somewhere, the inventor of Betamax is chuckling. |
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| Genius | Tuesday, 2008 February 5 - 10:56 pm |
| Google is famous, or perhaps infamous, for its strict hiring standards and its population of brilliant employees. So it was with some interest that I read about a security vulnerability in Gmail. Apparently, if someone manages to steal a Gmail session cookie (by snooping your network traffic), they can impersonate you and access your account. The reason this is interesting to me is that here on realkato.com, I was very careful to prevent this vulnerability. I do use cookies so that you can remain logged in to the site, but the cookie is tied to the IP address you're using to log in, so it can't be used by anyone who's snooping your machine or your connection (unless they also manage to grab your IP address). Now granted, I don't use SSL on my site to further protect your connections, but that's just because I'm too cheap to pay for it, not because I didn't think about it. So I have a security feature that Gmail doesn't. Nothing against all the geniuses at Gmail, but... hey, if I thought of it, shouldn't you have, too? |
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| Microsoft to Buy Yahoo? | Saturday, 2008 February 2 - 10:51 am |
| So. Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. I can just imagine a conference room full of Microsoft executives, poring through PowerPoint slides about "synergies" and "leverage". At that level, you can see how Microsoft would be desperate to fight Google in the web search and advertising arenas. But at so many other levels, this is an odd acquisition at best. Yahoo's Linux/PHP technologies won't fit with Microsoft's Windows-based technologies. The two companies have many products that are direct competitors (instant messaging, mail, search, maps); either they'd somehow have to be mashed together, or one would have to be killed off. Culturally, Yahoo has embraced open source and open web standards. Is Microsoft looking for a way to move in that direction, or to quash it? If Microsoft were to proceed with this, I think that five years down the road, most of what we know of Yahoo would be invisible or gone. Everything you see would be covered in garish "Windows Live" dressing... exactly the kind of poorly designed, ad-burdened, proprietary, heavy-handed mess that makes people eschew Microsoft for Google and Yahoo in the first place. Analysts will look back at this purchase as an act of desperation... and a colossal, $44.6 billion mistake. |
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| Apple Posts Record Profit, Stock Plunges | Wednesday, 2008 January 23 - 11:46 am |
| Sometimes I think Wall Street investors are a bunch of idiots. Yesterday Apple announced its fiscal 2008 first quarter results: $9.61 billion in revenue, resulting in $1.58 billion profit ($1.76 per share). Compared to the same period a year ago, that represents a 54.4% increase in earnings and a 35.4% increase in revenue. Overnight, the stock lost about 13% of its value. Why? Because Apple's conservative second quarter forecast came in below expectations, and is seen as a further sign of a weakening economy. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: Additional Macworld Thoughts | Tuesday, 2008 January 15 - 3:37 pm |
| There are a few questions and observations that have popped into my head since Steve Jobs' announcements at the Macworld keynote. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: Macworld Keynote Live Blog | Tuesday, 2008 January 15 - 11:35 am |
| Well, technically, this is a live blog of other blogs covering the keynote, since I'm not at the Macworld Expo, and there's no live video feed. Recycled news, that's what we do best here at the Real Kato Online. Read more... |
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| Christmas in January! | Tuesday, 2008 January 15 - 8:37 am |
| Well, not really. It's just that I'm finally getting around to blogging about some of the stuff I got for Christmas. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: Macworld Today! | Tuesday, 2008 January 15 - 8:02 am |
| Well, the big Macworld Expo keynote is today, and Jobs is widely expected to announce the "MacBook Air", a subnotebook. Also expected is an iTunes movie rental agreement with several major studios. Here's how I think it will go: - News about Mac OS X Leopard - News about the iPhone, and the upcoming development kit - News about AppleTV enhancements, and the movie rental announcement - Brief recap on the new Mac Pro and XServe - Announcement of the MacBook Air - One more thing? Live blog starting at noon EST. |
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| Apple Watch: New Mac Pro and XServe Models | Wednesday, 2008 January 9 - 9:29 am |
| Apple announced speed bumps to the Mac Pro and the XServe, a week in advance of the MacWorld Expo. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: 2008 Predictions | Wednesday, 2008 January 2 - 10:17 pm |
| It's that time of year again! Here's a look back at my 2007 predictions, and a look ahead at 2008. Read more... |
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| Commodore 64 is 25 Years Old | Tuesday, 2007 December 11 - 11:14 am |
| Wow. And I missed the celebration. I already wrote about the good old Commodore 64 a while ago, but there's one thing I didn't talk about, and that's the Apple II vs. Commodore 64 "war" that went on at the time... at least, among us geeks. I was firmly on the Commodore 64 side; I mean, I always remembered the Apple II as having weird four-color graphics, with entirely too much purple, cyan, and green.  Whereas, the Commodore 64 had 16-color graphics, hardware support for animated sprites, and the best sound chip of any computer on the market at the time.  Man, I did love that old computer. I still haven't finished that project to copy all my old programs onto DVD... maybe now that the Great Blog Migration project is essentially done, I'll have some time for that. |
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| About the iPhone Price Cut | Thursday, 2007 September 6 - 10:29 pm |
| Free money from Apple! Even for those of us who are not outraged. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: iPod Announcements | Wednesday, 2007 September 5 - 10:00 pm |
| Here's the big news from today's Apple media event. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: iLife '08, iWork '08 | Wednesday, 2007 August 8 - 11:06 am |
| Apple's new software announcements from yesterday. Also, a couple of other hardware announcements. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: New iMacs, New Minis | Tuesday, 2007 August 7 - 10:26 pm |
| Here's the rundown today's new hardware announcements. (I'll post info on the new iLife and iWork releases tomorrow.) Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: Tuesday Special Event | Monday, 2007 August 6 - 10:07 pm |
| New iMacs tomorrow? That's the rumor. Read more... |
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| iPhone Followup | Saturday, 2007 July 7 - 12:02 am |
| Observations on day five of the iPhone. Read more... |
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| iPhone OMG iPhone | Monday, 2007 July 2 - 9:20 pm |
| OMG OMG OMG. Read more... |
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| iPhone Day Approaches | Thursday, 2007 June 28 - 11:42 pm |
| iPhone. iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone. Read more... |
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| PCs? Still Suck. | Monday, 2007 June 18 - 11:55 pm |
| The myth of the PC advantage. Read more... |
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| Vista? Still Sucks. | Monday, 2007 June 18 - 11:32 pm |
| You can put lipstick on a pig... Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: WWDC Analysis | Wednesday, 2007 June 13 - 12:04 am |
| Thoughts on Apple's announcements. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: WWDC Rumor Roundup | Sunday, 2007 June 10 - 11:15 am |
| Also, a quick look at Parallels Desktop version 3.0. Read more... |
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| Quiet Computing | Sunday, 2007 June 10 - 10:30 am |
| How I made my PowerMac G4 quieter. Read more... |
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| Video Signals | Thursday, 2007 June 7 - 11:24 pm |
| A public service information article on video signals and cables. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: MacBook Pro Update, ZFS Thoughts | Thursday, 2007 June 7 - 10:17 pm |
| Apple introduces updated MacBook Pro laptops, and Sun lets it slip that Leopard will include ZFS. Read more... |
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| Microsoft Milan | Thursday, 2007 May 31 - 8:12 pm |
| Microsoft introduces technology that's almost, dare I say, cool. Read more... |
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| All Your Movie Are Belong to Us | Tuesday, 2007 May 15 - 9:20 pm |
| A web site of free movies. How can this possibly be legal? Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: Updated MacBooks | Tuesday, 2007 May 15 - 9:09 pm |
| A year after their initial introduction, MacBooks get a minor update. Read more... |
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| What Manner of Idiocy is This? | Thursday, 2007 May 10 - 7:39 pm |
| A company is threatening to sue Apple, Microsoft, Real Networks, and Adobe for not using its DRM product. Read more... |
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| The AACS Key! | Friday, 2007 May 4 - 8:52 am |
| Pandora's box is open. Read more... |
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| CSS Irritation | Friday, 2007 May 4 - 8:06 am |
| Who out there is a web designer? Maybe you can relate to this statement: whoever wrote the spec for CSS DIV positioning should be shot. Read more... |
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| KSR vs. Teleflex | Wednesday, 2007 May 2 - 9:43 pm |
| A recent Supreme Court ruling may have significant implications for the tech industry. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: On the Leopard Delay | Wednesday, 2007 April 18 - 7:29 am |
| It's not the end of the world. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: AppleTV, DRM-less Music, and Rumors | Tuesday, 2007 April 3 - 8:56 am |
| AppleTV reviews and hacks roll in; Apple and EMI announce sales of DRM-less music, and rumors about upcoming products. Read more... |
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| Work Update | Tuesday, 2007 April 3 - 8:34 am |
| A rare glimpse into the fascinating world of telecom geekery. Read more... |
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| More Vintage Computing | Monday, 2007 January 15 - 9:18 pm |
| Commodore 64? Remember the Commodore 64? Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: iPhone, AppleTV | Wednesday, 2007 January 10 - 9:51 am |
| Yesterday's MacWorld announcements. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: 2007 Predictions | Monday, 2007 January 1 - 12:48 pm |
| Recap of 2006 predictions, and new predictions for 2007. Read more... |
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| Vintage Computing | Monday, 2006 November 13 - 8:52 am |
| This weekend's dealings with my collection of old computers. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: MacBook (Non-Pro) With Core 2 Duo | Thursday, 2006 November 9 - 9:26 am |
| A quiet update to the MacBook came yesterday. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: MacBook Pro, Now With Core 2 Duo | Wednesday, 2006 October 25 - 5:55 am |
| On Tuesday, Apple rolled out improvements to its MacBook Pro line of notebooks. Read more... |
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| Quick Notes | Friday, 2006 October 6 - 9:16 am |
| A note about next year's Vegas trip (maybe), and news about my Mac. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: The MacBook WiFi Exploit Controversy | Monday, 2006 October 2 - 9:38 am |
| In a discussion about an alleged security hole in Apple's wireless networking drivers, name-calling and unprofessionalism abounds. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: September 12th Announcements | Thursday, 2006 September 14 - 7:25 am |
| A completely revamped iPod lineup, movies for sale, and a surprise future product. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: New iMacs and Mac Minis | Thursday, 2006 September 7 - 8:42 am |
| Apple announces upgrades to their consumer desktop line. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: Rumors | Monday, 2006 September 4 - 9:07 pm |
| There's supposedly a special media event coming from Apple on September 12th. Read more... |
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| Apple Watch: WWDC Announcements | Tuesday, 2006 August 8 - 11:10 pm |
| Two major announcements: new Mac Pros, and a preview of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". Read more... |
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