Archive for October, 2008
“Greening” BU
Recently, as I’m sure those unfortunate enough to eat in the dining halls are all too aware, BU has taken upon itself a “Go-Green” Initiative. Their first step was to go “tray-less” in the dining halls. “We will save hundreds of thousands of gallons of water daily that was previously used to wash 16,000 trays” [...]
Read More..>>little things/perspective
I was inspired this weekend on multiple occasions for some rather atypical and less than cynical thoughts, so naturally I combined them here, because two different posts about happy things – you might as well hold hands in a circle singing “Kum Ba Yah.”
It’s the little things in life that make it worthwhile.
I was out [...]
Macintosh is for Rich People
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/tuxgeek/2008/10/07/how-much-are-you-paying-for-being-apple/
What a great article. Tux Geek blog points out that you can build a “Hackintosh”, that is, a system capable of running Mac OSX, with very little expense or effort involved. The difference in price is at least $1000 even when considering the cost of adding bluetooth, wireless, and the overpriced memory upgrade on Apple’s [...]