As a number of perturbed status updates I'd posted to my Facebook profile in the wee hours of Friday morning suggested to my friends this AM, the health of my Mac Mini, Cylon.local, took a bit of a nose dive last night. Now, it's probably just a hard drive failure, which is actually not so bad [^1], but I won't know for sure until I take the little fella down to Tekserve's "ER" this weekend and get it properly diagnosed.
Tag: #fail
Sometimes events arrive with a timing that is both serendipitous and uncanny. Only days after my last post, wherein I state a case for the growing importance of referencing the datasets and algorithms used in the distillation of research conclusions, comes a story about leaked correspondence records (email messages) amongst climate researchers working in affiliation with the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, or CRU.
Microsoft has recently announced that they will be entering the retail space with their own stores. Clearly they feel a need to compete with Apple's success in their retail endeavors. But, in a seeming effort to remain depressingly consistent, they're once again stealing from the surface and ignoring the treasures below.