Category Archives: Rants

Palm Is Already Dead

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Adam Tow

The rumors and articles predicting a Palm buyout have only intensified in recent days. What I don’t understand is why any company would consider purchasing Palm. Don’t they already know that it’s been dead for the past five years? Sure, … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal, Palm, Rants, Technology | 9 Comments

Eating Out Every Day Can Be Unhealthy

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Adam Tow

Looks like Chinese food is in the crosshairs for restaurant foods that are unhealthy. The Center for Science in the Public Interest released a report declaring the typical Chinese menu is loaded with calories, saturated fats and sodium. A few … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal, Rants | 5 Comments

Reading Between the Lines

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Adam Tow

If you’ve been following the Ted Haggard scandal, you’ve got to read this article, published in May, 2005, in Harper’s Magazine. Soldiers of Christ has some of the most delicious and prescient ironies on Haggard that I’ve encountered while following … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal, Rants | 1 Comment

WTF? Landis Positive A Test

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Adam Tow

This is not what I wanted to hear when I heard that one rider tested positive during the Tour de France last week. Floyd Landis tested a positive A sample following the 17th stage, when he single-handlely decimated the peloton … Continue reading →

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Chapeau Landis!

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Adam Tow

What an amazing Tour de France this year! This was easily the most exciting race since 1989 and 2003, with the race changing leads a record-tying eleven times. Landis truly deserves this race after proving to everyone that it’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal, Rants, Tour de France | 4 Comments

Photo Loss!

Posted on May 4, 2006 by Adam Tow

Something extraordinary happened this evening. I apparently lost photos on my camera! I hadn’t transferred the contents of my 4GB Hitachi MicroDrive from my EOS 1D Mark II since Saturday evening. I attended Amy and Jeremy’s wedding on Saturday and … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal, Photography, Rants | 8 Comments

Search Engine Spam

Posted on May 1, 2006 by Adam Tow

I was doing a Technorati search on Sharpcast, and I came across several sites that look like blogs but whose content is decidely spam-like. It’s clear from reading the entries on the site there’s no real person behind the curtain. … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal, Rants, Technology | 2 Comments

Aperture and 6600 video card

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Adam Tow

I have noticed that certain operations on my Quad PowerMac with Aperture 1.1 seem slower than they did with Aperture 1.0 or 1.0.1. I think I’ve found the culprit, the Nvida GeForce 6600 video card. I’ve found several threads on … Continue reading →

Posted in Aperture, Journal, Photography, Rants | 3 Comments

You’re doing a hecuva job

Posted on November 3, 2005 by Adam Tow

This is a not the role model for effective leadership. More analysis of Michael Brown’s abilities.

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Comment Spam

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Adam Tow

I finally got around to installing SecureImage to deal with comment spam. I had been using SpamKarma for some time until it started spewing PHP warnings all over the place. We’ll see how well the new system works to prevent … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants, tow.com | 3 Comments