A Blog About Nothing

Posted on May 15, 2008 by mvrankin

Tonight was the 10th anniversary of the last episode of Seinfeld (and coincidentally, the last call for Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra). I always got a kick out seeing the Mac in the background of Seinfeld’s apartment, and how he silently “upgraded” each year to Apple’s latest and greatest. In the final season, Jerry even had [...]

Filed under: Adobe, InDesign, Page Layout, Photoshop, Quark XPress, XML | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

The Attack of Captain Buzzkill and the Pancake People

Posted on April 11, 2008 by mvrankin

Sounds like the name of a cheesy ’50s horror flick. But actually, it’s my nickname for the book I just finished, The Big Switch by Nick Carr.

I first mentioned him and the book in a post a couple weekends ago. I like my crazy title because Carr documents some futuristic doomsday scenarios that that are [...]

Filed under: Books | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »