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Why is Safari using 97 percent of my CPU?

The last few days of my MacBook Air have been a little wonky. I couldn't figure it out until today when I noticed that Safari was using anywhere from 90-97 percent of my CPU. I also noticed a few times when the CPU was running over 100 percent.

Please note that I was using Microsoft Office, but I didn't feel good about it. We have a board meeting tomorrow and I needed to review some stuff. I still can't figure out how to get the formula bar where I want it in Excel 2008 and it makes … Read more

45 pages of billionaires that are not you or me

In case you needed a little something to drive yourself over the edge of depression, have a look at 45 pages of billionaires that are not you, over on Forbes.com.

If in fact, I am incorrect and I have a billionaire reader of this blog, please note that I would like a solid gold house.

Off-topic: I survived a day without email or blogs!

While I was at the Dow Jones Venture One conference yesterday I was in total black hole of technology. I couldn't get on the wifi network and my Crackberry was caught in some kind of death spiral.

Miraculously, I survived the whole day with no email, minimal news and no blogging. And I have to say that I really enjoyed it. I long for the day when I can just carry a normal cellphone and don't have to be a robot.

This leads me to a bigger point, which is that I, like many others really have to … Read more

Crazy Apple Rumors Site on hold indefinitely

Much like the career of Jennifer fricking Connelly, perhaps the best source of Apple-inspired humor on the Internet is going on hiatus.

John Moltz, the editor of Crazy Apple Rumors Site, announced Tuesday that come Friday, he'll be taking a break from the daily grind of satirizing everything there is to satirize in the Apple universe. Moltz confirmed in an e-mail that after six years of CARS, he realized it was time to pause, reflect, and scour the earth for signs that the Cyber Apocalypse is re-emerging.

CARS, for the uninitiated, is a combination of faux "rumors" … Read more

Where do your blog posts go?

Wired has a great interactive info-graphic on the path blog posts take once you hit the "go" button.

You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you've written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate … Read more

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See CNET at Macworld 2008, grill me Thursday

Please allow me to indulge in a little self-promotion on behalf of my employer, which issues me paychecks that keep me in beer and high-definition sports channels.

If you're on the show floor this week at Macworld, head over to booth No. 4810 in the West Hall of the Moscone Center and say hi to CNET's cadre of Apple writers and editors. I'll be there this afternoon from 4 p.m. until 4:03 p.m. closing time, so stop by if you've always wanted to say hello, or if you've been waiting for months … Read more

Open Season Episode 9: Adobe on open source

I spent all of last week working on Mule product announcements (please to enjoy the world's first open source SOA Governance Platform) and the new MuleSource website which left nary little time for blogging.

However, we did manage to find time to record the latest episode of Open Season. This time we touched on Adobe's OSS works, Red Hat's new CEO and the realm of the Mule.

And yes, I do want a new MacBook Air.

The only Web 2.0 book you need to read (Sarah Lacy's book is on sale now)

UPDATED: January 14, 2008 5:30pm The book isn't actually available until May! Web 3.0 and 4.0 should be in flight by then.

My pal Sarah Lacy's book about Web 2.0 "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" is now on sale on Amazon.com. I have been giving her grief about the stupidity of Web 2.0 since she has been writing this magic tome, but I have to offer my sincere congratulations to her for cranking this sucker … Read more

Why does WebEx not work right on Mac OS Leopard?

I am in the middle of a week of meetings and presentations and I am getting borked by WebEx no matter what browser I use. My machine at home is running Tiger and WebEx seems to work OK but I am getting killed here with Leopard. Anybody seen this problem?

On the positive side, Parallels is making it happen for me despite the fact that I have to reboot after a few hours. Stephen O'Grady at Red Monk told me that Connect rules and even runs on Linux but I haven't tried it yet.

Off to install Parallels … Read more