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After an empty week, I’m looking forward to Grendel: Behold the Devil #2. #1 ripped it up nicely. I’m going to browse Conan: Frost Daughter and if that looks good I’m going to check that one out, too.

Sorry, it’s been a while! Great week this week. I talked to the guys who make Atomic Robo at the Big Apple Con a couple of weeks ago, and have read the first two issues. Hilarious, smart writing and great art with vibrant colors. This is definitely worth a pick up. The we have Sienkiewicz’s new 30 Days; The end of Brian K. Vaughan’s awesome run on Buffy, and Omega the Unknown #3 — which I’ve seen some complaints about it being to cerebral or something out there. I’m enjoying the quiet mystery of it.  

Looking good this week! Finally, I’m going to dig into Wil Eisner’s work on the Spirit. Also, the conclusion of Green Arrow Year 1 and Beowulf.

Apple’s quarterly results put some muscle behind my theory that it is gaining on the strength of the Mac’s full compatibility with Windows and the result that it can participate in the Windows Network Effects and benefit from being a competitor in the same compatibility space. These guys think that it’s one of five reasons Leopard will be a tipping point for Apple. I think Apple is already past the tipping point with Leopard being the lynchpin to hold it in place. An 8.1% share of the US computer market is strong evidence. Yes, the halo effect is working. But the key part for the Mac sales increase is the ability to run Windows, without it the halo effect wouldn’t succeed. Whether or not many people actually use Windows is an open question. I suspect many don’t, but it’s the comfort that you could if you had to that lead people to switch to the Mac.

A little late on this posting. But today’s the day! ComiXology had a podcast with Rich Starking’s on Elephantmen #11 which was very interesting. I’m looking forward to them starting up again.

Good looking week this week! ComiXology is featuring a podcast on Captain Carrot with Scott Shaw and Bill Morrison. I really want the Runaways Zombie variant cover if I can find it. And Jeff Smith’s Shazam looks great.

When I tried to print thirty separate Word documents at school today, I found that the printer I chose to send my document to was not working – and all that time I spent printing from Word seemed wasted. Ugh.

When  you print on OS X, it opens up a printer queue that lists the files you are printing. If the printer is not working, the files just sit there in the list, teasing you. First, I thought that maybe I could find where those files were stored. But then I thought, hey, maybe I can drag them to another printer queue…yes! You can drag printed files from one printer queue (in this case, the one that wasn’t working) into another printer queue, and it will print! No re-printing necessary.

This also led me to figure out a trick to printing secured PDFs that force you to print to the default printer (and not to a PDF writer) so I can read and highlight the text on my computer, and not print it out. (I leave it to you to figure out how I do that, as I’m fairly certain it breaks a user agreement or two.) Thanks, Apple!

It’s a big week this week! Break out the mortgage!

Short and sweet this week:

Wil Shipley has an excellent post on Apple and it’s recent anti-consumer business decisions. I hope they read it. (thanks to dfbills for the tip)