Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Lately I've been using "Groove" a fair amount. I finally paid for a copy, even though there's no Mac version, in the hope that I could convince my department at work to use it instead of doing all our communication through a single overburdened Lotus Notes mailing list. In the past I had trouble fetching a shared space from my office computer to my home computer, but I finally figured out the problem. I was logging out of my account on my work computer when I went home (a perfectly natural thing to do), but Groove can't initially fetch a shared space from a logged-out computer. All I had to do was log in on that computer via PC Anywhere, and the space was fetched. Once a space has initially been fetched, syncing works just fine regardless of whether both accounts are logged in or not. 7:17:08 PM    comment () US rejects Iran nuclear denial. Washington dismisses Iran's denials that it is trying to develop nuclear weapons or harbouring al-Qaeda fugitives. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] It's starting to look like Iran will be the next target for "liberation" instead of Syria. 1:40:11 PM    comment () Salaam. We're finishing a new issue of Tekka. Lots of great things. One of the latest developments is a really exciting photo-essay from Baghdad and Iraq, including an in-person interview with Iraqi weblogger Salaam Pax. [Mark Bernstein] Here's an interesting crossover. I've been reading "Salam Pax"'s weblog for some time, and Mark Bernstein is the author of "Tinderbox", the really nice "Swiss Army Knife for text" sort of app I recently learned about. 1:37:56 PM    comment () Ambrosia releases 'Uplink' computer hacker game. Ambrosia Software Inc. has announced the release of the Mac conversion of Uplink, a game set in the near future, in the world of high-tech computer crime and Internet-based industrial espionage. You're hired by companies to hack into their rivals' computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging their information, laundering money, erasing evidence and framing innocent civilians. You can use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems and buy new software and tools. In turn, you can engage in more dangerous, albeit more profitable, activities. [MacCentral] I downloaded this game as soon as I read about it. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but every other Ambrosia title I've tried has been excellent so I have high hopes. 12:05:05 PM    comment () Adobe ships Acrobat 6.0 product line [The Macintosh News Network] Unfortunately there's no Mac version, only Windows and OS X. 8:56:37 AM    comment ()

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