Thursday, 29 August 2002

New Computer Speakers From Harman-Kardon. Check out Harman-Kardon’s new Creature speakers, that join their SoundSticks, Sonnet and Champagne computer speaker ranges. 10:22:32 AM    Add a comment.

Chance Discovery of A Pretty Good Store. I was wandering the streets of Leederville while waiting for the Ghost World screening time the other day when I came upon a food and liquor store that has some of the things that I so badly miss from the food shops in Leichhardt, the Italian part of Sydney where I used to live.       This store had plenty of big jars of anchovies instead of those mean and tiny little cans and tiny tiny little jars that all the other stores have here, and they have a decent selection of Barilla pasta as well several more expensive premium brands, in the big bags instead of the little boxes. They did not have my favourite Barilla pasta there though—Spaccatelle. I will have to take a bag down to the store and ask them to get it in for me, so I can really stock up.       Spaccatelle is perfect to go with Puttanesca sauce. The pasta looks like a Neapolitan hooker’s ultra-long fingernails. And Puttanesca sauce, made with anchovies, capers and olives amongst other things, is whore’s sauce.       The store even had big big jars of Rose Hip Jam, and other odd Bulgarian jams that I really like. The store is named The Re Store, and it is in Oxford Street, Leederville, some distance away from all the other shops and the cinema.       The only downer is that the prices are a fifth to a quarter more than those in the same kind of stores in the east. Of course, all food is expensive in Perth. Some shops around here, like the one down the road that is open on Sundays and at nights, and that is always full of poor people and pensioners, charge up to a third more than other supermarkets in the area for many common products and the range of goods is even worse. 9:13:48 AM    Add a comment.

Gary Krakow of MSNBC Also Evaluates Jaguar. “I really like Apple’s OS X. I think Apple has done a wonderful job of combining the best of their user-friendly operating system with powerful Unix-based underpinnings. But previous versions of OS X haven’t been very helpful in allowing me to do work on the Microsoft network at my office. Apple says OS X Jaguar will change all that. I wanted to see if that was true.” 8:58:24 AM    Add a comment.

Charles Haddad on Jaguar. “The good old days are here again: The new version of OS X once more gives Macs clear superiority in operating systems,” says Charless Haddad of BusinessWeek online. 8:50:22 AM    Add a comment.