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This is funny. A website dedicated to the soap opera that is Apple. Done with love, no doubt. .< 6:49:46 PM  >Paul Palinkas: "2 days to Macworld San Francisco. The only significant thing that will occur during your pathetic lifetime."  [Scripting News]
My favourite Apple hype page. I suppose I should archive the real ones for comparison in the future. But I'll let someone else do that! .< 6:38:16 PM >Thestar.com/Terror suspect alleges Canadian conspiracy Galati claims the respondents ïFD1 which include Canada's justice minister, RCMP, CSIS and the government of France ïFD1 "engaged in an unlawful conspiracy to convict him, in absentia, as `pay back' for refusing to spy for Moroccan, French and Canadian secret (security) forces based on race, religion and political targeting of (Ouzghar) as a Canadian of Arab-Muslim origin." .< 6:33:11 PM >Hmmm. I think I just heard my first audio ad on a website. I was reading a page at Ziff Davis when I heard a voice say "How do I handle new data centres when the ones I have are so tough to manage." Ooh la la. Yes, I can see that there's an hp ad with a speaker icon. Impressive in one way. Scarey in another. .< 6:32:08 PM >Behind the Macworld Expo Veil While I personally believe that next week's pyrotechnics will focus on blowing out current desktop Macs, I won't rule out the possibility that Apple is ready to reveal the next steps of its handheld-computing road map. Here's a more level headed look at what might be coming next Monday. .< 6:21:53 PM >The draft designs for the euro banknotes The draft designs for the euro banknotes
Oh, and here are the Euros. I'm not sure why I'm so interested in this. .< 6:18:34 PM >Dutch Money: Banknotes Perfect. I was talking about how beautiful Dutch money was before the Euro. Have a look for yourself. .< 6:07:44 PM >iWalk Looks More Like iWish At first glance, the videos look authentic. But to the eyes of many Mac fans -- who are gathering in their hordes at discussion boards and rumor sites, trying to guess what's causing Apple to make swaggering claims about what will be released at Macworld next week -- the pictures and videos seem fishy. Things are getting out of hand! But my gosh it sure is fun. .< 1:35:36 AM >I'm not able to connect to Canuck this evening. I got in briefly this afternoon but had a post 10.1.2 install kernal panic and haven't been able to get back in since. Coincidence I'm sure but frustrating nonetheless. .< 1:30:45 AM >Virtual PC Is Virtually Perfect You can load DOS, Linux, OS 2, Windows 2000, 95, 98, ME, XP Home and Pro, and of course OS X and Mac OS 9. You can run any combination; RAM is the only limiting factor. While this trick has other uses, the popular purpose is to impress people who have trouble running just one operating system on their PC. And it really is impressive. OK, I picked the fun quote. But read on. There is some really impressive and wonderfully useful stuff in there that seems to make running Windows on your Mac better than running it on your PC. But then there's the minor issue of speed. Ahem. .< 1:20:22 AM >1901 census goes online. UK latest: Public Record office opens up records of 32.5m residents of Edwardian Britain, but server problems blocked access to the material. [Guardian Unlimited] Fascinating. Ain't technology grand? .< 1:13:47 AM >Mike Peterson is writing a Web journal from Durham County jail in NC. [Scripting News]
Very interesting reading. Peterson writes well. .< 1:04:37 AM >Talking on the phone with Dave Jacobs, I asked if he has a clue what Apple's going to announce on the 7th. "I don't really know," he says, "but I've heard about the iDock, which is a flat-screen on an 802.11a network that moves your desktop anywhere you want to work in the home." A very thin computer, just a keyboard and screen (maybe just a screen and a pen) and relatively inexpensive. Sweet! [Scripting News]
Yowsa. Come on Dave. Don't spoil the surprise! .< 1:00:22 AM >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Flip a coin and see what turns up But the eight types of coin - released across Euroland in consumer-friendly "minikits" this weekend - form a clear link with the member countries. I didn't know that! Well that should help ease the pain. I gather the bills are generalized and not country-specific. .< 12:57:17 AM >~Special report: the euro [Guardian Unlimited] A wonderful resource if you're at all interested in watching the Euro rollout, here's the place to start. Aha. I finally see some reports of mixed feelings. .< 12:53:39 AM >CBC News: Fourteen juveniles arrested for arson as Sydney fires spread Carr said he hopes that those juveniles found guilty will face a another kind of punishment. He wants them to meet some of the people injured in the fires, along with those who lost their homes. Six adults arrested as well. .< 12:49:56 AM >UserLand: Home .< 12:49:01 AM >OmniDictionary 2.0 released. It’s “a Mac OS X client for network dictionary servers. It’s pretty straightforward—type a word into the entry field, hit return, and the definition is displayed.” [mac.scripting.com] Downloading now. .< 12:39:30 AM >G7 finmin meeting set for Feb 8-9 in Ottawa area. iWon Jan 2 2002 2:37PM ET [Canada news] Does this mean we get our very own riots? Oh wait, we just had some in Québec city. .< 12:32:11 AM >Matt Neuburg: AppleScript's Studly Studio. "AppleScript Studio isn't a mere scripting tool; it isn't just AppleScript with some interface widgets wrapped around it. AppleScript Studio is Cocoa." [Scripting News].< 12:31:03 AM >Artists trick Taliban police, save art. MSNBC Jan 2 2002 2:10PM ET [Arts and culture news] Watercolours wash off. Good work guys. .< 12:24:11 AM >A Critic Gives Eminem Another Look. International Herald Tribune Jan 2 2002 8:20PM ET [Arts and culture news] I've certainly heard some of this guy's music but I've never payed attention. I do remember Wieslaw asking me if I'd listened to him. WW's a pretty straight church-going guy. But he also knows a thing or two about music and performances. WW told me that he saw him on the Grammys and that he was incredible, particularly in how he played with the beat, pushing it this way and that. I really ought to pay attention. .< 12:14:35 AM >The New York Times: Arts New York Times' 2001 Year in the Arts: Music, Books, Theatre, Movies, etc .< 12:12:38 AM >Best of the Obscure Among 2001s Albums. New York Times Jan 2 2002 10:45PM ET [Arts and culture news] .< 12:08:47 AM >Adam Curry chronicles the Rolling Stones. [Scripting News]
Worth a read. Watch the typos! .< 12:02:36 AM >We won another award, this time for OPML. They spelled the name correctly. (But why no link?) [Scripting News]
Not a win Dave. OPML was runner up. Maybe next year? |
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