Sunday, 13 January 2002
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O’Reilly Network managing editor Derrick Story explains Why We’ve Embraced Mac OS X. “The Mac DevCenter has doubled its traffic in the last two months. And the articles we’ve published on Apache web serving, Java programming, and Cocoa application building have attracted great numbers.” [mac.scripting.com]
This jives with the impression I was getting about a month ago, just from reading weblogs. Cool.
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Seattlement terms nixed by Judge. Windows schools giveaway "predatory" [The Register]
Thanks heavens.
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TV Filter Negates Naughtiness. A Canadian mom invents a technology that mutes 'nasty and naughty' words from programming. The 'unspeakable' word list purges words like 'moron' and 'jerk,' cleansing movies like Shrek for kids. Elisa Batista reports from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. [Wired News]
What was I saying about those 'nice' Canucks?
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20th Century Masterworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto. Absolutearts.com Jan 12 2002 2:00AM ET [Arts and culture news]
Picasso, Matisse and more loaned by the AGO for the first time to a museum in Florida, and aren't they excited! Nice
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Wow. What was that. Some kind of truck drove through our little world last night. You should have seen Weblogs.Com. Man. It was like a drunken party with crazy girls and lots of booze and hard drugs. A new high-water mark -- on a Friday night! I've never had a product ship like this. What a trip. I hope it never returns to normal. We turned a corner. A big one. We spent a lot of long days and nights preparing for it. There were times when I thought we wouldn't make it. But in the end I think we met our goal. 80 percent of the people get to first-post in five minutes or less. Yes, of course there were problems, and we still have a lot more we want to do with this software, there are lots of tools and tutorials to write, lots more bugs to fix. It's a big piece of software, almost fourteen years of code under the browser interface. Yes it mostly works. Inch by inch. Thank you Murphy. I'm not worthy I'm not worthy. [Scripting News]
For you out-of-towners . . . Dave just shipped some new software.
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Scott Loftesness: "Radio 8.0 is my secret weapon!" [Scripting News]
A good and relatively simple explanation of what Radio does.
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DCRP reviews iPhoto: "impressive" [MacNN]
From here links to a large page with many graphics. Written by photographer so should be practiical.
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Brent's tips for using Radio 8. [Scripting News]
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Ontario PCs far behind Liberals, survey says
In particular, the new leader will have to overcome an enormous gender gap in which the Liberals enjoy more than twice the support there is for the Tories among women.
Great news! I'm with the "girls" on this one.
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