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Note to self: read this. .< 4:48:04 PM  >Apple: Release notes for AppleScript 1.8.1 (part of OS X 10.1.2). “The main features of this release are support for AppleScript Studio development and debugging, and access to UNIX functionality from any script.” [mac.scripting.com] Even more power under the hood. Awesome possibilities here. .< 11:00:35 AM >Rob says: "Blogging is just like crack, once you've tried it you can't stop doing it. I'm a blogging fool and I know it. Hey at least I'm doing this and NOT smoking crack, right?" [Jake's Radio 8.0 Blog - Made with MacOS X!] Right?! I could use some more sleep though . . . and interaction with actual human beings. Oh dear. .< 1:46:18 AM >I was talking with a friend last night about how I was feeling about shipping Radio 8.0, and recalled how Radio got its start for me. I went to a party at Dave's invitation, over on Potrero Hill here in San Francisco. Dave and I got to talking. He asked "Hey Jake, is there any way you can get Frontier to play music for me?" This was in the height of the Napster/P2P craze. I said, "Hmmm... Let me think about it for a sec." So I did. A few months earlier, I had been working at Sonic Solutions, on some JavaScript code that would integrate DVD playback with the web browser, so I had a little background knowledge, that I knew would make this possible. I realized that since I could embed the Windows Media Player in a web page, and that since Frontier is supremely adept at generating and serving dynamic web pages, that I could trick the Media Player into letting Frontier do the driving. The answer was "Yes, I can do it." Well, that wrecked the party for me -- in a good way. I couldn't wait. I stuck around for another hour or two, and then went home and started coding. Before I hit the sack for the night, I had a rudimentary version of what later became Radio 7.0.1's Music Tool working in Frontier. It was called suites.playlist. Well, in 8.0, suites.playlist is no more. Good ridance. Anyway, I can't take credit for everything Radio does -- far from it. The Team gets the credit. It took all of us to make it happen. Everyone here at UserLand has poured their hearts, minds, and energy into it, and while the feature-set is staggering, Radio 8.0 is so easy to use, that it almost seems like a contradiction. This evening we flipped the switch, and Radio 8.0 is live and shipping. Please try it -- I don't think you'll be disappointed. ";->" [Jake's Radio 8.0 Blog - Made with MacOS X!] Jake's a proud papa. I communicated with him when he was at Sonic. Never imagined I'd encounter one person who knew both of my favourite companies well, never mind work for them! .< 1:24:27 AM >Here's a macro that lists all of your stories by title, with links to the stories. The list isn't sorted, but a somewhat adventuresome macro-writer should be able to figure out how to do that without much trouble. ";->"
[Macro error: Can't compile this script because of a syntax error.][Jake's Radio 8.0 Blog - Made with MacOS X!] .< 1:12:34 AM >Don't blame Clinton. Conservatives who once ridiculed and obstructed the former president's aggressive efforts to fight terrorism are now trying to pin Sept. 11 on him. They have a lot of nerve. Part 2 of a debate. [Salon.com] Interesting. .< 1:08:05 AM >ZDNet: Story: The challenge: If I go Mac, will I ever go back? Can a Windows-dependent technology columnist live happily as a Mac user? That's the question I am about to spend a month of my life trying to answer. This should be fun! .< 12:57:52 AM >Tobin quits politics, will serve country as private citizen. cbc.ca Jan 15 2002 12:08PM ET [Canada news] OK, I have a more reasonable theory now. Tobin knew something about the shuffle and could see that Chrétien was not doing him any favours. He only had an outside shot at the top job anyway, and something about what he saw knew his fate was sealed. At least for now. So he bailed. I haven't heard or read this theory expressed anywhere yet. I'm not sure why. .< 12:47:36 AM >Palm hints at new device, company fading according to analysts [PDABuzz.com] .< 12:46:36 AM >US Treo delayed, Handspring to leave organizer market [PDABuzz.com] Nasty bunch of news from the personal organizer business tonight. .< 12:32:53 AM >An Artist's Success at 14, Despite Autism Autistic yet prodigiously artistic in the way of savants who display extraordinary talents, he suddenly began drawing at 10, breaking through autism's isolating walls with a deluge of intensely rendered, sometimes comical and oddly familiar faces that one art writer compared to the work of George Grosz and Francis Bacon Fascinating stuff. The guy's 14. .< 12:12:12 AM >Salon.com Technology | A corporate welfare state nightmare They focus on whether anyone in the administration broke the rules. The whole point of the Enron affair is that it discredits the rules of the game. It exposes the institutionalized corruption at the heart of U.S. politics -- a casual exchange of money and power that Bush has made his trademark. I'm keen to see this thing bring everyone down.
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