One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 13 February 2002

.< 10:54:14 PM >

Mac OS X Tip of the Day: Power of X Presentation

We put together a really well received "feature presentation" at Macworld delivered by Phil Schiller and Avie Tevanian. Deeper than our typical presentations (discusses the kernel, security, AppleScript, Cocoa, Music/Audio and innovative apps from smaller developers), this 60 minute stream will give you insight in to some of the things that we feel make Mac OS X so cool. Check it out.... [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]

Sixty minutes of streaming video. I love that this stuff can be archived and made accessible.

< 10:50:51 PM >

It allows the manipulation of ownership as well as the privileges associated to the Owner, Group or others. "

A very handy looking utility. Pointed to by an Apple exec with a Radio blog!

< 10:37:22 PM >

Another ode to curling. A little too coying but there are some funny lines in here.

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Nice to see this story getting lots of coverage. Ironic that the labels are breaking the terms of their licenses in a desperate bid to control copying.

< 9:49:18 PM >

Ari Ben-Menashe, president of Dickens & Madson, said today he planted a hidden camera in his office and taped opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai asking the company on Dec. 4 to "organize" Mugabe's assassination and a coup d'etat "as soon as possible."

"He was very, very specific about eliminating the president and doing a coup d'etat," Ben-Menashe said in an interview.

.< 9:34:17 PM >

CSS Koolaid For Newbies: "So why are tables so crappy? Many browsers, if not all, wait for the final [closing table] tag before rendering the page. Get a person on a 56k modem, and you'll have someone waiting for their browser to load images and then get that final closing tag. When you drink from the sweet goodness that is CSS Kool-Aid, your pages will load faster. They'll render faster. They'll even scroll faster."

Respectfully pushing back . . .What is it that Dave doesn't understand about this? He doesn't care if his readers don't want to bother to read his site because it's sluggish? I think he's made an ideological decision and he's decided he's not going to move from it. Hey, if you're going to ask your viewers to wait around, you'd better have some 'value-add'. Sure I'll wait for a video clip, but do I have to wait for your laziness? Listen, I'm hooked. And I read scripting news postings via the xml feed. But there are a lot more potential readers out there.

< 8:41:38 PM >

via AppleCare KnowledgeBase: "Mac OS X AppleScript: How to Send Events to an Application on a Remote Server"

< 8:39:04 PM >

From the 'how the heck did they do that' department . . . You can smoke up, or click on the 'great linkage' link.

< 8:23:43 PM >

OK. I've decided that this is the proper place to come for Olympic coverage. This guy is brilliant. Right in sync with my own thinking. But he's much funnier! I was going to quote a pile of stuff about the skating controversy (they wuz robbed) but couldn't resist this.

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I'm no expert but I do know that rendering of tables in browsers can really slow things down. And Userland has often provided tools that create layer upon layer of nested tables. It also means that piles of extra data is being pushed around the net needlessly.

< 6:41:51 PM >

A former figure skater and judge weighs in.

< 6:35:23 PM >

Microsoft's direct lobbying has also grown out of all proportion, so that it now retains more lobbyists than the handful of companies with more than 300,000 employees. Microsoft has just 30,000 employees. Part of the reasoning for extensive use of retainers, says Roeder, citing a Business Week article, is to "suck all the oxygen out". In Washington State, Microsoft has hired many law firms with antitrust expertise to work in unrelated areas.

The strategy was extended to other key states, with the dual benefits of starving the opposition of experienced lobbyists, and achieving political results that have benefited the company's case.

In South Carolina, one of the states originally participating in the antitrust suit, Microsoft contributed $25,000 to attorney general Charles Condon shortly before his re-election in 1998. According to the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party this was the largest unsolicited donation ever received. Three weeks after Condon won the election, South Carolina withdrew from the antitrust case. " original link from [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]

If anyone can afford to buy votes it's the convicted predatory monopolist Microsoft.

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Front page, top story in the Globe today.

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< 1:11:11 AM >

Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese and Polish judges all felt Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze[base ']s free skate was the best. The Canadian, American, Japanese and German judges preferred Sale and Pelletier.

The deciding French vote went to the Russian skaters.

The French judge, according to Eisler and former Canadian pairs champion Kris Wirtz, sided with the bloc in order to curry favour with the most powerful judges during the ice dancing competition. The French couple of Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat are among the top contenders in that event."

Pretty shocking stuff.

< 12:56:08 AM >

This from a columnist for a PC magazine.