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Personally I find it faster to type'go' in the location menu and hit return. In fact, 'g' is sufficient most days. It may have a smaller graphic Dave, but is it really faster loading? .< 11:36:09 PM  >If looks could kill. The glance Sherron Watkins gives her ex-boss tells us all we need to know about Enron's sexual politics. [Salon.com] Wow. I had four distinct reactions to this article. [1] What? They were lovers? (They weren't. That's an attention grabbing headline.) [2] My appreciation for news photographers and editors has been growing in the past couple of years. The ability to capture the essence of a story in one shot is remarkable Of course we often the best shot from hundreds of photos. [3] This writer has a bone to pick. We're finding out more about her than we are about what she's writing about. [4] Omigod. There's a story here. She may be right. .< 4:04:42 PM >Stuck in a moment. U2 jilts Alicia Keys, winning four Grammys during a program that neither God nor Jimmy Iovine should have let go on so long. [Salon.com]10:30 Grammy chief Michael Greene, who took home $2 million last year running the nonprofit organization, reads riot act to computer users. Telling viewers that illegal file sharing is "out of control," "criminal" and a "life-and-death issue," he warns that today's acts are in "danger of being marginalized out of our business" by a "World Wide Web of theft and indifference." He presumably has to say stuff like that so he's not marginalized out of a pretty decent salary. I'm looking at this article thinking 'this guy's blogging the Grammys'. I think a lot of people did that. .< 2:11:51 PM >Craig Burton: "I have spent the last week upgrading six machines to Windows XP. On average it takes me eight to ten hours to complete. One took me around sixteen." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] Good grief. .< 2:09:46 PM >Letter From America: Putting Up With Dumb Americans Americans are, for the most part, a pretty simplistic people, not given to complicated theories about life and meaning and movies and all the rest. In fact, most of our crowning achievements[~]the Internet, the sitcom, the cupholder armrest[~]are designed with simplicity in mind. Complications, after all, are complicated, and when Gary Cooper shoots the bad guys in [base "]High Noon,[per thou] the European intellectual response ([base "]C[base ']est un exemple de la crise philosophique de l[base ']homme moderne: entre la violence et la foi, faut-il choisir la violence?[per thou]) is incompatible with the American one ([base "]Cool![per thou]). A funny article. Perhaps not so insightful as it might have been. But funny. .< 1:52:38 PM >Today we started linking Russ's tutorials into the directory on the Radio site.  [Scripting News].< 1:13:48 PM >Radio is our desktop product, it includes weblogging software, a news aggregator, and features that put a friendly face on XML-based services over the Internet. Radio is designed for people, the same way personal computers took the essential capabilities of a mainframe computer and made it easy to use, for people.
Frontier is our mainframe. It's centralized. It includes Manila, a deep and powerful browser-based content management system. Where Radio is designed for individuals, Frontier is designed for communities and organizations, workgroups -- groups of people. Like Radio it's a programming environment, the two products are very compatible. Scripts written for one environment usually run well in the other. The knowledge you gain scripting Radio can be applied in bigger ways on the mainframe. [Scripting News] Having taken on the record companies, Michael Robertson has moved on to fighting Microsoft. The man has chutzpa! .< 12:43:33 PM >Online Shopper: Rescuing Memories Trapped in Old Film [NyTimes - Technology] I have a few reels of 8 mm film, some of which I've never seen and a couple I have. One is of my father with me when I was a few months old. I really must get these transferred to DVD. .< 12:36:15 PM >Thursday in pictures. Gallery: Columbia space shuttle mission frozen on the ground; the peseta bows out after 133 years; and protesters burn vehicles in Ahmadabad, India. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:34:45 PM >Top recorder to be saved from collapse. Gramophone Feb 28 2002 0:39AM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news] "Just days after Nakamichi Corporation of Japan, famous for its beautifully made cassette decks and stylish systems, filed for court protection from creditors, the company responsible for the sale and distribution of its products announced that it will sponsor a rescue bid and assist in its rehabilitation. " .< 12:23:14 PM >Big Winners at the Grammys: Alicia Keys, U2 and 'O Brother'But perhaps the biggest message to the industry came from the classical field: Sir Colin Davis won a coup for the London Symphony Orchestra when his recording of the Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" won awards for best classical album and best opera recording. The honor is especially significant since the album was released on the orchestra's private independent label, LSO Live, which was formed in part in reaction to the neglect by major labels of classical music. "I think this is a message to absolutely everybody in the record business," said the album's producer, James Mallinson. He then added a message to the classical music business: "This is living proof that you can be successful with classical music on record, and you can sells lots and lots of it." Congrats to the LSO and shame on the majors. Of course 'lots and lots' is a relative term! .< 12:13:32 PM >Chicago Tribune | When operas cross the line: "When does a stage director's radical interpretation of opera represent an acceptable and even stimulating reappraisal of that work, and when does it cross the line into willful misrepresentation?" A potentially interesting question, but when I scanned through the article I noticed that the last 'sentence' wasn't a sentence at all. I assume this appeared in a printed newspaper. Sorry, the 'writer - even if his ideas are interesting - loses credibility with me when he doesn't know that a sentence requires a verb. .< 12:09:05 PM >CBC News: Doctors want to shut down industry anti-smoking programs: "The Ontario Medical Association and Canadian Medical Association have sent letters to Canada's three largest tobacco companies urging that the campaigns aimed at teenagers be terminated immediately.
The associations say the programs are ineffective and might actually be encouraging smoking. " When the province announced that it would allow right turns on red lights throughout Quebec beginning in August, it exempted Montreal. "Maybe it will never apply to Montreal," Transport Minister Serge Ménard said this month. Paradoxically, however, the lack of respect for pedestrian crosswalks has not resulted in higher rates of serious injury, according to Mr. Searle. Because pedestrians don't expect cars to yield for them, they don't have a false sense of security. " I don't know that I buy this completely. I think it's a bit of an outsiders view. My experience is that both vehicles and pedestrians will challenge each other in Montreal. Pedestrians routinely walk off the curb and into the street without paying much attention to the lights. They look, and if they think they can make it, they go for it. Of course they're used to the fact that drivers there are moving like hell. I think everyone has learned to live together there pretty well and the stats seem to back it up. Just be prepared if you're a tourist! .< 12:53:02 AM >Essay-in-Progress: Desktop Content Management. [Scripting News] |
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