One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 17 April 2002

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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Reawakening the creative mind: "It is based on the idea that we all have the sorts of extraordinary abilities usually associated with savants.

According to scientists at the Centre for the Mind in Sydney, these hidden talents can be stimulated using magnetism. "

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Updated to 10.1.4 this afternoon. Got home with my Pismo, woke the machine from sleep, changed location to my dial up connection, switched to Eudora, started to dial in. The machine froze up solid. Let's hope it was just a fluke.

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To people who wonder about the revenue model for the Google API, here's a clue. "When Google arrives on the desktop, it will have the same SOAP interface that the global Google has. All the tools that work with the centralized service will also work on the desktop."  [Scripting News]

Dave's right about Google on the desktop. I would pay for this. And I'd be happy to help finance a company that has helped me so much . . . by building such a great search engine. As a Mac person I thought Sherlock could do this. It comes close on earlier versions of the OS but is entirely useless on OS X.

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Available via software update.

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Yeah. Now he only has to live with his conscience. There's a trial.

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Access your mac.com account mail via the web.

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Those are US dollars but it's getting pretty tantilizing.

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Not what I expected when I saw the headline. Turns out they're talking about pop groups. The Smiths!? Who knew?

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A great article to get you all excited about the potential (and to some degree currently reality) of weblogs. I agree with a lot of what he says and share his enthusiasm. I do have two comments. Sullivan nots that in bypassing the editor and publisher the writer has more freedom and implies that s/he won't be catering tso much to the audience. Hmmm. You don't look at your referrer logs to see what's attracting the hits or where those hits are coming from? And you don't adjust what you do in reaction to that? I'm not dimissing what he's saying just circling this little point for more thought.

My other comment is just a pet peeve. I shut down as soon as a writer pulls out the 'Think about it' phrase. I haven't decided if this is just lazy writing or if it's insulting to the reader. But I don't like it.

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Marketing the iMac.

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It certainly is the sexiest solution and the one with the most capability. But it's not a fair game when you're playing with a monopolist.

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La Scena has links to many articles on the story. It appears they will be updating the links as the story evolves.

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Wow. Wah Keung really dug into the story. Great work.

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Did someone say 'what have you done for us lately?' ;->

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Today I moved Radio UserLand folder to my iPod. Since moving Radio is usually painful, I renamed my iPod disk with the same name of my PowerBook HD. Everything works as expected, I'm posting this message from my G4, running Radio from my iPod.

This also means that I can walk to any Mac, plug in my iPod and start blogging in seconds. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Too cool. It's getting easier and easier to rationalize an iPod! Oh dear.

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I knew it! "evectors" is a mac based company. Had to be.

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Based on the work Paolo has done developing products for Radio, and the few times I've read his blog, I think the guy is brilliant. Someone I should pay more attention to. Think I'll subscribe to his feed.

BTW, I don't mean because he thought to use "Google" as a spell checker, but because of how he thought this idea through to something beyond. Give his article a read.

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