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I found the upgrade info. I'll have to pay US$ 30. What a drag. If we'd waited another week to order I'd have the new version now. .< 11:15:34 PM  >With a Huge Jazz Festival, Montreal Is Understated. Twenty-three years old and one of the biggest and most respected festivals of its kind, it is hard to grasp the Montreal International Jazz Festival. By Neil Strauss. [New York Times: Arts] The Montreal International Jazz Fest is one of the best things you can possibly do with your summer vacation. A sublime party. Understatement reminds me that Montreal is in Canada. .< 11:01:31 PM >A new Bryan Bell theme called Moveable Manila Blue. Bryan says: "CSS themes rock!"  [Scripting News].< 10:54:15 PM >Ontario will legislate end to Toronto strike Toronto's two-week-old garbage strike may be about to end. Ontario Premier Ernie Eves is asking the provincial legislature to reconvene for an emergency session as early as Thursday. [CBC News] .< 2:06:54 AM >Welcome to Gramophone - Libraries offer thousands of recordings on line 'From today, visitors to libraries in Westminster, London will have free on-line access to thousands of works of classical music.' .< 2:02:29 AM >No more talks planned in Toronto strikes 
Toronto's strike situation looks bleak. The sides aren't meeting, no talks are scheduled and the province says it won't provide a quick solution. [CBC News] .< 1:57:56 AM >Aids vaccine 'within five years'. An American pharmaceuticals company claims to be in the final stages of testing an Aids vaccine, possibly providing a working vaccine within five years. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:56:15 AM >I'll warm to Toronto once the air starts moving again By DAVID MACFARLANE -- It's been suggested that I should get out more, to which I reply: Are you crazy? Do you have any idea what it's like out there?Have you spent any time in your oven recently? Well, if you have, that would provide you with absolutely no insight into what it was like to be in Toronto last week. That's because it's unlikely that you shared your broiling pan with a mountain of rotting garbage, a family of skunks, a neighbour's air conditioner that sounds like a climbing 747, the exhaust fumes of several million cars, an idiot mayor, and a pack of local rats, all of whom believe they've died and gone to heaven. Which may explain why the Pope is wondering if he can come in, too. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Always read Macfarlane. .< 1:51:56 AM >NYT: Expecting Taliban, but Finding Only Horror. "Mr. Rahim said he asked an American commander who visited the scene: 'Mullah Omar and Mullah Bradar are just two people and you bombed four villages. Why?' He went on to say that the four villagers arrested by the American soldiers were ordinary farmers." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] .< 1:49:03 AM > Just hours after the release of version 5.2.1 of MS Internet Explorer for MacOS X I had the update on my desktop. Today I found it there and realized that I had not run it yet for a very simple reason, I've been using Mozilla as my primary browser.With plenty of Ram available, I'm actually running both, but I found myself clicking on the "M" icon much more frequently that the "E" one. I got used to tabbed browsing, to the multiple links bookmarks, to the direct link to google in the address field and to a somehow faster rendering of pages. Very soon I could swicth the default browser settings of my system, and for the second time of my life I will have changed my default browser (I switched from Netscape 4 to Explorer 4 sometime at the end of the last century). The main reason for my switch will be a bunch of very simple new features, something that has been totally missing from IE for a long time. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Bingo. My experience almost exactly. .< 1:43:19 AM >Automatic thumbnail images on iTools pages [Mac OS X Hints] Excellent. .< 1:38:17 AM >Edit iMovie files with any text editor [Mac OS X Hints] .< 1:35:34 AM >Western Digital to ship 200GB drives in July [The Macintosh News Network] That's big. .< 1:32:12 AM >FrontierMonitor for OS X. From Emmanuel Décarie, a Perl daemon that “will try to launch the Frontier/Radio servers if they are down and will send you a warning by email while logging the event in a log file.” [ranchero.com] .< 1:31:06 AM >O'Reilly Network: Cable Modems: Less Boon Than Beast. Andy Oram. But the limitations of cable modems would render them unattractive if alternatives were available at a reasonable cost. And wait--there's more. Cable modems keep us in the dark ages of Internet access, seriously distorting Internet usage, economics, and policy. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 1:25:41 AM >Canada among countries singled out for ignoring AIDS
Leading international human rights advocates and scientists lashed out at the world's political and economic leaders at the opening session of the AIDS conference in Barcelona, on Monday. [CBC News] .< 1:20:38 AM >FileMaker announces FileMaker Pro 6 [The Macintosh News Network] 'OS X-specific improvements include support for OS X services, long file names, import/export of ODBC-based data and Execute SQL script.' There it is. Less than 2 weeks after i installed 5.5 on my machine. I went to see what might be offered for someone in my position but the FMP site hasn't been updated yet. .< 1:13:32 AM >Bush says U.S. will oust Saddam U.S. President George W. Bush says the United States will use all the tools at its disposal to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. [CBC News] .< 1:09:53 AM >Internet Explorer 5.2.1 Released (07-Jul-2002; 1K) [TidBITS]'In a singularly unhelpful move, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 5.2.1 for Mac OS X with absolutely no indication of what has changed.' .< 1:05:35 AM >David Roy warns that attaching an externally-powered FireWire device to a Mac without its power supply connected properly may ruin the Mac's FireWire ports (an expensive problem). [Macintouch] .< 1:00:26 AM >EarthLink Launches Digital Music Service. ATLANTA (Reuters) - Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. (ELNK.O) on Monday launched a service for its users to download digital music, working with privately-held subscription service FullAudio. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]'Atlanta-based EarthLink said its Digital Music Center will offer downloads of up to 50 songs per month for $9.95 or 100 tracks per month for $17.95.' .< 12:56:16 AM >Third of Cell Phone Users Eye New Phones. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly one-third of U.S. mobile phone users plan to upgrade their handsets within a year to get new features such as voice recognition, text messaging and downloadable ring tones, according to a study released on Monday. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] Interesting. Those are pretty high numbers. I'd be interested in a couple of these features but I don't think I'll make any changes within the year. .< 12:50:28 AM >Smoke from northern Quebec arrives in Maritimes 
The smoke has cleared over southern Ontario and southern Quebec, but the forest fires that spread the veil of smoke over the regions on the weekend are still burning just as intensely in northern Quebec. [CBC News] |
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