One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 29 May 2003

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What the Bush tax cut could have bought

That $330 billion could have covered every uninsured child in the country and paid for millions of teachers and child-care workers. Instead it's going to the richest Americans. [Salon]

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MSNBC: Microsoft, AOL settle browser suit. MS pays AOL $750 million. Web developers get $0. Web users get a buggy browser. Looks like AOL is switching back to MSIE. Rob Enderle is quoted in article, says AOL is divesting Netscape. Huh? Article written by Jon Bonne, the guy I debated. [Scripting News]

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Trying to have it both ways. We should vigorously appose this fantasy.

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The macosxhints Rating:[Score: 9 out of 10]Developer: Mike Bombich [Product Page] Although mentioned here a few times previously (including this hint from a year ago), Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) has never been listed as a Pick of the Week. This is a definite oversight on my part, as it's an amazing little program.[macosxhints]

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Based on responses from more than 7,400 subscribers to ConsumerReports.org surveyed in February 2003, Apple bested all other computer vendors in technical support, the magazine reports. [MacCentral]

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Survey: Will blogs wipe out professional journalists? [Scripting News]

I hope that while Dave is at Harvard someone will take him aside and explain to him how to do a survey with meaningful results.

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News to me: Brent Simmons, a former UserLand developer whose initials are all over Radio UserLand and Frontier, is tech editing Radio UserLand Kick Start.

This is a relief. Though, of course, as the author of the book I must claim deep expertise in the subject matter, Simmons has forgotten more about UserLand products than I know. The odds that this book will be a disgrace to my good name and that of the UserLand community just went down considerably. [Rogers Cadenhead: Workbench: Radio Userland Kick Start]

My goodness. Well, the book just got a major credibility boost. It's not that we doubted Mr. Cadenhead's potential but having Simmons on board is the best possible news. It'll be a must-have book for Radio-philes. I know it will be reader friendly but I personally hope the book gets a bit geeky now and then.

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Mr Karimov was President Bush's guest in Washington in March last year. They signed a "declaration" which gave Uzbekistan security guarantees and promised to strengthen "the material and technical base of [their] law enforcement agencies". '

In ten years they'll be the US's new public enemy number 1 and the yanks will be bombing the bejesus out of the people there.

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That the whole thing was filmed in Canada and is eligible for financial aid from Canadian taxpayers, and that its loyal Republican writer-producer is a Canadian citizen best known for his adaptation of  The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz , are ironies that will be lost on most of its American viewers when it airs on the Showtime network this fall.'

Too funny! I mean the part about the articulate president.

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Geldof back in Ethiopia [Daypop Top 40]

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Iran's restive youth are using Farsi-language blogs as an outlet to express repressed creativity and sexuality. But the Islamic government is slowly catching on. Michelle Delio reports from the BlogTalk conference in Vienna. [Wired News]

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A Windows XP update released Friday cut off Internet connections for an unknown number of the 600,000 users who installed it. Microsoft has withdrawn the update and is investigating the glitch. [Wired News]

Tee hee hee!

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Two record labels are including unprotected MP3 files along with conventional CD audio tracks. [New York Times: Technology]

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An M.I.T. researcher has devised a processor for cochlear implants that he says consumes only about half a milliwatt, a 10th of the power of current devices. [New York Times: Technology]

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The University of Michigan School of Art & Design is requiring that all incoming students for fall 2003 purchase a computer bundle that includes a 1GHz PowerBook G4, LaCie 60GB drive, and Epson CX5200 printer/scanner/copier. The bundle also includes Final Cut Pro, Microsoft Office X, Apple's Keynote, and various Adobe products. [MacCentral]

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Chrétien highlighted several differences between himself and Bush.

He said Bush opposes abortion while he favours a woman's right to choose.

Bush supports capital punishment and Chrétien does not. Chrétien supports gun control and Bush does not. '

I like it! Kinda like the differences between the two countries.

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Two more die of Sars, taking the toll to 29, as the Canadian prime minister says the virus is under control. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'A school near Toronto shut on Wednesday, and 1,700 staff and pupils were quarantined, after youth went down with Sars symptoms. More than 6,000 people around Toronto are in quarantine after Sars resurfaced six days ago.

The Toronto area is the area worst-hit by Sars outside Asia.'

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Donald Rumsfeld: 'It is possible that Iraqi leaders decided to destroy the weapons prior to conflict'. [Guardian Unlimited]

They lied to us, they're lying now and they'll lie again. A war completely without justification. It's what we said all along.

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Special report: Did we really lay the foundations of a lasting peace in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan? Jon Henley embarked on a month-long journey to find out. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Arts: Sir Paul McCartney is to become a father again, in his sixties. His wife Heather is expecting the couple's first child. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Apple Computer's new service, iTunes Music Store, has been the first real success story in the long effort to sell music over the Internet. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 'What is notable about the success of iTunes is that it has been achieved not by a music company but by a computer company. And this makes sense, because it was a computer solution that was needed, not a music one. Even more impressive is that Apple's coup has been accomplished relatively simply and cheaply. It owns nearly everything it is using: the Web browser software (Safari), the computer media player (iTunes), the portable digital music player (iPod), the streaming technology to play music videos (Quicktime), the software that creates the service (WebObjects), the computer itself (Macintosh) and the operating system (MacOS).

"Apple is the new MTV," said Numair Faraz, 18, who has started several online service companies. "It is the new funnel for music. When things moved from radio to video, MTV was the sole source of music. Now Apple is going to control the distribution and the promotion of music. The entire ecosystem they are using is theirs." Mr. Faraz said he bought roughly $115 worth of music at the iTunes store last month. In comparison, he said, he spent no money on CD's in the last year.'

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Due to a last-minute revision in the tax bill that the president signed, millions of low-income families will not get the increased child credit that is in the measure. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]