One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Saturday, 27 December 2003

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The Observer | Comment | Father of invention
Ive has rewritten the rules of design and can now live by them. From driving around San Francisco in an Aston Martin, to drinking with Paul Smith in Tokyo, to coming to the RSA in London to pick up Britain's most prestigious design award, he has probably the best job in the world. He's changing lives with life-changing technology and he's doing it on his own terms.

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Use iPhoto album images as iChat buddy icons

I created an AppleScript app called iPhoto Buddy Icons 1.0 that enables you to change your iChat AV buddy icon based on a photo album that you select in iPhoto. The icon will rotate through the album at the speed you specify... [macosxhints]

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Bomb and mortar attacks north of Baghdad kill four soldiers in 24 hours, the US military says. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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The North American Free Trade Agreement is more than ever a politically charged symbol of the promises and perils of free trade. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] '"It has definitely created export-related job growth," said Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico. As the Democratic whip, he helped pushed through passage of Nafta in the House.

"On the whole Nafta's been a plus, but still, with a lot of alarmingly bad follow-up on commitments made on the border," he said. Promises to protect workers' rights and the environment have "failed alarmingly." So have pledges to close the economic gap between the United States and Mexico.

"The whole idea that Nafta would create jobs on the Mexican side and thus deter immigration has just been dead wrong," he said. "That was oversold."'