One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 12 February 2004

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The curious mystery of George W Bush's Vietnam war

What did the current US president really do during Vietnam, ask Suzanne Goldenberg and Oliver Burkeman. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is giving away $89m of his fortune to help find new vaccines to fight tuberculosis. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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I had movie I made and rendered to disk from a while ago that I wanted to burn to DVD. I also wanted to add those neat scene selection screens that iDVD4 has. I did some research and found out that if a movie has a chapter tr... [macosxhints]

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You can view two days at a time in iCal by typing command-option-2, three days by typing command-option-3, and so on, up to seven days. I discovered this because I tried to assign command-option-1 to Window -> iCal in the Key... [macosxhints]

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The success of the Apple iPod has spawned a flock of imitations from electronics makers, computer makers and even veteran music-player makers. [New York Times: Technology] 'So far, Apple's iPod is by far the best seller among high-capacity players. You can't stand in a public place without seeing a pair of those telltale white earbud cords pass by; for once in its life, Apple gets to find out what it's like to be Microsoft.'

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After working for a parade of doomed dot-com startups, a young programmer named Bram Cohen has emerged as the face of the next wave of Internet file sharing. [New York Times: Technology] 'Using BitTorrent for illegal trading, he added, is "patently stupid because it's not anonymous, and it can't be made anonymous because it's fundamentally antithetical to the architecture."'

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Out-polls J K Rowling, Ricky Gervais [The Register]

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Net advertising sales grew to $2.2 billion for the fourth quarter of 2003, breaking the previous record reached during the height of the dot-com boom. [CNET News.com]

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