One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 20 May 2004

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Another chapter...and they seem to be coming...

Another chapter...and they seem to be coming fast and furious these days!
Iris is in love. [snip] I know what I did in cars as a teenager.

It occurs to me I was in one of those cars and I know who was driving!

< 11:21:12 PM >

"Jon Stewart’s Commencement Address to the 2004 class at William and Mary" [Daypop Top 40]

Plenty of good laughs.

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Bill Gates pushes RSS to CEOs of the world's top companies. [Scripting News] 'Gates also extolled the productivity benefits that can be derived from user-empowering technologies such as blogging, RSS, collaboration software and online communities that are integrated into Web sites.'

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Apple has reorganized its corporate structure into new iPod and Macintosh divisions. The iPod division will be led by Apple Senior Vice President Hardware Engineering, Jon Rubinstein, while Apple's Macintosh efforts will be led by Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales and Operations Tim Cook. Tim Bucher, who heads Mac system development, will head up the Mac's hardware engineering, according to a Reuters report. [MacCentral]

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There seems to be a lot of interest in The Backup Problem lately, so I thought I'd give mine away. It's a shell script that contains a list of things to backup, and produces a burned disc in one step. It also includes a NetIn... [macosxhints]

< 3:09:44 PM >

”The surprise hit of the Cannes film festival is a movie made by a first-time director with a budget of precisely $218.32,” reports Charlotte Higgins for The Guardian. “Tarnation was created by 31-year-old jobbing actor Jonathan Caouette, using the Apple Macintosh package iMovie. It is a touching and often disturbing family history pieced together via photographs, home movie images from the 1970s and 80s, and interviews by Caouette with his mother and grandparents.” [May 20] [Apple Hot News]

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The New York Times today published an article about how some people are taking advantage of home DVD-creation technology to put out discs of niche subjects, such as high school football seasons and independent features: Technology > Circuits > In... [iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide] 'Poetry Television, for example, a San Francisco-based group devoted to verse, sells a DVD of readings, "Weapons of Mass Production: The Spoken War" for $20 through its Web site, www.poetrytelevision.com. The DVD is part of a planned subscription series.'

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Downloading digital music turns out to be a route into the realm of memory. [New York Times: Technology] 'But for me the great value of 99-cent songs is that the hundreds of thousands of them on the Web serve as a universal library of quickly accessible information.

It's the kind of information that is a surprise. I expect to find data on the Web and to be able to shop. I never expected to find my emotional autobiography, or at least the musical keys to it, stored for ready access at a small fee.'

< 1:08:15 AM >

Specialized software turns tablet computers into 21st-century sheet music. [New York Times: Technology]

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You might call it the Yahooing of Google. Seeking to build on the popularity of its Web search tool, Google has added features and worked to make others more appealing to non-techies. It recently rolled out a streamlined version of Blogger (www.blogger.com), one of the most popular services for publishing the online journals known as Web logs. [New York Times: Technology]

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RSS-User: "LinkTV, a channel on DISH and DirecTV satellite networks, makes its show Mosaic available daily via RSS." [Scripting News]

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The Safari vulnerability advisory issued yesterday by security firm, Secunia, was updated on Tuesday to "Extremely Critical" from its previous "highly critical" level. Even with the advisory upgrade, security analysts are not overly concerned about the threat posed to Macintosh users. [MacCentral] The vulnerability is actually in Webkit which is used in a number of applications, not just Safari. You can workaround the security risk until Apple releases a patch by following these instructions.