One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 17 August 2004

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olympic blogging

Phil Dunn is competing in this year's olympics and is keeping an online diary with pictures. [via]

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Cool. Phil's on the US team and is a racewalker.

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NY Times: Trying to Take Technology to the Masses. Mr. Reddy, a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, plans to unveil at the end of this year his new project, called the PCtvt, a $250 wirelessly networked personal computer intended for the four billion people around the world who live on less than $2,000 a year. [Tomalak's Realm]

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eWEEK: Faster Wi-Fi Standard Nets Second Proposal. A proposal for the next-generation 802.11n standard, originally floated by Agere Systems, has now won support from heavyweights including Intel, Matsushita and Toshiba. The group, called TGn Sync, will challenge the WWiSE consortium, a second collection of companies including Broadcom Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. [Tomalak's Realm]

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Great swimmers have dominated past Olympics all by themselves. What a thing, though, to have three of them, in their prime, in the same pure-speed event, standing together in the three centre lanes, Mr. Thorpe and Mr. Phelps already with a gold medal each here, and Mr. Phelps with a world record already in hand. [GAM-National]

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SACD (Super Audio CD) has been popular with audiophiles with its superior analog-type sound. However, its main competitor, DVD-Audio, not only offers audiophile quality sound reproduction, but has the ability to include video as well as audio on a disc,... [About Home Theater]

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Karl Münchinger, Sir Georg Solti & Stuttgarter Kammerorchester[iTunes 10 New Releases]

Holy repackaging Batman!

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At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net.

Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.

Well that's a relief! E-mail is apparently dead too.

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I always thought it might be helpful to use the OS X installation CD not only for the purpose of installing the OS, but to do some repairs which can't be done when running from the hard disk. Fortunately, Apple has made this ... [macosxhints]

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News.Com: RSS gets down to business. Using RSS for calendars is not a new idea, but it's a very good use for RSS. Basically you subscribe to a calendar, and then add items in the future. The feed shows you the items that have been scheduled for that day. [Scripting News]

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US elections: FBI questions dozens of demonstrators planning to come to New York for the Republican convention. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Canada's relaxed drug laws may be fueling a boom in marijuana exports to America [TIME's Top Stories] 'If passed within the year, as seems likely, new Canadian legislation would decriminalize possession of less than 15 grams of marijuana, meaning that offenders would be slapped with only the equivalent of a traffic ticket. That approach is a far cry from the one that is taken in U.S. states like Oklahoma, where a person caught smoking dope could get up to a year in prison, although probation is more common.'