Saturday 2 February 2002

I must say it was a pleasant surprise to click on the Themes link just now and find that the list had increased from its former 3 to a new total of 10. Thanks, Bryan, for all the hard work. 9:49:02 PM  Your view

SF Gate: The Big Rip-Off. The real irony of digital copy-prevention measures is that the industry has invested heavily in these technologies, with monies coming from compact-disc sales. But not only do their measures not have the desired effect (preventing copying), they also produce an inferior product overall... [Tomalak's Realm] The connection between where the money comes from and what it's being used for is a valid one, and unfortunately this attitude is all too prevalent. Maybe it's stretching things a bit(?), but I see the same here in Dublin with traffic management.       Government authorities are quite happy to use car-sale figures as an indicator of economic performance, to levy exorbitant excise duty and to charge high rates of motor tax for the privilege of using a car once it's been bought -- and then they contradict themselves by directing this very income into anti-car campaigns of traffic restriction and cynical parking charges.       Phew! I'm glad I got that one off my chest! 9:45:28 PM  Your view

Checking my Weblogs page I came across this on Ross Olson's Dwelling site about 'The Two Towers', the second movie in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Are people serious about wanting to change the title before it hits our screens? Seems like sensibility gone mad to me.      Oh yes -- it also reminds me of the great story about another film. Who remembers The Madness of King George, with its fine performance by the late Nigel Hawthorne? The original play by Alan Bennett was The Madness of George III, but the title was changed for the film because the distributors feared that Americans might think it was a sequel! 4:40:52 AM  Your view

O'Reilly: AppleScript on Mac OS X.  [Scripting News] What I like most about this is the very idea of linking tutorials to a published book -- nice one, O'Reilly! At the same time, it isn't perfect: I took a fancy to the iTunes script but got a syntax error when I checked it in Script Editor, and one of the links to Apple's AppleScript pages was broken. I really fancy the idea in principle, though, so the O'Reilly Network has to become a Favorite on my Weblogs page. 4:11:50 AM  Your view

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