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A.O. Scott of the New York Times just panned Attack of the Clones. And I was getting hopeful .. the fact that Lucas had a co-author, and that Time Magazine seemed to imply that it might be better ..
I'll still see it, of course, but if this one really does turn out to be a dud, that put three out of the five films in that category. (Jedi doesn't hold up for me.)
'Attack of the Clones': Kicking Up Cosmic Dust. "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones" is not really much of a movie at all, if by movie you mean a work of visual storytelling about the dramatic actions of a group of interesting characters. By A. O. Scott. [New York Times: Movies]
8:24:26 PM 
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OS X 10.2 is being hyped by Jobs, and it sure sounds interested. I'd love to play with it, but even Jobs himself admits that you'll need a pretty new Mac to get the most out of it. Guess I'll have to wait a while until I can get someone else to pay for it.
Jaguar Preview Is Stunning. By now you may have heard some of the announcements at the 2002 WWDC conference in San Jose, Calif., but here's a detailed overview of just about everything Steve Jobs covered in his keynote address where he introduced Apple developers to Mac OS X 10.2, code named Jaguar. [O'Reilly Network Articles]
5:22:30 PM
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I've always been fond of post-apocalypse stories. Books like The Stand, or Earth Abides, or A Canticle for Lebiowitz all the same plot premise: disaster strikes, and the trappings of the modern world are swept away. City-dwellers, suburbanites, and famers are all left to fend for themselves and ultimately to rebuild society. The stories are aways brutally Darwinian: those who can't adapt, die. I've often wondered what would happen to me in that kind of world.
My father was a man who worked with his hands; he spent 20+ years in the Navy as a machinery repairman, making parts to keep ships and bases running. I inherited none of his skill or love of working with my hands. I’ve always been a creature of the mind, reading, thinking, never very fond of the outdoors. I’ve spent my life making a living on a technology of the mind, one that didn’t exist when my father was born.
I suppose the need for project management might still be needed. Assuming there’s enough of society left to try to knit things back together and rebuild, there will always need to figure out how to get things done.
Nah. I’d be toast.
2:31:21 PM
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I've been enmeshed in a job search since CNN let me go in December. One of the organizations I've been talking to work to relieve poverty in poor countries, and thinking about moving from the for-profit world I've been a part of for 5+ years back over into the not-for-profit side has me thinking about how technology can help people. I came across two projects in the last day that are working in that direction.
The first one is the Light Up the World Foundation, which is experimenting with light into the homes of poor rural people. The project uses clusters of white LEDs powered by pedal generators; 30 minutes on a pedal generator (think of an exercise bike) can charge a battery to power light in a house for four hours. The goal is to provide the light so children can read and study in the evening. [From SlashDot].
The SlashDot thread also points to the Engineers Without Borders group. (From their web site, they appear to be only based in Canada at this point.)
(Postscript: I didn't get the job, but the ideas are still worth thinking about.)
9:24:40 AM
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