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Thursday, 18 July 2002

Wow Amazon Light is awesome. I'll definitely be using this over the Amazon interface in some circumstances. Something like this would make a great Glue demo app - hint, hint. [Scripting News] 12:39:14 PM  comment []      MacWorld. My take on MacWorld. One word summary: cool [Pat's Weblog] My take on MacWorld: 17" iMac - want one. The screen size was probably the only thing I didn't like about the original iMac, and the new one fixes that problem. .Mac - Stupid name. Some cool stuff, but I probably won't be a customer (even 100mb is just not enough space) Jaguar - $129 is a lot - I think that will tempt a lot of people to pirate it. I'll buy it because I want to support Apple. (Funny that a company can inspire allegiance and notions of 'support Apple' when it's profitable) iSync - Give me! Give me! Give me! I've been looking for this for the PC for years. FusionOne came and went - this looks awesome. Please, please, please have Entourage integration. iPod - Almost ready to purchase one of these - 20gig is insanely large. iCal - Not so excited unless it integrates with Entourage (which would be cool) iChat, Inkwell, Sherlock 3, Mail - All sound cool, but I doubt I'll ever use any of them :) 12:32:28 PM  comment []      Thought Experiment: Science as an Open Source Project. The scientific process--controlled experiments with repeatable results, publication, and peer review--looks a lot like open source development. Since software development is more wired than science tends to be, what does open source have to offer science at large? [O'Reilly Network Articles] 12:21:54 PM  comment []      Do you remember the original Batman movie? I think whenever MacWorld is on Bill Gates becomes the Joker. I picture him sitting at home watching the keynote (on Quicktime of course) saying "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" (WAV) 12:11:12 PM  comment []      Brett and James have discovered p6spy today. I found it a fortnight ago - saved my bacon tracking down a nitty transaction bug in Resin. Good app, free. 12:57:39 AM  comment []      NAnt, Log4Net, NLucene, NDigester, and of course NUnit.  All are .NET ports or reimplementations of Java open source projects.  Anybody know of others? Wow - this is fucking scary! Not only do they port the project, they can't even think up their own name? [Sam Ruby] 12:55:55 AM  comment []