Secret U.S. court OKs electronic spying. A secretive federal court grants police broad authority to monitor Internet usage, record keystrokes and employ other surveillance methods against terror and espionage suspects. [CNET News.com]
I've got a really bad feeling about this. Too much unchecked power, particularly secretive power, is always, always a bad thing. It's all heppening too quickly - the hawks in our society are grabbing power in the name of patriotism. I fear for my daughter's future.
The Jaguar UI is beautiful. No doubt about it, this is the best user experience in the industry.
MS Office apps and documents work almost seamlessly with their Win2k cousins. Almost.
Apple's Airport card and my home WLAN gateway (an HP gateway) don't work together. It's weird, but every time I fire up the Airport card, my WLAN access point locks up. Requires powering the access point down and restarting. Irritating.
iCal could be great, but it's still too immature to work for me. And, I need tools for integrating iCal with Outlook calendars. Bring out new revs of it quickly, please....
After following the instructions at both Apple and Netgear user support sites, my Powerbook still won't recognize the LAN-based print server. So I'm printing via USB, another pain ITA.
The only pure fun software I bought for the Mac, Myst, doesn't work. It loads, but will not run on OSX. Nuts.
Sherlock is amazing, great, cool - it's what network-aware apps should be. More, please.
Networking with PCs isn't as seamless as advertised - though that's probably more the fault of Winblows (as my friend Matt calls it).
When I work through most of this list, I'll probably bring a new blog up in Movable Type.
Looking at the list, it seems most of my problems or gripes are about integrating the Mac with already-existing PC and home LAN gear. All in all, I'm still glad I spent the cash on the new machine and new environment, but I'd hoped to be farther along creating a good working environment with it. Proves once again - personal computers still aren't easy enough for the masses. Nobody but a tweak would do what I'm doing to make things work.
I really hope that John Robb's take on Bush politics is wrong. I don't want to suffer through a decade of this; nor do I want America to become the singular policeman for the world. As much as I despised the Clinton presidency, I'm beginning to feel nostalgic about it.
Wow. Once again it's feast or famine in the solo consulting business. Between new project, old project, trying to keep a life and futzing around with both Mac and PC environments, my days are too full. Old project has to die before things get better. And, the holidays lurk out there, too close for comfort.
