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Sunday, September 1, 2002
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Power to scroll mice -- Comment()
iTunes3 changes pane focus on hover [Mac OS X Hints] This is also a kind of useful feature. I used this with Mail in Mac OS X 10.1, but didn't try out with iTunes. Nice if also other applications behave this way with scroll mice.
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Terminal drag and drop -- Comment()
Drag and drop text from the Terminal [Mac OS X Hints] This is a nice new feature of Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2). What other things are still to be discovered?
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I started to draft a new article about good books on writing. I don't have all the books with me, so I had to postpone writing the complete details about the books. Have to consult Amazon to edit the article further... I'm inclined to think that writing is a craft which can't be taught. It can be learned, however.
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Today I edited my column for an IT magazine. I'll edit it once more later on, because there are still a couple of weeks to the deadline. I have now written columns regularly to the magazine for two years. This has been an interesting time. I have managed to try out many different styles: I have written essays, short stories, and a movie script. I have discussed in the columns women in the IT world, Grid, Open Source, quality of software, IT as a pollutant, and many other topics. I usually draft the columns several weeks in advance. When I edit the text for publication it may change completely. Some column drafts have never seen print. Currently I have half a dozen column drafts waiting for the final polishing. Today I discovered a new form for a column. I think this one will be one of the best I have written so far. The idea needs polishing, but that is usual. This column will probably appear in the beginning of the next year, so there is plenty of time. I have two column drafts already waiting for polishing and publishing.
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