Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Saturday, September 7, 2002

[Item Permalink] New Nokia videophone -- Comment()
No, No, No to Nokia's Videophone: "Nokia's new videophone may look good and feel good, but it isn't doing much for industry analysts, who predict the product will be a complete flop. By Elisa Batista." [Wired News]

This is interesting. It seems that Nokia has been quilty of hyping the product, which will not even be available for several months. The features certainly look all right, but it the use is too expensive and the services are not available, then this thing will flop.


[Item Permalink] Date on menubar -- Comment()
Add the date to the menubar in 10.2 [Mac OS X Hints]

I had used a previous hint for Mac OS X 10.1, but lost the modification when upgrading to Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2). I'll try this new trick - I like to see the date on the menubar.


[Item Permalink] Updated list of books on writing -- Comment()
I edited my short list of books for those who are interested in learning to write. I used the new Watson Amazon tool for checking the author data on the books, because I was too lazy to start picking out the books from my bookshelf.


[Item Permalink] Writing about random acts -- Comment()
Someone put dirt into our mailbox during the night, so I started to write about random acts. It is nice to live in a country where even this kind of little nuisance is uncommon. Cleaning up the mailbox was a welcome diversion, so all turned out well.