A Few Screws Left Over

Sunday, December 8, 2002

More progress on Dates sync: Got the sync working! Notes are only being synced from the Newton to the Mac right now, and I may release that way to get it out there. And now that it's working I'm intent on breaking it again, by adding sync of deleted records. Syncing deleted AddressBook records isn't terribly important, in my eyes... if you delete a contact it's not terribly important that it gets deleted on your Newton, or vice versa. But with Dates, it's important that a meeting gets deleted one place when it's deleted the other, so that you don't see meetings on your calendar that are no longer valid. I'm hoping to finish this tonight and post late late late, but I have to get to the gym before it closes. Hopefully, more progress reports will follow...
10:30:53 PM

comment []

ACLU versus Ashcroft: rewriting the Constitution. The ACLU is running a spectacular TV ad campaign criticizing Ashcroft's systematic undermining of the Constitution he is sworn to uphold. I was zooming through the commercial in a "Changing Rooms" episode at 32X on my TiVo and the ad leapt out at me. This is a great, tight message explaining what's wrong with John Ashcroft's America.

Link

Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
6:22:17 PM comment []

SUVs are not healthy for children and other living things. SUV's aren't only hard on the environment, they're also dangerous to their owners, to other drivers, and to their owners' kids. Not to mention the whole, "I'm changing the climate -- ask me how!" factor.

Part of the reason for the high kill rate is that cars offer very little protection against an SUV hitting them from the side--not because of the weight, but because of the design. When a car is hit from the side by another car, the victim is 6.6 times as likely to die as the aggressor. But if the aggressor is an SUV, the car driver's relative chance of dying rises to 30 to 1, because the hood of an SUV is so high off the ground. Rather than hitting the reinforced doors of a car with its bumper, an SUV will slam into more vulnerable areas and strike a car driver in the head or chest, where injuries are more life-threatening. But before you get an SUV just for defensive purposes, think again. Any safety gains that might accrue are cancelled out by the high risk of rollover deaths, which usually don't involve other cars.
Ironically, SUVs are particularly dangerous for children, whose safety is often the rationale for buying them in the first place. Because these beasts are so big and hard to see around (and often equipped with dark-tinted glass that's illegal in cars), SUV drivers have a troubling tendency to run over their own kids. Just recently, in October, a wealthy Long Island doctor made headlines after he ran over and killed his two-year-old in the driveway with his BMW X5. He told police he thought he'd hit the curb.

Link

Discuss

(via Ambiguous) [Boing Boing Blog]
5:56:55 PM comment []

Clinton: Democrats "were missing in action". In a major political address this week, former President Bill Clinton bluntly dissected the Democrats' recent electoral losses. Moving to the left, he said, is not a solution -- but fighting back is. [Salon.com]
5:39:36 PM

comment []