COLD FUSION Job Bank (hint hint)
Apple Previews Next Version of Mac OS X. If this press release is accurate, and the only way for current Mac OS X users to get the update to 10.1 is for $19.95, I imagine that there will be some angry people in the Mac camp.
The Standard: Broadband Could Add $500 Billion to Economy, Study Says It’s this sort of very misleading projecting that caused the dot bomb boom.
Man am I ticked off at Sony right now. I bought a Sony laptop a couple of weeks ago to have a machine to use until I can replace my Powerbook. I made sure to buy a model that ships with either ME or 2000 for compatibility purposes. Since the store did not have the Windows 2000 version in stock, I went ahead and bought the ME version, knowing that I had an extra Windows 2000 license at home that I could use to upgrade the machine. Since there is a version that ships with Windows 2000 drivers, I figured that I could either download the drivers I would need or have Sony send me the drivers CD for the machine. Turns out that neither are available right now, and they can’t give me a date when they will be. I’m stuck with crappy unstable Windows ME, and very unhappy with Sony. I wouldn’t buy this machine if I had it to do again, and I may just go ahead and return it. God I sound like a Whiner.
DAVE for Mac OS X. Sharity was a one way, confusing and difficult to configure solution. I’ve always used Dave on my Macs, so I’m curious to see how Dave for X turns out.
Flaw in some AirPort Base Stations. I was having this problem a couple of months ago, and had called and gotten nowhere with Apple. I called today, and they are mailing out a replacement. It’s nice to know that there is good customer service somewhere.
AKIRA2001.COM A special edition DVD of a restored version of Akira is being released July 24th.
Spider-Man Movie Trailer It looks really really good.
I’m making an offer on my first house today. I’m very excited about it, and the last few weeks as I dragged my feet making a decision have moved by quite slowly.
Beijing wins 2008 Games Can’t say I’m happy about this. China has an awful record of behavior, human rights abuses, and a number of other things that are not quite in the Olympic spirit.
O’Reilly Network: Extending the Life Line of the Palm OS I have to say that, as I returned to the Palm platform after the loss of my iPaq, that the connection software seems a bit old fashioned to me now. It doesn’t really seem like it has been revamped in a long while. Also, they still rely on third parties for even their integration with Outlook. Sure they bundle the software in the box, but this is an essential part of what their software does. Just from my own outside opinions, it seems like Palm is missing the boat on a lot of things. Each of their licensees has innovated in some way, but it would be nice if they could tie all of those innovations together moving forward.
Now, I’m not saying this is in good taste, but IsDickCheneyDeadYet.com ??? Is this something that merits it’s own blog? I mean let’s take this as seriously as possible. Is this person damaging the whole medium of blogging? Devaluing the very existence of “serious” blogs? In another case of dot com’s over staffing, the site claims to have three staffers monitoring Dick Cheney. Do you really need three people for that or are they trying to burn through some VC money? I guess I just don’t see a revenue model here.
OSXGNU Software Archive (via inessential)
“Hello my friend!!!” If you’re ever at the corner of Marietta and Cone streets in Atlanta GA, you owe it to yourself to visit this man and pick up a fantastic smoothie. If you’re lucky, you may turn out to be his friend. (link, picture and text courtesy of n0d.org)
Dan Gillmor: Microsoft’s desktop `concession' taken from same old bag of tricks
Frankly, this is too little too late for this market segement. Microsoft managed to kill off any real viable alternative to Internet Explorer. Hold on, I know you are thinking "there's Mozilla, iCab, Opera" Well think about it this way, think of all the improvements that could have been made to Netscape if they had been able to charge for their software. Think of the innovations we might have seen had they been able to sink a huge, revenue based, R & D effort behind their browser. Well here we are in 2001, and the browser hasn't really moved very far from 1998-9. This is Microsoft's fault, and we need our government to step up to the plate here and not cave and settle.
Leo from Screen Savers on TechTV has a blog.
Osiris G-Bag is a backpack with built in speakers for listening to music.
Emusic has almost every George Carlin album as MP3’s up on their site. I continue to enjoy the unlimited downloads for $9.99 plan at eMusic very much. Especially since I started using Musicmatch Jukebox Pro as my player on my new Windows machine. As some would say, it automagically loads songs I download into my library.
I’ve been watching Major League Lacrosse whenever the games are on here. I played for a couple of seasons in college, and have always loved the sport. It’s so much more exciting to watch than some of the other professional sporting events on TV.