McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor (Via Pigs and Fishes)
Okay, I admit it, I’m really stressed out today.
‘Mac OS X Unleashed’ book available I picked up a copy of this book this afternoon. It looks very good, the best book I’ve seen so far in terms of its coverage of the BSD stuff underneath Mac OS X.
Computer News: Putting the Mac in Macromedia This is sort of an update, with some excuses, for why Macromedia hasn’t delivered their apps on Mac OS X. As someone who has used their software for years, and almost always on the Mac, I think we should be a little insulted that they spurned developing apps for our platform for several months while they were working on their Windows XP compatible products. No wonder they lost so much money this quarter.
I’m working on a short term freelance project with a friend of mine, so my updates might be sparser than normal. It’s sort of a neat device we are doing QA on, but I , of course, am not allowed to talk about that here.
NY Times: Amazon Surprises Wall St. With First Quarterly Profit This is fantastic news.
This is the first phone I’ve seen in a while that made me want to go out and buy a new cellphone.
Propellerhead Announces OS X Support This is great news for those of us that noodle around with music creation. I have been constrained to using the Classic Mac OS when trying out music stuff, but with apps like these finally coming, things are beginnning to turn that corner. Now if they would just get Photoshop and Flash out the door……
The Royal Tenenbaums was the funniest movie released in 2001. Somehow I forgot to mention that fact here. I thought it was brilliant and hilarious.
Radio UserLand : RadioExpress (now Mac OS X compatible)
Enjoying the rainy day.
News.com: CD creator burns copy-protection efforts “We worry (the labels) don’t know what they’re doing.” Ummm, I think he’s onto something. (via rc3.org)
The Register: Distributed computing case ends with probation. God I’m am so glad that this guy didn’t do any time.
Test post. Having trouble getting this thing to properly publish in both places because my ISP changed the ftp server setup without sending out an email first to warn me. So Blogger was not publishing at all. Combine that with intermittent publishing issues with Radio due to the Mac OS X/upstreaming problem and you’ve got one confused kiddie here.
Go2Mac.com: Palm OS 5 on Tap for PalmSource 2002
Music services want easy licensing, death to pirates [MacCentral] Nowhere in this article do the label people mention cost and the fact that consumers are fed up with rising CD prices.
Carriers Aim to Kill Number Portability I have been wanting this for a long time. I have been stuck with my current provider due to the fact that I don’t want to lose the number I’ve had for the last four years. (via metafilter)
The Register covers the Be Auction “Cruelly the only assets of real value - BeOS itself and the staff - now belong to Palm, possibly the stupidest technology company on Earth.”
We Knew There’d Be Scandals (via Boing Boing)
Dan hits the nail on the head today with his evaluation of the state of the music industry. I think what the music industry doesn’t seem to understand, probably because they are out of touch, is that by continuing to retrench without offering a better alternative, they are are just making the problem worse. They are making me want to download music.
The Allaire Website no longer exists.
Well, I’m off to the gym. The combination of new broadband and Radio Userland has made me want to get much more active posting wise. One of my neighbors just fixed a loose board in the fence in my backyard just because he had his tools out. Nice people these neighbors.