A new Huey Lewis and the News CD? I thought I would never see the day:-)
Things here seem to be getting crazier by the day. I finally got to the contract stage with the house I was offering on for the last two weeks, so that is getting hectic quick. Inspection tomorrow, and then things start to get even more stressful. At the same time, my stolen laptop reared it’s head this afternoon in the form of someone who bought the Powerbook G4 at a tag sale for $500, then got suspicious later. I got a call out of the blue asking me about it, and I may be receiving it in the mail on Wednesday. Or maybe not. In related news, California law states that a hotel may only be responsible for a maximum of $250 for each bag stolen from a room. That’s a great law for us business travelers huh?
Agitprop: All about text styling on the Web (via Web Graphics)
OpenSource Directory: OSD / XML dump You can now download the OSD in XML format. This has some very interesting potential.
It’s true, it’s all true. I do miss Kozmo for the exact reasons that they mention in this article: it was a symbol of an easier to manage life.
Here’s some Stinger screenshots.
Microsoft hopes to create buzz for Stinger. In the article, a Jupiter analyst points out that Microsoft would have had a better chance of getting market penetration by partnering with Nokia, Motorola, or Ericsson. I’ll point out right now that, by partnering with a smaller company, Microsoft will have more control, and probably more access to profit. Finally, they will be in a position to actually buy the company outright at some point. They like to be in control of the situation.
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)