The Lakers looked like a different team than the one from just a month ago dispatching Portland. I have to say that, while there are some really strong teams in the West, I now think the Lakers can get back to the finals.
Cringely: Cargo Cult This is another in the ongoing series of media pieces on the Internet bubble brusting and what comes next. I think, pound for pound, that this is the best one I’ve read so far. It is, however, some level of common sense that the same rules now apply to Internet businesses that have always applied to new businesses. If you aren’t going to make money, what is the point of having a business? (via Camworld)
The HandEra330 signals the beginning of a new phase for Palm OS devices. They have done some great things here, innovating beyond what the much more hyped Handspring has managed to do.
For those of us in the Web development business How to fail at business without really trying is both funny and sad.
I’ve stayed away from discussing politics on this site since its conception in November of 1997. Having said that, I’m alarmed and concerned about many of the things that the new administration has done in its tenure thus far. Some interesting information, which is of course quite biased by the source it comes from, is available on the 100 Days of Bush site.
Bowl of Cheese now gone forever.
The second Planet of the Apes Trailer is quite good, but reveals some changes in the plot of the story that I’m not too sure I like.
Others have linked to Taking Stock of Gen X: It’s Fallen Sharply, but I wanted to comment on it too. I don’t feel any of the bitterness that I think tinges this article. I don’t feel disenfranchised, I don’t feel put down. I think that as many of the bad Internet business decisions were made by baby boomers as were made by generation x. Still, it’s a good article, but I think that it’s written a few years too early.
Motorola Accompli 009 Personal Interactive Communicator. This seems like the device I’ve been looking for. I wonder which providers will offer it?
Tool has posted the lyrics to a few of the songs on their new CD, which will be released on May 15th on their Lateralus Preview page. Tool has to be one of my favorite musical artists of all time. When they were touring for their first CD, Opiate, I saw them open up for Henry Rollins two nights in a row at CBGB’s in NYC. I had never heard of them before those shows, but have been hooked ever since.
Using Terminal from MacFixit has some great information for those using Mac OS X who have never been to the command line before.
I’m leaving for a few days at Club Med in the morning. I am so very happy about this that I can’t even begin to explain it.
Startup aims to encrypt all Web traffic. Interesting concept. It’s amazing how insecure all of this stuff really is when you start to look at it from a security perspective. I’d pay an extra $10-15 a month premium to be with an ISP that really had their stuff together on the security front.
Listing of What’s in the Mac OS X 10.0.1 Update. One thing about this system update, it was the first time I can ever remember a system update being released and applied to so many systems without so much as an inkling from the OS vendor as to what got changed. No documentation whatsoever about the update beyond one paragraph on the Apple Mac OS X page. Since you apply it through their software update system panel, you don’t download the update as a separate file. I find it sort of disturbing to not know what got changed, what got improved, and what was new. Here we are four days later, and there still isn’t anything to read except articles on third party sites like the one linked above. Not good.
While the link below will talk you through the building of the most recent Apache and PHP versions on Mac OS X, this page actually has a PHP package that works with the version of Apache that ships with Mac OS X. It also contains a MySQL package and the accompanying script to get MySQL to initialize upon system boot. If you are wanting a Apache/PHP/MySQL combo up and running quickly and easily, this one is the way to go.
Mac OS X Apps is a good place to look for apps for Mac OS X, and also has a decent, but not completely exhaustive list of hardware compatibility.
Brent is doing a great job of keeping up with Mac OS X stuff on the web at machagogo.com.