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| Thursday, February 21, 2002 |
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Voltron's Creed 
| | Cuts deep too. Real deep. |
Undocking OS X
| | I share a lot of Andrew's complaints (mostly about GUI issues), but find OS X a shitload more reliable and easy to use than the Classic MacOS. To each his own. |
Only ten?
Talk about heroes
Newsrolling
Perspective
| | I just printed out this photo on nice glossy photo paper to put up in our home's observatory (the otherwise useless 7' octagonal room that constitutes our entire upstairs) — and to impress our 5-year old kid, who can see and name 5 of the pictured objects with (as he puts it) his "naked eyes." I can't even make most of them out with my glasses on. |
Question
| | Can you get these at Wal-Marts in East Reality, Kentucky? Or just at the Web store? |
Autoblogrolling
| | I've noticed that a lot more of the stuff in my referer logs comes from blorolling lists, rather than links in text. Interesting, no? I've got 23 inbounds from Camworld, and I'm almost a full screen down on his "Sites I visit often" list and absent completely from links in Cam's current text. |
| | I think more people are doing what I often do, which is use other people's blogrolling lists as public bookmarks, and jump from one to another the way I tend to jump from the front page to sports to business to other sections of the morning newspaper. The difference: nearly everybody here has something more like a column than like news. The blog form conveys news, but is essentially columnar. |
| | In his NPR commentary the other day, David Weinberger said something like, "If in the real world everybody is going to be famous for fifteen minutes, on the Web everybody gets to be famous for fifteen people." It was kind of a joke, but it suggested something of a corollary to a corollary (mine to David's to Andy's): In the future everybody gets to be Herb Caen for at least fifteen seconds. |
| | Herb Caen was the tireless chronicler of San Francisco life for something like 60 years. His column, always chock full of dropped names (akin to links in this medium), was a must-read every morning in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maybe if some of us hang around long enough... |
I'm staying young. It's just the mirror that's getting older.
| | The other day somebody said they thought I was much younger; but they couldn't say why, except that they'd read a bunch of my stuff but had not yet seen my face (apparenty that thing at the top of this page doesn't count). |
| | Here's what feels strange: I know too much to be young, but I feel too young to be old. |
| | Meaning, if could trade knowledge for youth, I'd never take the deal. |
| | Even though I still feel like I don't know shit. |
Like a sword on the shoulder
| | In the latest New York Review of Books, James Fallows sources David Weinberger's forthcoming book, conferring upon the good doctor no small measure of well-earned Authority — especially since a nice Weinberger quote substantiates the sensibility of the whole piece. |
Incoming...
| | You hardly need any more proof that there's a war going on between the Entertainment Industry and its customers than the proposed reporting rules the Copyright Office has just come up with for both broadcasters of streaming media and their listeners. The comment line is open until March 11. |
| | And thanks to Tom for the link. |
Improving on the silence, one month at a time
| | Nice to see that Jamie Zawinsky has the DNA Lounge in a groove (the calendar is even current — a rare thing for the Web face of an entertainment venue). Meanwhile it's still fun to check in on his rare, brief and always pithy gruntles. |
And then you can tell me how it ends
| | I don't have time for this whole thing (or even what it insists upon), hey, maybe you do. |
Synk
| | Ever since I put my life in the hands of my Palm, I've had a dependency on its PC companion, Palm Desktop. But now I can't use PD. Well, I can, just like I can use sugar in my gas tank. After much eliminating of culprits, it appears that the beta version of Palm Desktop for OS X is what screwed up OS X for me. And it still isn't compeltely unscrewed. Waking up after sleep was never a problem before. Now it is. |
| | The specific culprit appears to be the two "login items" Palm Desktop" requires. (One is HotSync, I forget the other one.) When I get rid of them, the problem disappears. Interestingly, the only other login item is iTunes Helper, which doesn't appear to be a problem. |
| | I'm now at OS X Version 10.1.3 (automatically updated it yesterday). The guy I talked to at Apple Tech support recommends reinstalling the system, but also admits that's hard without a complete 10.1.3 disk to start with. These apparenly are not in circulation yet. The temporary disgnostic solution is to move all my necessary document files to a transitional directory, then logging in as a new and different user (to whom my original user's personal directories will be unavailable). I'm trying that. |
| | FWIW, yesterday I also tried going back to the old Mac Palm Desktop, 2.6.3, in Classic mode. But to work I need to be running natively in Classic. Since I've already made the move to OS X for most of my work, that's a bit too retro. |
And they're selling banner ad space too
| | Thanks to my cousin Paul for the link. |
Jabbard
| | One good side effect of the standards process is that it forces submitters to explain clearly what their technologies are all about. Some of the clearest stuff I've read about :Jabber are here in a descriptive draft written for the IETF. |
Bleverage
| | Help Chris Pirillo write his blog article. |
Truckin'
| | I'm heading to North Carolina tomorrow, and I'm on a death march to get a buncha stuff done today. This usually means I blog more, but it always feels like it'll be less. |
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