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Saturday, September 29, 2001
started 9/29/2001; 2:14:48 AM - last post 9/29/2001; 2:14:48 AM

Doc Searls - Saturday, September 29, 2001

9/29/2001; 6:14:48 AM (reads: 3802, responses: 0)

Thanks!

A bunch of you came through with recommendations for removing the DVD from its Titanium prison. Not sure what it says about me, or Apple's industrial design, but I never even noticed that F12 is also an eject button.

It didn't work the first time or the second, but the third time I rebooted holding F12 down, the DVD whirred out of the slot.

I slid Norton in, held down the C key and it booted off of that. Now it's taking f o r e v e r to examine things. I think I'm a long way from out of the woods on this one.

Help!

I made the mistake of using the Titanium as a DVD player for the TV this evening. Long story short: the Titanium now only blinks the image of a folder alternating with a "?"

Not good.

Worse, I can't do any trouble-shooting with the DVD stuck in there. I have no idea how to get it out. There seems to be no manual way to extract a CD or DVD from the drive. Nor any kind of button.

I have no documentation. I have no idea what my AppleCare ID is. I'm not even sure I successfully registered, even though I paid for it.

Anyway, if any of ya'll know how to get that DVD out of there, send me an email. I'll pick it up off the server with this here backup machine.

Thanks.

Last words

The Source explains The Picture. Quite touching, really.

While you're there, check out the 360-degree 'scape from under the Brooklyn Brige. It's a curtain call for the World Trade Center and Life as It Was.

Biting the bullet

Playwright Charles Deemer has announced his defection from the peace movement in the form of an open letter published in Willimette Week Online. In the same issue is another piece, Ain't Gonna Study War, that closes with a paragraph that expresses precisely the disconnect between the rhetoric of war and action on the ground that looks more like a manhunt:

"Is our objective war, or is our objective peace?" asks the ex-Marine. "If our objective is war, then go for it. Go kill innocent people. If our objective is peace, then let's work toward peace. I don't know what bombs and peace have in common at all."

Here's a professional soldier who says war is about killing innocents. And clearly what we're doing isn't about that.

Again, as several military people have pointed out to me, President Bush and his team have a novel situation on their hands. For the first time since Vietnam, the American people have given their Commander in Chief permission to put large numbers our own soldiers at risk. And perhaps for the first time ever, perission for killing civilians has been withdrawn.

In the past, killing civilians — innocents — has been a standard tactic for putting pressure on an enemy government. That's why Hitler bombed London and the allies bombed Dresden.

Not this time.

We're willing to tolerate a few "collateral casualties," perhaps; but not intentional ones.

Which makes Operation Infinite Justice a police action more than a military campaign.

At least for now.

Another old friend points to The Peacemakers Speak, a collection of perspectives from past recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. None of the statements I read seemed to rise far above the cliché level, but it's an interesting collection of voices none the less.

Perspective

How the 9-11 disaster looked to the Hebrides.

Another Chapter in the Blog Story

The Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Red Cross has a blog. Just got started.

Thanks for both link and blog to Bruce Fryer.

Fixed

Apparently something was wrong with the blog yesterday. I was out the whole afternoon and evening, so I missed it.

Glad to see the problem got found and fixed so quickly. Big thanks to the Userland folks.

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