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- The Washington Post's (and Newsweek's) columnist Allan sloan has a straightforward piece in today's newspaper on the fiscal games being... |
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- In the wake of recent violent attacks in Baghdad and around Iraq, "President" bush trotted out some tired old rhetoric... |
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- I wish there weren't a mess in Iraq. I really do. But since there is, then it's fair game... |
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- This has to be my biggest grammatical pet peeve EVER. Learn it, live it, lick it.... |
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- "The row over Janice Rogers Brown": You can access Dahlia Lithwick's commentary here, via the National Public Radio program "Day to Day." |
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- It has now been 27 months since I officially became a mono-coaster. With the end of the dot-com boom, and an Incredible Shrinking Travel Budget, I haven't been west of the Mississippi since August of 2001. I was reminded of this the other day when I looked at my US Airways frequent flyer mile balance. Once, I was Gold Preferred. Now, I'm "Member". |
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- It has now been 27 months since I officially became a mono-coaster. With the end of the dot-com boom, and an Incredible Shrinking Travel Budget, I haven't been west of the Mississippi since August of 2001. I was reminded of this the other day when I looked at my US Airways frequent flyer mile balance. Once, I was Gold Preferred. Now, I'm "Member". |
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- Here's an excellent suggestion on how to get revenge for CBS's woefully fact-deficient TV movie about the Reagans.... |
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- Eastenders IS the best soap opera (or 'serial drama' as they like to call it!) in the land. Thankyou very... |
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- I have been wearing a thong for about six months now. I have discovered two things about thongs: 1) they... |
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- I HAVEN'T PAID ENOUGH ATTENTION TO THE SAN DIEGO FIRES (according to some of you) but it's all over the news and I don't have any very profound thoughts on the subject. But here are some more astounding firsthand photos sent by a reader.... |
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- I HAVEN'T PAID ENOUGH ATTENTION TO THE SAN DIEGO FIRES (according to some of you) but it's all over the news and I don't have any very profound thoughts on the subject. But here are some more astounding firsthand photos sent by a reader.... |
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- With Google possibly looking to index book content from a central database [via Erik Benson], it would be nice if they could lend a hand to the NCBI and sort out PubMed's search facilities. Not being able to do phrase searches (eg "injuries caused by excessive exercise" which just gets split up into separate words) is a fundamentally missing part of this search engine, while being a feature that Google manages really well. |
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- INCLUDE{"DocsUserNote"} TOC STARTINCLUDE # TWiki Variables Special text strings expand on the fly to display user data or system info TWikiVariables are text strings ... |
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- CONFERENCE CALL BRIEFINGS |
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- Check out Loren's blog for the latest from PDC"The Tablet PC Roadmap session here at PDC is about to begin. The speaker is David Jones, Lead Program Manager, Tablet PC Platform. I'm guessing that there are 150 people here. David just asked how many people are using Tablet PCs right now and about thirty+ raised their hands. Cool. |
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- "Fujitsu is preparing to launch a new slate type Tablet PC that features a faster processor, larger screen and more capacious hard disk drive than its current model. Details of the new computer, the Stylistic ST5000, including the draft user manual, were revealed in documents published by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission after the device received regulatory approval for use in the U.S. |
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- There's a lot of buzz about this little $300 dashboard device that changes traffic lights at the touch of a button. Meant only for firetrucks and the like, it seems the recipe has leaked and devices are for sale to the public. Bad news for traffic safety, obviously. This is a nice example of how it's a bad idea to base infrastructure on simple secrets. Because it's so much harder to keep something secret than it is to spread the word. |
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Wipeout (Oct 28 2003 21:55 GMT) - Me and Ez went for a bike ride yesterday, just nice and slow, a cruise, you know. We went around the corner to the firestation (you know he loves the firestation). Anyway, there is a big hill to hoon down.... |
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- SI.com - NFL - Jaguars cut Slaughter after assault charges - Tuesday October 28, 2003 2:15PM T.J. Slaughter, who attended... |
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- Major differences exist between these two. Getting ready for the Yahoo switch over to Ink in time for xmas may be mission critical to your business. |
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- Ninth Circuit rejects effort to hold illegal an electoral system that uses touch-screen voting unaccompanied by any back-up paper trail: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link. Law Professor Rick Ha |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Plus, Microsoft's new Windows, and tobacco's big deal. |
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- The Post Office wants to require identification to send items out. This is another reason their monopoly should be broken.... |
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- We've got a slew of "Panther" tips and reports in our sixth report page today, and we're working with readers to sort them all out. |
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- Apple released Final Cut Pro QT Render Plug-in 1.0, which "addresses a compatibility issue between Final Cut Pro 4 and QuickTime 6.4 that occurs when rendering non-DV clips in DV sequences." |
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- Lexar's upcoming JumpDrive Music combines a USB flash drive and MP3 player in a Mac-compatible device priced under $90. |
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- Easy Encryption is a set of FileMaker Pro templates that provides basic encryption and decryption of using FileMaker's calculation functions. |
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- 4D Column is a 4th Dimension plug-in for displaying and manipulating columnar data. |
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- Mailblocks brings its anti-spam challenge/response service to Mac OS X. |
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- Adobe announced that it is shipping Adobe Creative Suite in a $999 Standard Edition, which combines the new Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, and the Version Cue file version manager, and in a $1,299 Premium Edition, which adds GoLive CS and Acrobat 6.0 Professional. |
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- FileMaker Web Companion 6.0v2 Update fixes a problem that caused Web Companion to become unstable or quit when sharing databases from Mac OS X 10.2. |
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- The media asset manager adds Mac OS X 10.3 Panther compatibility, improved support for 48-bit TIFF images, improved batch editing of multiple images, revised contextual menu support, and other enhancements |
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- The 2D drawing and illustration program improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and adds three Panther-specific features: group composite mode, PDF opacity control, and EPS to PDF conversion. |
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- The anti-spam plug-in for Eudora adds support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and also for Perl 5.8. |
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- The firewall utility completes modifications needed for use on Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, adds IP mask support, increases the allowed ICMP type limit, and makes other changes. |
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- HttpMail Plugin enables the Mac OS X Mail program to read and send email from a HotMail account. The new version has been revised for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. |
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- Sophisticated Circuits updated PowerKey, Kick-off, and iDo Script Scheduler with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther compatibility and other improvements, including distinctive ringing for PowerKey, and a new type of crash recovery for PowerKey and Kick-off. |
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- inkBook is a note-taking application that lets you use a tablet and Apple's Ink technology to write notes. The notes remain as handwritten ink, but can be searched, copied to other applications, and exported to a text file. |
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- We link to some Apple Support resources for Panther. |
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- Readers point out user interface tricks and firewall fixes for Panther. |
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- Are all these network connections strictly necessary? It's especially an issue with dial-up connections. |
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