Weird experience just now: I installed the latest classic Mac OS update (9.2.2) while running Mac OS X. I doubleclicked and ran the installer; it quit all processes IN MY MAC OS X session (except the Dock) and then logged out OS X when it was done. Surely it could have just dumped me back into X and made me restart the Classic process. Frankly, though, I’m amazed it worked at all.
“Aid and comfort” rears its ugly head
Free speech must be getting Ashcroft down:
“To those who pit Americans against immigrants, citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve… They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.”
When being first isn’t good
How embarrassed am I that a story on this site is the top hit for searching Google for “muppets compromising positions”? At least there are only four pages of hits returned, and none of them actually have anything compromising about them. And it’s Esta‘s story, not mine. 🙂
And no, I don’t mean blank checks
Ashcroft finds himself on the stand today before Congress. This is an interesting example of checks & balances in action. Good old Patrick Leahy: even after being an anthrax letter recipient, he can still say things like “I want to make sure after we’re all gone that the Constitution is still here…It’s not always popular upholding the Constitution, but it’s always the right thing to do.”
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Because there’s not enough in non-fiction
This is so inappropriate I have to share it. I didn’t even realize there was a Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
All told, I’d rather be a lizard
My results from the Art Test thingy:
“You are Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
You are extremely popular and widely known. Although unassuming and unpretentious, your enigmatic smile has charmed millions. You are a mystery, able to be appreciated from afar, but ultimately unknowable and thus intriguing.”
Sure thing, hoss. And I gots some real estate in my back pocket for ya.
Changing the subject: has anyone else had trouble recently with Mail Boxes Etc.? They assured me that Tim’s birthday present would be delivered last Friday, but it’s still in limbo somewhere in South Boston. Irate…
Now playing
Currently playing song: “Isn’t It A Pity (Version One)” by George Harrison on All Things Must Pass.
Okay, I confess. I’m one of those miserable bastards whose only knowledge of the Quiet Beatle was from the recordings of the Fab Four, “Cloud Nine,” and the Traveling Wilburys (plus a vague horrified memory of “Gone Troppo”). I’m listening to Isn’t It A Pity for the first time and I’m knocked out.
Isn’t it a pity
Now, isn’t it a shame
How we break each other’s hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other’s love
Without thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn’t it a pity
Emulate away
Virtual PC 5 for Mac OS X is out. Connectix is to be congratulated for showing restraint in not calling it Virtual PC X.
Who said free is dead?
All you folks who want to do the weblog thing but have held back because editthispage.com is full, despair no more! Adam Curry (former MTV VJ, born-again-geek) has opened up diaries.com for free Manila hosting.
Go have fun.
Seven years later, KPMG discovers the Web
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. [KPMG] I’ll be sure to go out and get a formal Agreement signed next time I link to someone’s site. [KPMG]
> A recent audit of Web sites, to which KPMG is hyperlinked, has revealed that
> www.corporateanthems.raettig.org contains a link to KPMG’s Web site,
> www.kpmg.com. Please be aware such links require that a formal Agreement
> exist between our two parties, as mandated by our organization’s Web Link
> Policy …However, we
> would ask that you please remove the KPMG reference and corresponding link
> from www.corporateanthems.raettig.org in the meantime.
Oh, and just for the record: [KPMG]
Lizards??
How do web pages get amazingly popular? They produce silly pop-psychology survey tests that give an amusing result, and provide HTML code that includes a link to the survey site so you can share your results with everyone who comes to your web site.
Like this:
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If I were a work of art, I would be M. C. Escher’s Lizards. I am a bizarre juxtaposition of the real and the unreal. Based in the realm of mathematics, my two-dimensional appearance belies a complex and free-willed behaviour which both delights and confuses people. Which work of art would you be? The Art Test |
Or that’s the theory, anyway. Too bad it doesn’t really work.
Time to Grow?
Interesting article at WashTech about the newest sales strategy of everyone’s favorite contrarian computer maker: Apple’s Time to Grow:
[Apple] moved ahead with plans to spend $85 million opening its first 25 stores this year after it had become clear the computer sector was beginning to sag…
More famous Web guys
Interesting postscript to my WOMAD writings. Tony Levin wrote about the show too and took photos from the stage! Unfortunately I was too far over on the edge of the stage to make it into any of them…
What I’ve been doing in my spare time
Long time no blog. It is, as I’ve mentioned recently, the end of the semester in about two weeks. Tomorrow I’m doing a presentation on the future of Web Services and how it will affect the Internet and the business of software. The website will be available by the 12th; I’ll link it when it comes on line. I don’t have anything to do directly with building this website; for once I’m happy just to be a content provider.