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Microsoft Notebook: The end of ‘my’ is nigh:
Those folders on your Windows desktop will still be yours — but in the future you’ll need to figure that out on your own.
Ending a longstanding tradition, Microsoft Corp. plans to stop using the word “my” as the default prefix for such folders as “My Documents,” “My Music,” [...]

Tim Bray on owning your work product:
ongoing · OpenDocument!:
Let me put it this way: if you occasionally create documents or spreadsheets
or presentations, and if you think that you’d like to own them, independent of your Office software vendor, well, you have exactly one choice: OpenDocument.
If those docs/spreadsheets/presos might be long-lived, or contain high-value
data that you [...]

Thanks to the Newseum.
Not too many papers going to great lengths for Memorial Day: I think I saw greater efforts at commemorating and honoring those who sacrificed all when there wasn’t a war on.
Thank you to these 1,656 and the others who came before them.

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On a New Server:
This site is on the new server now, using WordPress. Please let me know, in the comments, if you see any problems.
I get the sense that the last people using MT will be people developing for it, as if that was the point of a publishing platform.
Do I have [...]

Some features seem to have been inadvertently removed in the Tiger development and release cycle.

I can’t get X to work properly: I can run X-based apps locally, but can’t display any from other systems. Nothing to do with the built-in firewall, since I turned it off. I don’t even see any log entrails to work [...]

Gee, it makes people want stuff . . . and it’s often stuff they don’t need/can’t afford. But they see that their fave celebrities have one (or more) so they want to burnish their lives with one as well.
Class Matters - Social Class and Status Markers in the United States of America - [...]

Some random quotes that showed up the other day:
Confucius
“He who will not economize will have to agonize.”
Motivational Quotes of the Day 5/27/05 7:01 AM
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
  - Katharine Whitehorn

School field trip to Carkeek Park: I took some pictures of parasailers braving the 50 degree water and 20 knot winds in pursuit of what passes for bliss . . .

I should have been closer to the action, but my responsibilities as chaperone wouldn’t permit it.

I was enjoying DesktopManager in Panther but it didn’t compile in Tiger until today: I built it and used it for a bit until I saw these messages in the Console:
May 24 13:37:20 white /Applications/DarwinPorts/Desktop Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/Desktop Manager: The function CGSGetElementForCStringKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a [...]