the art of writing is discovering what you believe
I have the Office X test drive installer, but I’m not sure I want to install it, give the possibility, no, likelihood, I’ll be unable to use my ancient but reliable Office 98 apps on any documents the new apps have touched.
I’ll need to research that.
So I’m looking through all the fabulous benefits of .Mac membership, and Backup looks good. But what’s this fine print all about?
To create backup CDs or DVDs with Backup, you must have an internal, Apple-supplied CD-RW drive or SuperDrive and a paid .Mac subscription.
An Apple-supplied CD-RW? Hmmph. I’ll have to assume I can get away with an Apple-supported one, ie the moral equivalent of the ones they supply since I’m not buying a new machine just to get the drive.
Still, for $49.95, .Mac looks like a good deal for me. In light of the Leading Brand and their abortive switch ad, what does Apple do for me and what does Microsoft do for me? Does Microsoft offer to automate and store backups? Does Microsoft have an email service that doesn’t require I use their client software?
If people want to buy everything based on MHz numbers and other meaningless minutia, that’s OK with me. I know what works for me.
The long-awaited Nextdoorland hit the stores on September 24. Featuring the same lineup that brought you Underwater Moonlight, the Matador Records release was recorded with Pat Collier over the winter and spring of 2002 at Gravity Shack Studios in London. Besides the CD version, a limited vinyl edition also includes a bonus 7" with two live tracks from the band’s April 2001 show at the Knitting Factory: "Underwater Moonlight" and "Only The Stones Remain."
And they’ll here in the Emerald City at the Crocodile (expect an appearance by Peter Buck) and on KEXP: that will be worth listening to.
This time I was coming out a store at the UVillage and saw someone bring one to a stop, turn it on its axis, and then go about the business of meter reading.
I went for a closer look, and the meter reader filled me in on how fun it is, though bumpy sidewalks are a bit uncomfortable (apparently, they’re not sprung at all). While she was off the machine talking to me and doing her work, it just waited patiently on its two wheels, rocking gently back and forth: it reminded of a horse grazing or a boat rocking on a swell more than anything on wheels.
They look bigger and more robust in person, bigger tubes and much bigger tires than I imagined from the pictures. I could see a whole population riding them, rather than cars or even bikes, for medium commutes and errands.
O’Reilly Network: Googling Your Email [Oct. 07, 2002]
I was going to use that title yesterday when I wrote about “intertwingledness.” Glad I saved it.
Good writeup on Zoe by Jon Udell.
O’Reilly Network: Googling Your Email [Oct. 07, 2002]
At InfoWorld’s recent Web services conference, Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin gave a keynote talk. Afterward, somebody asked him to weigh in on RDF and the semantic Web. “Look,” he said, “putting angle brackets around everything is not a technology, by itself. I’d rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write, than to force humans to write in ways computers can understand.”
Sergey Brin and Jon Udell are smart guys, but then I always say that about people who agree with me:
Or what to do with 12 lbs of green tomatoes? My answer is make chutney. never done it before, but here’s what’s currently simmering on the stove:
4 lbs of green tomates, chopped
1 lb granny smith apples, cored and chopped
2 large onions, peeled and chopped
1/2 pint cider vinegar
Cook that about 30 minutes at a strong boil til everything is soft, then add:
1/2 tsp allspice
1 tbsp ground coriander
1-2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 – 1 tsp cayenne
1/2 lb raisins
This is as far as I’ve gotten so far
cook an hour more and add:
1 lb brown sugar
1/2 pint cider vinegar
2 tsp salt (optional)
put in sterilized jars and let mature 4-6 weeks.
<addendum> This made about 7 1/2 pounds of chutney. I used 2 lb peanut butter jars I had saved for some canning project I knew would evolve, and it took three of them to hold it all. It looks and smells wonderful, but it’s a tad raw-flavored: a little maturing at the back of a cabinet won’t do it any harm.
CNN.com – Schools reviving a dead language – Oct. 14, 2002
A funny thing happened on the way to higher standards: Schools remembered Latin.
As educators work to improve student performance in basic subjects such as reading, math, history and science, a few are finding that Latin, long thought stuffy and irrelevant, can help.
Citrix is a company whose products– and, indeed, whose entire business plan– is founded upon compensating for a ridiculous design flaw in Windows.
Likewise Novell: their roots in fileservers and networking products stem from the lack of any networking in early versions of Windows.
We’ve all heard about how a single typo can knock you out of the running for a job, before anyone even reads anything about you. So what to do when a consulting firm goes to the trouble and expense of designing a website and then misspells “efficiency” and “innovation” in a graphic?
<sigh>