Month: June 2005

how is this not spam?

Part-time, 10 hours weekly, virtual job to find and post messages to blogs, forums, chats, bulletin boards and websites about [redacted].com. Your job would be to identify appropriate outlets and craft messages and comments about [redacted].com that fits in with the attitude and vibe of the site you are visiting. This is NOT SPAM but rather a considered and thoughtful way to introduce [redacted].com to people who would enjoy sending a stylish and witty eCard.

Looking for some way to augment my income and found this on craigslist.

Seems pretty spammy to me.

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a look at AdSense

I have wanted to get rid of the AdSense strip for a while now, but I’m in a bit of a cleft stick: I’m just over halfway to the payment point (Google only sends payment when you reach a certain threshold: in my case, it’s in the very low 3 figures — as low as one can get). To quit now means adding that pittance to their engorged market capitalization ($77 billion, as of this writing). I need it more than they do.

But as soon as that target is met, I’m inclined to take it down.

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“;Please don’t recount this vote”;

Al Gore honored for his contributions to the Internet: he may not have been present at the creation but he did play a part in it.

As someone I worked with once explained, the OSI networking model was actually two layers short: the eighth and ninth — the financial and political — also had to be mastered for real world deployments. I think that’s where Gore’s strengths were most useful.

Now playing: Symphony 2 – Beethoven by BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda from the album “The Beethoven Experience – Downloads”

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adventures in dental surgery

Had my consultation with a periodontist this morning.

It looks like my damaged teeth (from my little bike accident) are going to cost about $6000 to repair.

So click on an ad, won’t you? At my current rate of return on AdSense, I should be able to cover that sum in a mere 60 years. I’ll be 103. A winning smile will be pretty far down my lists of things to be concerned with. Details below the fold (no pictures or anything unpleasant, honest.)

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enough already: Apple switch roundup from Interesting People

Some interesting tidbits in the postings below:

[IP] more on Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET News.com
[IP] more on Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET News.com
[IP] more on Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET News.com
[IP] more on Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET News.com
[IP] Apple to Intel: Some advantage, lots of risk
[IP] more on Apple on Intel – it just dawned on me…
[IP] On AMD, Apple, Intel, IBM and The Great Game of Chips
[IP] more on On AMD, Apple, Intel, IBM and The Great Game of Chips
[IP] more on On AMD, Apple, Intel, IBM and The Great Game of Chips
[IP] next obvious question
[IP] more on next obvious question
[IP] more on next obvious question
[IP] more on next obvious question
[IP] Why the Intel switch is bad

Frankly, I’m tired of this story. There has been a fair amount of fact-free reporting in the larger media outlets, lots of FUD. Surprising that no one is picking up the “double life” comment, that OS X has been running on Intel and IBM/PPC hardware since the public beta days — 5 years ago.

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and here I thought he was going to act grown up

komo news | Judge Upholds Election; Rossi Ends Challenge:

WENATCHEE – A judge Monday upheld Democrat Christine Gregoire’s victory in last fall’s governor’s election, and defeated GOP candidate Dino Rossi said he would not appeal – ending the legal fight over the closest gubernatorial election in U.S. history.

“With today’s decision, and because of the political makeup of the Washington State Supreme Court, which makes it almost impossible to overturn this ruling, I am ending the election contest,” Rossi said at his campaign headquarters in Bellevue.

The election – decided by an amazingly narrow margin of 129 votes out of 2.9 million cast – included 1,678 illegally cast ballots, Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges found.

You’d think he could just say “enough’s enough, we’ve had our chance, let’s move on” but no, that wasn’t good enough.

Makes me even more glad he lost, if that’s how he handles reality.


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when to buy your last PPC Mac

Daring Fireball: Classic Not Supported on Intel Macs:

I don’t think this is surprising, but it’s certainly the end of the Classic Mac era.

Sounds like it might be worth buying one as late as possible before the Intel ones become the standard if you have any need for backward compatibility.

Any bets on the future collector’s market for PPC Macs?

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the switch is not as drastic some people think

The author of a lengthy post on “the switch” let this slip:

Software: Obviously OS X won’t run on x86 gear at the moment so how do we fix this problem?

The comments I would have left, if I felt like registering:

Apple has been running OS X on Intel hardware for five years: surely the fact that Darwin and OS X Server were openly cross-platform indicated the bulk of the work was done?

So, they could show you Tiger on a white box PC at your local Apple Store today — if they wanted to.

As for the lack of a roadmap, it seems likely Apple is privy to more information than any of us: they must have seen something that made switching worth it.


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