Monthly Archive for June, 2004

Perspective 0 cmts

I guess its the mark of a good writer that, five hundred and eighty odd pages into a book, in the space of about three pages he can turn you from loving a character to loathing him, without changing the nature of the character in any way.

Apple did not copy Konfabulator 2 cmts

Apple did not copy Konfabulator – His writing goes on and on, but his point is well taken.

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Jun

2004

29 June 2004 0 cmts

About halfway through Quicksilver. It is the second most confusing book I have ever read. Doing lots of gameroom stuff. Craving spaghetti and meat balls with garlic bread. Subverting the system.

Is America’s obesity epidemic a lie? 0 cmts

Is America’s obesity epidemic a lie? – George W. Bush is an extremely active, healthy person, but according to the standards some experts are pushing, he, along with 80% of Americans, will be considered overweight.

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Jun

2004

Bush’s security team faces a barrage of criticism as the facts about Iraq come to light 0 cmts

Bush’s security team faces a barrage of criticism as the facts about Iraq come to light

Everyone shouldn’t see this film 4 cmts

Everyone shouldn’t see this film – MPAA bans critic’s quote “everyone should see this film” because Farenheit 9/11 is rated R. Huh?

Tiger Server will support offline home directories 1 cmts

Tiger Server will support offline home directories – But will I be able to use the home dir on two places at once? And do I really want to run OS X Server on my desktop?

Apple, I expected better 5 cmts

Apple's Dashboard Today at their Worldwide Developers Conference Apple previewed their new version of Mac OS X, named “Tiger”, which will be released in the next 6 or maybe 9 months. It looks pretty spiffy, with a slightly tweaked look, some updates, and some nice new tools. Unfortunately, the two coolest tools introducted in Tiger look to be blatant rip-offs of established 3rd party programs.

Apple’s Dashboard software displays “widgets,” which are basically nifty little utilities written in JavaScript. Included widgets are a datebook, stock ticker, calculator, address book, clock, and a few others. This is pretty cool, unfortunately it is very similar, down to the scripting language and the nomenclature, to the wonderful Konfabulator. Their home page says “Cupertino, start your photocopiers,” and I think they have a right to be angry. Apple didn’t offer to buy their great existing software, but simply stole the concept and re-wrote it without giving them any credit (or money).

The same seems to be true for Apple’s new Spotlight feature, which pops out of the top menu bar and allow for quick and easy searching and, one would assume, program launching, because that’s basically what LaunchBar does, another tool that I love, and that I doubt was given any money (or notice) from Apple.

Really Apple, I expected better from you. If others were to do what you’ve done, you’d take them to court. But when its a little developer, you just steal, steal away. This is pretty sad behavior, more befitting Microsoft then such an innovative computer company.

Iraq war ‘will cost each US family $3,415′ 1 cmts

Iraq war ‘will cost each US family $3,415′

Is it just me, or is 60 Minutes getting crappier? Apparently, it is under new management 0 cmts

Is it just me, or is 60 Minutes getting crappier? Apparently, it is under new management