Archive for April, 2003

iTunes 4

So today was the big day that was in the rumor mill for a while now. Today came, and quite simply, I'm amazed.
I used to have quite a bit of quarrels with iTunes after having explicitly used WinAmp, with not being able to do things the way I thought they should be [...]

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The savior to the earth’s waste?

Once again I'm absolutely blown away by something. I had always thought that someday we'd have the technology to breakup anything into its core molecules to be reused later and the earth would gradually be returned to a place without waste and toxins. And what do you know? It's already here. [...]

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When does a snapshot of a mother breast-feeding her child become kiddie porn? Ask the Richardson police.

This is just so absurd it blows my mind.
Jacqueline Mercado, a 33-year-old Peruvian immigrant, took a few photos of her young children at bath time. A week later, Richardson police were rummaging through her house for kiddie porn, and a state child welfare worker came to take her kids away.

Story here

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iBook/OSX amazement

So here I am, sitting on the terrace with pitcher of New Glarus Mai Bock, sucking off the wireless access points of the UW there. I see a thread on Macintoshian Achaia on Ars and there's talk about a replacement or equivalent of Homesite for OSX. Now I've been looking for this for [...]

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I got myself a new bike

Well, it's been 5 years since I've had a bike when I last gave up on fixing my old Trek. I had this urge to get one and start biking again. So I went to a few of the usual spring sales and got one at the place that used to be Willy [...]

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DVD-R Compatibility listing

Wow…. just what I needed. Now if I can just find one +R.
Apple – DVD – Compatibility

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Snow on Canadian Highways

I will never complain about snowfalls here again.
Photos of Snow On the Labrador Highway

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Mickey 3D “respire”

A very cool animation. I just love watching it over and over. It's all French, so I have no idea what it's saying, but I like to make up my own lyrics to the soundtrack since the animation provides such a vivid story.
respire

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Renicing tips and an applescript

I know relatively next to nothing about the inner workings of OSX, but one thing I do know is the idea of nice. Most operating systems have system for this. I've just been too unknowledgable to know what to change in OSX to get some speed boosts. Here's a page explaining it [...]

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Origins of April Fools Day

A day late, but interesting. I have no idea how true this is either.
Origin of April Fools

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