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Apple's non-announcement of the non-service they'll perhaps not be providing to music listeners (can you tell I'm trying to say it has not been announced or confirmed?) has once again riled up the stupid and whiny: I pay 100 bucks a year for .Mac. I expect Apple to offer either first 30 songs for free […]

This made me laugh. Some people just don't get it. Heads up to those about to click on the link: the author gets it. The person who wrote the argument he dismantles does not.

I've long joked that I wanted to start an organization named "PETA" for "People Eating Tasty Animals." After all, if you're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? I'm not opposed to vegetarians - I'm just not one of 'em. I am, however, against PeTA. They are so blatantly aggressive, and […]

I must say that I agree with Judi on this one. Blogging is attractive because it's not canned, it's not "professional," and it's, for lack of a better word, more "personal." The distinction between "Pro" and "Amateur" can not be made based on how well someone writes. It can't be made based on how well […]

Rentzsch should have asked him about that fabulous "white paper" of a year or two ago. Y'know, the one that gave the reasons why REALbasic, using Carbon, was soooo much better than Cocoa. The one that was a laughingstock in the developer arena for many months (and still is). Oh well. Some day I'll write […]

Details are just beginning to come in, but here are the rough bits as I know them right now. Apple is beginning its own music service (perhaps) At least 4 of the 5 major record companies are with Apple on this (maybe) That'd be freakin' awesome! (could be) The LA Times, Railhead, and MacCentral have […]

Calling Brent Simmons. Paging Brent Smmons. Judi has uncovered a bug I believe I can confirm: feeds in NNW show up 4:55 off. Some examples (the NNW-displayed time is a link to the article in question): <dc:date>2003-03-03T17:35:17-05:00</dc:date> shows up as 12:40 PM <dc:date>2003-03-03T18:00:19-05:00</dc:date> shows up as 1:05 PM <dc:date>2003-03-03T17:44:09-05:00</dc:date> is shown as 12:49 PM Any […]

I was thinking of making some additions to my DVD collection, and I figured I'd check out the current offers offers at Columbia House. Turns out I can get five DVDs for $0.49 if I buy four in the next two years at regular pricing. Great! Sign me up. But first, let's do the math…

The Services menu in Mac OS X suffers from two main problems: It's not customizable Nobody knows where it is It seems to me that if the Service Menu were put in the top-right corner of the menu bar (à la the Scripts menu) and it were configurable to remove services from applications I never […]

The Florida heat has claimed another victim: my rearview mirror. I went to deposit some checks and pick up some McDonald's for lunch (they didn't get my order right again - I'm done with Mickey D's) and it was hanging by the electrical cords used to power the lights. Driving without a rearview mirror is […]

Happy 03/03/03. I've always liked days like this. They're fun, they're quirky, they only happen once per year at the most (though 01/02/03 happened this year too), and often only every 11 years (3/3/33).

Far be it from me to ignore a woman in distress. She's quite clearly calling out for links! i got a vibrator for my birthday! and just what i wanted! (i lied about the trampoline.) double w00t! you're probably wondering if you'll ever hear from me again. i know, i know. don't worry, though, the […]

5:56pm: Feanor: didn't Stuart Cheshire write Bolo? 5:56pm: Toad: up 5:56pm: Toad: yup 5:56pm: mikeash: indeed 5:56pm: Feanor: he wrote Rendezvous 5:56pm: mikeash: all hail King Stuart

Thank you for visiting the site of the foremost expert on Joe Millionaire "winners" Zora and Evan. Yes, that's correct: I am the world's foremost authority on Zora and Evan. According to Google, anyway. My previous entry on Zora and Evan has put me at the top of Google's search results for this topic. Interesting. […]

I hate multiple TrackBacks. They're like spam: the burden of time and effort is on the recipient, and besides turning TrackBacks for an entry off, there's nothing you can really do to prevent multiple TrackBacks from the same article from being attached to your entries. Once a day I have to delete a duplicate TrackBack. […]