Apple’s AppleCare rocks. I brought in my TiBook on Saturday and it arrived back at the store today. I’ll be picking it up after work.
So now that I have it all happy again it’s going on the market. I’m ready to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Here’s the specs:
I feel like I’m one of the last people to jump onto the bandwagon. I’ve been using Proteus 2.0 on my mac for the last few weeks and really liking it, so I haven’t done much IMing from my PC. Last night after having an inane number of ‘rate errors’ (whatever the heck those are) when trying to log into AOL I decided to try Trillian. I have to say this is quite a slick program. I hope that Proteus takes some hints from it because it is really nice. And I’d like to see Trillian impliment tabbed conversations.
Poul Anderson. “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.” [Quotes of the Day]
Remember when you couldn’t browse the web without seeing a banner ad for NextCard? As of today cardholders will no longer be able to use their cards (though they will still be responsible for paying their balance). While the FDIC was able to sell off a small portion of the accounts, they estimate the closure will cost between 4300 and $400 million. Ouch.
Interestingly enough, their web site is still up and has a big button to sign up for a new card.
Two interesting things I bumped into this morning that seemed to compliment each other nicely. First was an article on c|net titled Sites bow to Microsoft’s browser king. The article talks about people who are still designing sites that are made to work in IE and ignore other browsers. Then I run into this post by Adam over on his blog:
One of my heroes, Peter Ford writes on schoolblogs.com: “ ”If a student leaves my class with the idea that Internet Explorer is the only internet browser then I have done him or her a disservice. They should have experienced Opera, Mozilla or others in their time under my influence. Then I can honestly say that they are learning generic skills that will equip them to make increasingly important choices as they reach the ‘real world’ threshold.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
While I do admit to using IE as a semi-primary browser for a while, Mozilla easily went and toppled it from its place. And I love the features in Mozilla. I haven’t seen a popup ad in ages (though they do still sneak through now and then).
Jon Udell has a great article over on O’Reilly Network. Here’s a snippet of what it is about:
Control your identity, or Microsoft and Intel will. We can choose accountability, or we can let the unholy alliance of Hollywood, Microsoft, Intel, and the government choose for us. The alliance, cleverly, pretends to solve problems that really annoy us, like spam and email worms. But these violations of trust won’t yield simply to trusted motherboards and operating systems. People have to assert (and prove) their claims of trustworthiness, and other people have to make judgments about those assertions. The PKI technologies haven’t yet perfected the art of binding real identities to virtual ones, but that’s just what will be needed on top of TCPA/Palladium in order to deliver the benefits that people actually want. [full story at O’Reilly Network] … [Jon’s Radio]
I’m definitely going to look into following the steps he outlines. Btw, O’Reilly gets a big BOO HISS for their ad placement on the second page. It starts out: Once enrolled, you can create one or more digital IDs. That process goes like this: and then there’s a bigass ad, THEN the steps listing the process. I’m sorry, I can understand needing to run ads to help support the site, but it really breaks the flow of the article the way it is.
It seems that you can now go to Ninja School. I wanna be a ninja!
Found via jenett.radio was Antipixel. I found a few interesting posts there within the last day or so. The first had to do with a thread on MacSlash on Apple and DRM. The second was about Ripley’s Believe it or not having problems finding freaks. Both are pretty good reads.
Adam writes about a new version of word:
New Version of word you just gotta try out online! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]