Friday, 19 October 2001

Thursday, 18 October 2001

"I love the smell of PowerPoint in the morning!

It smells like...

  ...marketshare."

- Lieut. Col. Ballmer, Apocal-X P

Wednesday, 17 October 2001

Sir, I hope that I am not the only person in the creative arts who feels great disquiet about the proposals outlined by the Home Secretary in the Commons today, to introduce legislation to outlaw what has been described as "incitement to religious hatred"... Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

[...] For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

Yours faithfully,
ROWAN ATKINSON

Monday, 15 October 2001

The DVR-A03 is the retail version of the same optical drive Apple bills as its Power Mac G4 "SuperDrive:" a mechanism that can record DVD-R and other optical media. The drive is now available for US$649. When the drive was introduced this past may, it carried with it a suggested retail price of $995. The cost of DVD-RW media has also dropped -- discs are now available for $15.99 each.

• No Return Address
• Restrictive Markings (such as 'PERSONAL' or 'SPECIAL DELIVERY')
• Strange Odor
• Excessive Postage (Possibly Mailed from a Foreign Country)
• Misspelled Words
• Addressed to Title Only (such as 'Security Manager') or has Incorrect Title
• Excessive Tape or String
• Badly typed or written
• Oily Stains, Discolorations, or Crystalization on Wrapper
• Protruding Wires
• Lopsided or Uneven
• Wrong Title with Name
• Rigid or Bulky

1. Handle with care. Don't shake or bump.
2. Isolate and look for indicators
3. Don't open, smell or taste
4. Treat it as Suspect! Call 911.

Sunday, 14 October 2001

Apple is making no major design changes to either portable, opting instead to boost the processing speed, memory and hard drive, sources said.

The updated Titanium PowerBook models are expected to sport new graphics chips from ATI Technologies, larger hard drives and faster processors. Sources said to look for 667MHz and perhaps 550MHz models. ... [Apple] is also expected to offer models with CD-rewritable drives and, at least optionally, combination CD-RW/DVD drives.