Woohoo! My ADC Select Orientation Kit arrived, along with the OS X Public Beta and OS X Developer Tools CDs!

That's the good part... the bad part(s):

It also came with an OS X T-Shirt. Why is that bad? I bought one of those a few months ago on Apple's Starting Line website -- total cost with shipping: $70 CDN! (Yeah I got shit for that)

It also came with an OS X System Overview book. Why is that bad? I bought one of those a few months ago on Fatbrain. Total cost with shipping: $30 CDN!

It also came with an OS X Public Beta CD (duh). Guess what, I bought one of those already too, before I decided to join the ADC Select program. Total cost with shipping: $58.14.

That's $160 wasted. Good job.

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Dave Winer: discuss.userland is taking a holiday -- "I just changed the configuration of this DG, only editors can post. Basically this puts the DG into read-only mode. If you have a comment you want to post in response to something on Scripting News, post it on some other site, and send me a pointer and I'll read it. If I feel it adds an important fact or point of view I'll point to it on Scripting News."

Whaddaya know, he did it! This is great, the soap operas can end and UserLand can focus on making software again. As a UserLand Software user this makes me soooo happy!

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This message posted from Mac OS X Public Beta.

Update: I've spent the day with the OS X Public Beta, and I'm extremely impressed, as an end-user and developer. I look forward to pushing this system further and further.

It's also very comforting knowing that this is UNIX, and knowing that I have a really good Java 2 implementation to work with!

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Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau passed away at about 3PM eastern time today.

He was a great great man, and will be missed dearly.

(Not surprisingly, all Olympic coverage has ceased on the CBC.)

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Me on the UserLand DG: Re: Speaking Up About The DG -- "Do we really need discuss.userland.com? I don't think so. We have editthispage.com, weblogs.com, free-conversant.com, etc etc. Everyone who wants to have a discussion can do that..."

Further down...

"P2P is about decentralization. I think it would be really cool to see how far we can take that. Let's be brave and do it, I bet it will open up a whole new can of worms that can lead to more great tools and services from UserLand and their partners."

I invite you to reply to that message here in the spirit of what I am proposing. (or do it on the UserLand DG, but it's not my DG to invite you to) If discussion happens here I hope Scripting News will link to it, which I think could be the new way discussions start at Scripting News.

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Wind-X: Windows for OS X (from Microsoft, no less)

This HAS to be a joke, right?

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Google search on Jim Roepcke.

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O'Reilly Network: OS X Brings Unix Stability to the Mac -- "With a FreeBSD architecture native to Mac OS X, it's likely that the tables will turn in these 3D computation benchmarks, as well as with other tasks. Just imagine the new hot software you can write for OS X."

This is a really great article about Mac OS X. I can't wait for my copy of the OS X beta to get here! It shipped 10 days ago, argh! :-)

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