Mac OS X drivers are now available for Microsoft's USB Keyboards.

I uninstalled the 3rd party USBKeyswapMS kext I had been using (to swap the Windows and Alt keys to match the layout of the Mac Command and Option keys) and then install MS' drivers. So far so good. All the blue keys on the top of the keyboard work now.

Zang!!! (thumbs up)

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Scripting News: "I retired the Google Box on this page."

Great, now let's put 'em all out to pasture!

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Four Canadians dead in Afghan mission

Our thoughts and prayers go out tonight to the familes of the deceased. We are so sorry for your tragic loss.

The AP story.

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Yahoo! News: Dutch Government Falls Over Srebrenica Massacre

Brutal.

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Yahoo! News: Civil Rights Lawyers to Sue Ashcroft

It's too bad the lawyers aren't sponsored by the government in the name of fighting terrorism, otherwise they could just put Ashcroft in indefinite custody and make him watch simulated child pornography every day.

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As I mentioned yesterday, I received a copy of dynAuthor, a Frontier suite I wrote over 5 yrs. ago. It's a multi-user web-based website editing and publishing environment for Frontier's Website Framework.

Version 2.0b1 was tested on Mac OS (8.x I presume), and Windows NT 4. It was quite a pleasant surprise to see it run without modification on Radio 8 on Mac OS X. Neither the app or the operating system even existed when that code was released. That's impressive... I guess the code was cleaner than I give myself credit for. ;-) Of course what's 10x more impressive is that Radio 8 for Mac OS X is so totally backwards compatible! Kudos to UserLand. :-)

I still had to replace UserLand's copy of webServer.sendPartial with my own, since it was broken then and is still broken now, but that's no big deal since it's all but deprecated. dynAuthor is probably the only suite that still tries to use sendPartial. The only other thing I had to do was copy the CGI responder from an old copy of Frontier into user.webserver.responders.

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Vancouver Sun: Huge hydrogen stores found below Earth's crust

I also read this NYTimes article which suggested that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (in Alaska) might only reduce U.S. dependency on oil imports by 4 or 5 percent within 10 years. So much for drilling in Alaska being the cure-all to U.S.'s problems with its oil interests in the Middle East.

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In the morning my accountant told me I owed $2x in federal taxes and $x in California taxes. Later in the afternoon she told me she made a mistake in the fax she sent me with that info... it was actually $2x in federal taxes and -$x in California taxes!

The $x I still owe hurts, but not nearly as bad as $3x!!!

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Web master - Fans sense massive hit for Marvel's Spider-Man

I haven't been this excited about a movie for a LONG, LONG time.

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