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New user? Thursday, September 25, 2003
Two down, three to go
Last night I finally finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I've been wanting to finish it for over a month, just haven't had time, but in the last two nights I read half of the book to finish it off. Now I need to go get book three from Shane. I'll start on that next week.
50 million are right, 60 million are not
CNN: House votes for do-not-call registry
Oh, really?
News.com, March 6, 2001: Napster settlement chances appear dim
"It would be extremely good if the music industry would focus its energies into harnessing the power of file sharing," Tauzin said. "I think (the record companies and Napster) would want to solve this on their own. I think all of us would prefer that they did."'
It's too bad Congress could act in the interest of the consumer in one case but not the other.
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Good week, Mac dreams
Aside from being very tired and having intermittent cold/flu-like symptoms for the past week, it's been going great!
Things are going well, the market is picking up (worldwide and those which affect me directly), my Python Tutorial is nearly done (and we got an extension to finish them, thanks Alan!), and we have a very nice student from Japan staying with us this week. He's got a cool DoCoMo phone with a camera, it's pathetic to look at my crappy LG phone in comparison.
The new PowerBooks are out. They're so great, but to see them benchmarked against a dual G5... sigh, it's so hard to decided what to get (hypothetically speaking of course, I can't afford either, sadly)!
If I was getting a PowerBook I'd definitely splurge for the lunchtray 17" model. The extras are totally worth it in my book. If I was going to break the bank and get anything, it might as well be top of the line, because it's going to have to do me for 4 years.
If I was getting a G5 there's no question it would be a dual 2.0GHz model. The 1.6 is a black sheep, it'll be regarded as the "Yikes!" of the G5s (referring to the rushed, flawed first G4 PowerMacs), and the 1.8 doesn't make sense, price-wise, compared to having TWO processors for FAR less than twice the price. Oh, and two 23" Cinema displays please. ;-) I spec'd one out on the Apple store last week, it's only $8300+ USD. LOL!
Friday, September 12, 2003
HBO's K-Street show set back by Senate
CNN: Senators nix filming for HBO's 'K Street'
Do local or cable news crews ever go into these locations to do any filming? The news media is a commercial, for-profit venture too. Perhaps these HBO crews should have gotten press clearance. Hm, since it's a "fusion of reality and fiction", I guess that wouldn't work.
I definitely agree that those buildings shouldn't be exploited though. I'm just disappointed because I think a show about K-Street would be very interesting and enlightening, especially considering how things have changed on K-Street in the last couple of years. I wish they had made it a true reality/documentary show, rather than fictional.
