Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

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Hilarious! Go to MacOSdaily.com and watch the "Video of the week". This guy reminds me of Steve Jobs so much I could hardly pay attention to what he was saying. (hint, don't bother) Except, he doesn't cough like Steve does, he... clicks. One step at a time, oh intellectual one!

Anyway, I kind of liked MacOS Daily (MOSD... their acronym, not mine!) in its old incarnation, so I hope the new one will be good as well.

PS: At least it's not MOSR

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If you tried to e-mail me between 7:50 PM last night and 10:30 AM this morning, Pacific Standard Time, please re-send your message. There were problems with my ISP's mail server during that time period. Thanks!

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Dave Winer pointed to a nearly 3 year old DaveNet piece about Apple today. Here's a funny (to me anyway) quote:

"Cancel WebObjects, it's too confusing, grabs too much of the spotlight from the developer community, and it represents an insignificant revenue opportunity for a company as large as Apple."

LOL! The reality, nearly 3 years later: WebObjects has been the crown jewel of the NeXT deal (well, everything in the NeXT deal was a crown jewel, from the software to the people) and WebObjects brings in the 2nd most revenue to Apple on the software side. Only the MacOS itself brings in more money. Even though Apple gave WebObjects NONE of the spotlight.

WebObjects is the best tool for doing serious highly-scalable and highly-maintainable web application development on the market. It captures the awards and the biggest customers. (US DoD, and the US Postal Service, for example. Adobe. Toshiba. Toronto Dominion Bank. PASBC. )

Dave Winer responds with a Steve Jobs quote: "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth--and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."

And that's exactly what he did! They milked the MacOS for all it's worth, and they got busy on the next great things - iMac, Desktop Video, and Mac OS X. And they're still milking the Mac for all it's worth -- now it's called Carbon. There's still life in them APIs!

Microsoft may have won, but when the DOJ verdict comes through, Apple will have yet another opportunity. MacOS X for Intel. (including Carbon) According to a highly snickered at sources, that's what Apple's up to. Since most of Carbon already runs on Intel in the form of QuickTime for Windows (and thus the logic isn't tied to the PPC or the MacOS ROM toolbox), and the rest of OS X has been running on Intel for over 5 years in the form of OpenStep and Mac OS X Server, this isn't as unbelievable (technically speaking, anyway) as it sounds!

(cough) I linked to PASBC because I was a member of the team that made it!

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Wired: Mattel Sues Over Blocking Hack. Two awesome programmers cracked Mattel's CyberPatrol censorware product which was written by not-so-awesome programmers (hackers, if you will).

One of the uber-programmers, Matthew Skala is a subscriber to the VLUG mailing list which I also subscribe to. He lives in my home town of Victoria. We went to the same University. This is strange, I'm not used to this kind of thing happening in my back yard! There's been a lot of talk about this ridiculous situation on the VLUG list. Go Matthew Go!