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

A proposal that won’t help

Michael Sippey: A MetaFilter Proposal... essentially, make people pay for the privilege to post with virtual credits earned through high ratings of previous posts.

Even that wouldn't be enough to make me want to read MetaFilter. And I fear it wouldn't work. Not enough people are going to take the time to yay/nay a post.

And another thing. Censorship. If your opinion isn't popular enough you're not going to get the credit. MetaFilter is cliquey and pop-trendy and inner-circle enough without turning it into a big circle jerk.

Sweet deal on RAM and Word/Entourage SE

Power Your Power Mac - 512MB/MS Word/Entourage

As seen on Apple's Hot Deals site, get 512 MB RAM and the Word 2001 / Entourage 2001 SE bundle for $179.

You can upgrade to Office v.X for only $149 if you have the Word/Entourage SE bundle, so this deal gets even better if you upgrade.

And you might need all that RAM to run Office.

It’s here!

Max's copies of the WebObjects book arrived, and he brought one into work today!

I'm so excited! Hopefully mine will be waiting for me when I get home today.

Update:

Well I finally sneaked a look at the book. It's nice! It's not 1000 pages like they say on Amazon. Not even close. It's 444 pages + 15 pages on index + TOC + blah. I haven't had a detailed look yet, but from flipping through it, I'd say it has definite promise.

RE: Canadian shot dead in Kuwait

Finally, 19 days after I found a tiny blurb about this on the BBC News site, I find an actual story in the Canadian media about this.

CP: Two accused in death of Canadian

Expos on the bubble?

Selig says contraction still viable option

Bummer! I'm not a baseball fan but I wouldn't want to see the Expos gone... I don't know the whole story though. Do the fans support them, or are they just having problems competiting because of the exchange rate and taxes?

EchoStar to buy DirecTV

CNET.com: EchoStar to buy DirecTV for $25 billion

I guess that means that eventually EchoStar customers will be able to get NHL Centre Ice, which previously was only available to DirectTV customers in the USA, and Bell ExpressVu customers in Canada.

MSN.what?

rc3.org: Rafe sums up the IE-only-MSN situation perfectly:

And that is why I'm not upset about it! Thanks Rafe!