monkinetic the blog

Aaron Swartz has set up a new site where he’s discussing limitations to free speech. I don’t agree with absolutely everything he says there, but he makes some very good points as well. Bits Are Not A Bug.

Ack! I think Mail just had an aneurysm and forgot what spam looked like. I had finally switched my junk mail filter to automatic, and for about 2 months it was like a rock. I did not get a single spam in my inbox, and only 2 or 3 false positives.

Clark just showed up on my iChat buddylist, and instead of a status, there was some musical notes and the name of a Santana song! Whoa! Cool! So I harassed him about it and he pointed to a little prefpane app called iChatStatus. It updates your iChat status to show the currently playing song in iTunes. Coool! Also included are aplescripts to let iChatStatus show things like the web page you’re currently viewing, or the active application, and other goodies.

Clark was asked to write up a report on the status of the various intranet/website efforts in his anesthesiology department. In his words, “it’s not catching on”.

Heh. You’ll have to read most of this page to find the reference (or cheat and go here), but I like Mark Byron’s writing and his daily Biblical and political commentary. Good food for thought.

spiritual-chemotherapy

Heh. You’ll have to read most of this page to find the reference (or cheat and go here), but I like Mark Byron’s writing and his daily Biblical and political commentary. Good food for thought.

Read more about Mr. (no, wait, Dr.) Byron here.

Ok, I know I shouldn’t get sucked into this, but I can’t help it! MacRumors is suggesting Apple may sell OS X for x86 to give users an alternative to Microsoft’s Palladium spywareOS. Oh, please oh please oh please!