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Bravo! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping a group of ReplayTV users to sue the entertainment industry (meaning the MPAA) in order to keep the rights that current copyright law and legal precedent give them - the rights to record broadcast tv shows, to skip commercials, etc. -- the stuff you can do with every VCR in existence now. When will the industry learn? Ugh.
Unsanity has released Silk, a preference pane for Mac OS X that enabled Quartz text rendering in Carbon applications. Requires Mac OS X 10.1.5, available on Apple's site or in SoftwareUpdate.
Mark Pilgrim is happily hacking away on interesting uses for the HTML <link> tags a lot of bloggers have been putting up lately.
After a not-quite-but-almost-panicked weekend, I've got my CVS server rebuilt and up and running. Now to get the backup software on it.
AmphetaDesk continues to draw rave reviews, not least because its creator pays attention to his product's users, and is eager to listen to valid criticism if it will make the product better/faster/stronger, i.e., more useful.
(Updated) I now have my blogroll linked from the <head> of this blog (as seems to be all the rage). Blogrolling.com provides an RSS feed of my blogroll, and I used Conversant's rssBox macro to generate an OPML version of my blogroll.
Courtesy of the unix quote-spewing utility fortune:
Cohn's Law: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time reporting on the nothing you are doing.
OK, I finally got around to creating and populating a blogroll over at blogrolling.com. I know it's a fad perhaps, but I can't help it. (For those who don't know, a blogroll is a list of other blogs you read, and want to link to as a sign of respect.) The cool thing is that I now include my blogroll on this page via the RSS version of it. Now that's nifty.
I called Apple, the TiBook is still under warranty. I could buy a per-incident plan ($50/incident), let them talk me through checking that the dead pixels really are a hardware problem, then likely not pay for the incident.
Been checking out Amphetadesk again lately. Amphetadesk is a desktop RSS reader, currently in alpha for version 0.93. Its creator, Morbus (aka Kevin), has been doing a great job - Amphetadesk has a new architecture that makes for easy hackability, a virtue for any perl-based software, which Amphetadesk is.
While the rest of the world hunts terrorists or monopolists, India and Pakistan have had it up to their earlobes with each other and are amassing, well, masses of soldiers on the 2000 mile border between the two nations.
AKMA blogs Forgiveness, in a deep and touching way:
Forgiving wrongs requires us to take them utterly seriously as injuries to one another and to the relationships of which we form a part. And: I tell myself, "It doesn't matter"--but I am not the one who may make that discernment. I'm not in a position to know how badly Margaret wanted pepper on her eggs, nor even of whether she ought to have wanted pepper that much. David Weinberger follows up with: My religion, Judaism, ... puts particular stress on making whole what one has ruptured through one's bad behavior. Yes, you resolve not to do it again, and yes, you don't let that behavior rend the fabric of the relationship. But you also run out to the store immediately and buy Margaret some more damn pepper. As a married man (going on 4 years now) I find that these lessons are the most valuable, and the hardest to face, and the hardest to learn. Part of marriage to me is letting go of "I want"; every day, every hour, loving the other person more than yourself. You can do this (theoretically) because the other person is doing the same. Of course, we are none of us perfect, which brings us to the essential necessity of forgiveness.
Heh. Megnut says goodbye to Windows and ASP, and "Hellooooooooooo, Aqua!". Muahahahaha...
The Xopus project (I have no idea how to pronounce it) has released some code that lets you do WYSISYG editing in Mozilla. It's still pre-release quality, but the samples on their page are impressive.
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