After not being able to use my second monitor for ages, while it sat dead on my desk, taunting me, today I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.2.5 and voila! No more monitor-induced crashes!!! My TiBook does NOT require service, and I am now happily computing on twice the screen real estate! w00t!

If it weren't in the LATimes (user:annoying, password:annoying), I'd expect to see it on Crazy Apple Rumors... Apple is evidently in talks with Vivendi to buy Universal Music Group, in a move related to rumors of a new Apple online music service.

Today's PVP describes my current movie obsessions, perfectly.

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" border="0">Merlin points us to Clutter, a new Mac OS X app for the musically obsessed.

Bill Bumgarner, who was recently looking for a new weblogging tool, talks about the spate of suggestions he got.

Boxes and Arrows How-To: Creating a Controlled Vocabulary.

Chillin today at my buddy JP's house. He telecommutes on Tuesdays, so we're hangin' out today, working on our respective stuff.

Somehow this site (thanks Bill) seems like something Douglas Adams would have written. Awesome.

Wired has a totally cool article on the special effects in the new Matrix films, and how Gaeta and crew are stretching the limits of how realistic CG is done. Awesome! I cannot wait for this movie. May 15!!!!

Random Stuff:

• Thanks to Scoble linking to this post, I'm now #41 on Popdex. I'll be gone in a couple days, but it's been fun!
• TidBITS is looking for a CMS, Zope/Plone mentioned as a possibility.
• I rode 16 miles yesterday, in 1 hour, 20 minutes. My longest ride this year.

Scoble's got a series of posts and replies relating to a bill in Oregon that would make it law that state agencies would have to consider using open-source software. The first post is this one.

Dori responds to my earlier post with some good points.

This is too amazing to be true, but it is: Palestine-born US Citizen, and Intel employee Mike Hawash was arrested as a material witness by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and is being held without access to a lawyer, without being chanrged, in solitary confinement.

Every once in a while, you really need a hex editor. HexEdit seems to be the only freebie I've found for OS X.

Scoble says he was told that Jim Fawcette (of Fawcette Publishing) thinks weblogs are a waste of time.

Ok, so I nuke a cup of lukewarm coffee to warm it up. I take it out, and dump in a teaspoon of sugar. Very normal.

Dear Senator McCain,

Jason Kottke compares the unix philosophy and the Microsoft one:> If Unix development philosophy is small pieces loosely joined, Microsoft's philosophy is big chunks tightly coupled. Jason uses three words to describe how Microsoft keeps its developers: Friction, Inertia, and Marketing. FIM. I'm not saying that Microsft does not make some amazing products (not including Windows, at least to-date) but that (and this is from experience) it's an uphill battle to mix unix- and Windows-based applications in an environment, because the design philosophies are so different.

Another Apple rumor site.

This guy spells out how to enable Rendezvous support for unix services, webservers, etc. Niiice.