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Steve Jobs, WWDC Keynote: > "Mac OS 9 isn't dead for our customers, but it is for [developers]. Today we say goodbye to Mac OS 9 for all future development," said Jobs.

WWDC Keynote:

iChat: AIM-compatible messaging built in to Jaguar. Can create buddy list of anyone on the local network, as well. You can use your Mac.com name and don't need AOL account.

My parents, Jodi, and I went north to Sedona yesterday. We hiked up to Cathedral Rock, a breathtakingly beautiful formation with a view for miles and miles. It was about a .7 mile hike, with a rise of about 600 feet.

[thx Shifted Librarian] Time article on the next Matrix. Yummy.

I forgot to mention that Blue Shoe Diaries is back up and running after a brief (but too long!) GeoCities-inspired hiatus. Yay Angie! You rock.

We finally got our camera and new monitor! No time to blather on about them now, but you can see the monitor (and my lovely wife Jodi!) here (pics of course taken with the new camera):

weblogs.com is "having a spaz attack" (as anita says), and we in the blogging community are feeling the pain of centralization. Heck, I'm wandering the 'net aimlessly without my Blogtracker panel (fed by weblogs.com).

Dave has put up a fast loading version of Scripting News, as their static server is down. I have to admit whenever I see this version of Scripting News, I'm taken back to 1996, '97 when SN was small and fast. It makes me want to rip the images off my site and strip it down to nothing. FAST FAST FAST!

Ah.. Sunday afternoon. Nice lazy day. Jodi and I had a really full Saturday: we got up at 5 o'clock to go hiking at Squaw Peak. That about killed me, but I'm getting better. Squaw Peak is about an hour hike to the summit, but it's all going up - with no respite, it's like climbing stairs. By the time I got to the top I had almost vomitted, and my legs were so rubbery I about fell off the mountain (the top is all crags - you have to be mountain goat to stay put!) The view, however, is awesome - you can really get an idea of how huge the Phoenix valley is.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

• Frank Zappa

Wow. Apple's introduced new Powerbooks again:

Robert X Cringely is a tech columnist for PBS. This week his son died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), while lying in Robert's lap as he did his email. It's... horrible. My thoughts and prayers go out to Robert and his family.

Apple announces the new eMac: the education iMac.

Looks like Macromedia has got their whole lineup out in the new MX form now. I know Dreamweaver now runs on OS X (that link also has all the other areas that were improved in MX).

Oooooh, M$ has gotta HATE this, from IBM:

Together these two solve the problem of letting employees use Outlook on their PCs while connecting with their non-Microsoft e-mail servers.

Ok, follow me here. Jenny at The Shifted Librarian asked why people use Google over the local library when researching.

I had to add a new command to Sid: "Add Markup" opens a window with a single field, where you can put a tagname (I use it for 'blockquote' a lot) and Sid will insert it, or wrap the currently selected text with that tag.

Thanks to Iconfactory I now have a simple icon for Sid's .conv documents. Cooool. It's amazing how much more "real" your app looks with that little icon at the top of the document window...

Thanks to Iconfactory I now have a simple icons for Sid's .conv documents. Cooool. It's amazing how much more "real" your app looks with that little icon at the top of the document window...

yes, again. this is an edit.