Saturday, November 18, 2000

Hack the Planet Prime: i know what i've seen
The new semantic music Web has started to converge: Vorbis, LyricFind, MusicBrainz, Relatable, FairTunes. Curiously, Radio UserLand doesn't connect to any of these systems AFAIK.
dangerousmeta
now comes the 'work' part. closing on the house on tuesday; we have until the end of the month to move out of our current rental. that means CLEANING. :^( seeing as how we have almost an acre to tend at the rental here, i went outside today to begin raking, getting rid
LinuxPPC, Inc. | Press Area
February 14, 2000 -- Macworld Expo, TOKYO, Japan -- LinuxPPC Inc. has unveiled LinuxPPC 2000 on the floor of the Macworld Expo in Tokyo. LinuxPPC 2000 leapfrogs other PowerPC distributions by being the first with an entirely graphical installation process.

Friday, November 17, 2000

A Four Dimensional Maze
In this maze, each of the large squares represents a two-dimensional slice of the maze. You are the blue square; you can move on white squares, but not red ones. You move by either clicking on a small square that is in the same large square and shares a side with your present square, or by clicking on a small square that is in the same position as your present square, on a large square that shares a size with your present large square. If you aren't sure if a move is legal, try it. If you're allowed to move on a square from your present square, the computer will let you; if you can't make that move, nothing bad will happen -- you just won't move anywhere. The goal is to get to the upper right-hand corner.

Wednesday, November 15, 2000

Brochu Shareware

CalcWorks has been updated to include the same color themes as CalcWorks
SE (see below)! Also new is the addition of many more conversions to
both CalcWorks and CalcWorks SE, including most popular currencies.
Registration entitles you to use either CalcWorks or CalcWorks SE.
Columnist ruminates on Mac OS X-Oracle conspiracy
David Coursey of ZDNet News wants to know whom Apple is building Mac OS X for: its customers or Oracle Corp.'s CEO Larry Ellison.

"Isn't it strange a company that long ago lost its enterprise customers is building an enterprise operating system?" Coursey asks in an online column. He says to consider the following facts:
iWon - News
Gore Proposes Statewide Recount in Florida
November 15, 2000 8:18 pm EST
By Paul Simao

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Democrat Al Gore proposed on Wednesday a statewide recount of Florida's disputed presidential election as a way to solve the increasingly bitter fight between him and Republican George W. Bush over hand recounting of votes.

Monday, November 13, 2000

The Register
Apple may indeed be preparing a full x86 version of MacOS X, according a source cited by Ars Technica.

The Ars report's writer mentions bumping into a old programming chum who claimed that Apple recently approached him to join the team porting MacOS X over to the Intel platform.