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Book: Sharpe’s Fortress
The San Francisco Public Library came through with flying colors, sending me email notice that all three of the Sharpe novels I had requested were awaiting my pickup a couple of weeks ago. The first one I read was Sharpe’s Fortress. This novel inserts Richard Sharpe, our British military hero, into the assault on Gawilghur,…
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Apple switches from dates to numbers for software updates
Until now, Apple’s Software Updates for Mac OS X have been labeled with a date, such as Security Update 2004-12-02. Yesterday, Apple released Security Update 2005-001, the first with a new numbering scheme. Not sure, but may just be security updates, not all software updates… not that it matters. I noticed this myself, and then…
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Yes, Steve, I’m listening
Steve Rubel calls me out by name in his prediction that tagging will spread everywhere. At least one major news outlet – perhaps CNET – will also start use tags to organize their stories and feedback. (John Roberts, you listening? I just gave you a free idea!) Rest assured that I’m aware of folksonomies, even…
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Restart the clock
OK, the week-plus “outage” is over. Turned out to be a bad third-part RAM module, so I’ll be testing Ramjet on their lifetime warranty for a 512MB module shortly.
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iMac G5 problems
Blogging from the Apple Store in Corte Madera, where I’m trying to get an iMac problem diagnosed. Been cursing it all weekend… hope this helps. Having a desktop-based blogging software package (Radio) is a problem when you want to blog from another computer, obviously. I’ve backed up the data, but if this requires a new…
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CNETAsia dropping print journals
No fun to read that CNET Networks is shutting down some print journals in Asia. Today Online has the story: CNet Asia closes down print arm to focus on online portal. IN A move that has shaken up the tech news industry, CNet Asia will shut down its entire print arm and focus on its…
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filtered, not stirred
While I’m fond of time here at clock, other metaphors and words strike a chord in my non-musical brain. One of them is filter, so I have to enjoy filtered, the blog of Mark Jones, Deputy Managing Director at IDG Communications in Australia. Then, when Mark writes a post titled 2005: A year of attention…
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Now that’s important information
Via Tomalak’s Realm, I found this history of the tab at Technology Review, which gives a bit of background on card catalogs as part of the article “Keeping Tabs.” The tab was the idea of a young man named James Newton Gunn (1867š1927), who started using file cards to achieve savings in cost accounting while…
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What if you have more than one iPod?
OK, this is a theoretical question, because I don’t have a single iPod, and even with the new iPod Shuffle I don’t plan on getting one. But I wonder what happens if you have more than one iPod per computer? Does the new lower-priced Shuffle coexist peacefully with its more expensive brethren? Aren’t there some…
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Aggregator market share
Is it a problem for an industry when there are more caveats than statements about one of its key measurements? Yes, though I suppose it’s an opportunity, too. Dick Costolo on the FeedBurner blog put out their current information on RSS aggregator market share, leading with the many, many caveats that are necessary. It’s still…
Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts