Monthly Archives: April 2003

Scary stuff from Kevin Sites: As we moved up on a final checkpoint, some men beckoned us to come a little bit closer. We looked at them. They didn’t look like Peshmerga. And they stopped us. And we told them that we were journalists. And they basically made us get out of the car and they told us we were American spies, started to get very angry with us, started to point their Kalashinikovs at us.

My taxes are done.

The Mac OS X release of Frequency is 99% done.

The Mac Classic release is about 90% done.

Life is good.

BBC: US tanks drove unhindered into public squares on the eastern bank of the Tigris for the first time… Wow.

Insuring your weenie: Krehling said the policy covers anything that happens to anyone or anything in a 50-foot radius of his hot dog cart, advice which includes him and his customers. Thanks for the link, Bill.

Just talked to my wife, who just talked to my sister. Apparently my nephew hasn’t worn pants since Saturday. Seems he’s more likely to use the potty when he’s not wearing pants.

John Dvorak: Right now, all things being equal, Apple should be able to grab half the market for operating systems. If it’s as aggressive as Microsoft was with Netscape and essentially gives away the OS to the installed base, Apple could possibly knock Microsoft out of the box completely. Hey, that’s great, John, but how does Apple make money by giving away its OS on hardware it doesn’t sell? Am I missing something?

The Girl Who Cried Webmaster: We took a table in the quietest spot I could find. I told her that I’d met with Whistleblower. At the mere mention of Whistleblower’s name, her face darkened. I don’t read AccordionGuy all that often, but I was intrigued by this story. It was so well written and so . . . kinda creepy, I guess.

Quiz: How well do you know these world-famous products? My final score: 60 out of 100.

Gruber on Dvorak’s article: This really isn’t worth debunking point-by-point. Just remember that Dvorak is pulling all of this out of his… [expletive deleted].

You know, whenever someone mentions Verizon, I think of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Why, you ask?

Remember the scene where T-1000 (wonderfully played by Robert Patrick), who was previously invincible, was frozen with (I believe) liquid nitrogen and shattered into a billion little pieces? That’s Bell. Then, when things warmed up, all the little pieces melted back into liquid and reassembled into T-1000 again. That’s Verizon. Think about it.

And if you haven’t seen T2, go rent it. Very good movie.