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Wow, Bill not only blogs, but he’s also running for president. Go, Bill!
Mactopia: Why do you say “Oops!” after hitting send?
Fortune has a good article on Apple’s new music service. Ultimately Jobs hopes to offer millions of songs, including older music that hasn’t yet made it to CD. “This industry has been in such a funk,” sighs singer Sheryl Crow. “It really needs something like this to get it going again.” Here are some pictures from the Apple Event.
Oni Central: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 :: So what’s up with Oni 2 (or whatever it’s called)? I get much e-mail asking me if I have any information on Oni 2, if there is anything new to report, etc. I have posted what I was able to divulge, and there have been things I was told no to post. Must… control… self…
Apple has hit the nail on the head. I predict huge success for their new music service. They’ve managed to get to the sweet spot: a buck a song. I’ve been saying for five years that online music will be profitable when it reaches a buck a song.
The interface is great, and I like that you can buy an entire album for ten bucks, with cover art. Unlimited burning is sweet, too.
Why does it always take Apple to step in and show how things can be done?
I’ve pretty much been taking a break from working on Frequency this weekend. I’ve been spending time with Gracie and, with help from my father-in-law, finishing up the plumbing. The copper is almost all gone; we’re almost all CPVC plumbing now. Not that there’s anything wrong with copper; but CPVC is sure a lot easier to work with and fix. No leaks yet!
Now I need to knuckle on the Windows build of Frequency. It’s about 95% there. The first release on Windows will be 1.1, and will coincide with the 1.1 release for Mac Classic and Mac OS X. From then on, I hope to keep the versions and feature sets in synch. I plan to have 1.1b2 (second beta) out to Windows testers this week. Kudos to Bill, by the way, who has not only taken to blogging like a fish to water, but is full of ideas about Frequency. Thanks, Bill. I knew there was a reason I picked you for my best man!
Been spending a lot of time reading the REALbasic lists this weekend. What a flamefest!
Liza Mundy: “People ask: Where are your children?” she says, drinking from a water bottle during a break. She feels that her infertility is embarrassing, deeply private…
You can take these tests to find out your empathizing quotient and systemizing quotient. I won’t reveal my scores, but I’ll say that I came out balanced somehow.
One of my favorite poems: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains.
Bill’s still blogging, and now he’s sucking up, too. 🙂
Some Bloggers never die. Kinda creepy, really.
Andy Ihnatko, one of my heroes, is “slumming it” with slower machines, and finding that life isn’t so bad. I’m currently slumming it with a 500 MHz TiBook, while my main machine, Scooby, is back at Apple, currently “waiting for parts.”
Edgar Codd, a great computer scientist, is no longer with us.
Rick Aristotle Munarriz: So, forgive me for donning salmon flippers and making an upstream push, but I think Apple buying Universal Music Group would be a brilliant move. I guess we’ll know soon enough.
Gates testifies: Gates testified that the litigating states’ proposed remedy would harm Microsoft’s business in three ways: It would jeopardize development of future versions of Windows; hamper the company’s efforts to promote hardware and software products that work well together; and imperil the “central role” played in protecting intellectual property. Oh, well, cry me a river. You were found guilty!
Speaking of Microsoft, Here’s a list of Microsoft weblogs.
Also speaking of Microsoft, here’s a great article on why Word is not a document exchange format.