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Holy crap! You miss the news for one day and something totally unexpected happens! Al Gore has joined Apple’s Board of Directors! Check out the Slashdot discussion here. Wow.

Here comes Yellow Dog Linux 3.0. Cool. I like Yellow Dog. Although, to be perfectly honest, I have precious little use for it with OS X around. But it includes Anaconda, and that’s very cool.

News.com: Programmers disclosed a security hole this week in a part of the heart of the Linux operating system that could let users of a machine take it over even if they don’t have privileges to do so. Ouch. Maybe I don’t want to install Yellow Dog.

Check out Dave’s Frequency Test Drive here. He’s taking Frequency for a spin to help with testing. Also a big thanks to Andre Garzia of Soapdog Software for his help and feedback. My targeted release date for the Mac OS X version is April 15. Hopefully the Mac Classic and Windows versions will follow quickly.

Where have I been, by the way? Doing a clean install on Scooby. He decided to stop booting yesterday. I also reset the power manager, but I’m still having battery problems. Guess it’ll have to go back to Apple soon. Crap.

Hmmmm. I’m seriously considering moving from Entourage to Apple Mail. I took a long look at Apple Mail tonight for the first time in a long time. It’s nicer than I remember. I really like the nice integration with Address Book and iCal, too. My biggest concern is how it handles threads. One thing I love in Entourage is the ability to view mailing lists in nested threads. I don’t believe Apple Mail offers that. Otherwise, I’m sorely tempted.

I just wish I could ditch QuickMail for it. I’m sick of QuickMail. I’ve been using QuickMail since 1997 and it’s always pretty much sucked. And at work, we have about a dozen people suffering from this weird QuickMail problem where all their mail starts going into “Dead Mail” instead of the inbox. Very annoying. No known cause. Sometimes re-installing QuickMail fixes it.

Why do some Radio weblogs take so long to load? Is it the templates?

Added my Top Ten Albums to the Top Ten Lists. And I did not include the album that my band recorded in 1997.

Headache. Sore throat. Lots of gunk draining. Very cold.

And so it begins.

New pictures added in the Pictures section: Jen’s 30th Birthday Party and new pictures of Gracie.

Now I’m showing Frequency to Mike. Let’s see if he likes it.

Thomas the Crash Engine? Sometimes I read stuff and I can barely believe that these people are breeding.

Image Rodeo looks very cool. I may have to try it out.

Julio Ojeda-Zapata: If Apple can mount such a formidable challenge to PowerPoint, I’m awfully curious to know what it’s planning in the word-processing space.

SoftwareToGo? More here.

Click here to download the Internet (this is stupid, but I laughed at it).

GM is pulling their electric car off the market. Slashdot discussion here. Not to be outdone, click Opera Software will cease production of its hybrid vehicle.

Code Monkey: See, back in 1998 I became the owner of a South American woolly monkey, whom I named Paco, with the intention of training him to assist in my freelance graphic design work… It was no trick at all to train Paco as a graphic designer. Within weeks, he was doing production work in Quark XPress… It didn’t take long to begin wondering if I could teach Paco to program, too. I love Daring Fireball.