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Entries for October, 2004

Google Desktop Search

Google has announced that their Desktop Search software is coming to Mac OS X. No word on when, or if it will beat OS X.4, a.k.a. Tiger’s “Spotlight” technology to the market.
UPDATE: Apparently this is not true. Google has not announced the software for Mac OS X, they just indicated it would take a whole [...]

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Happy Birthday, Kristin!

Happy Birthday, Kristin! You are the love of my life. I cannot imagine life now without you. I cannot wait until Friday when you become my wife and I become your husband, the continuing process of us becoming us.

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Dear Swing-Staters…

For all of you fortunate individuals who live in the swing states during this election, I’d just like to say that I hope and pray that you will vote for Kerry. If you’re undecided and Kerry doesn’t really do it for you, I understand, but, nevertheless, I think you should vote against Bush. [...]

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iPod and iTunes Hacks: Got my copy!

I just received my copy of iPod and iTunes Hacks via UPS this morning. Congrats to Hadley Stern for the hard work! The book looks great. For those of you eager to flip directly to the hacks written by yours truly as soon as you receive your copy, here’s the breakdown:
Hack #21: p.93 [...]

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iPod and iTunes Hacks: Got my copy!

I just received my copy of iPod and iTunes Hacks via UPS this morning. Congrats to Hadley Stern for the hard work! The book looks great. For those of you eager to flip directly to the hacks written by yours truly as soon as you receive your copy, here’s the breakdown:

Hack #21: p.93 [...]

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Context and KRS-ONE

I’m glad to read this:

For the record, I am an American philosopher. I speak and seek truth. If the slander that the Daily News has printed regarding my political views has disrespectfully offended anyone in any way I truly apologize. Again, it was never my or Hiphop’s intent to disregard, disrespect or demean the tragedy [...]

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iPods 4G Anonymous

My new rant, iPods 4G Anonymous, is ready for reading over at AppleMatters. Check it out.

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Cool things of note…

Alex Ross on Radiohead—The Searchers: Radiohead’s unquiet revolution
A legal torrent file—Wired Mag’s Creative Commons CD
iPod Photo
Talk of podcasting the Academy

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Guernica

I just received an email announcing Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics:

We are at once a political blog cum literary review, an international art museum with no suggested donation, a travel journal, a Thomas Paine pamphlet, a group of non-partisan dissidents without a forum, an unauthorized biography of the times, a gang of well [...]

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T Minus Two Weeks and Half an Hour…

Well, two weeks and about 30 minutes from right now as I write this, I will be standing in a tux at my wedding. Crazy!

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William Gibson on the Novel as Propoganda

Interesting. I especially like this phrasing: “…writing a good novel, in the end, is about relinquishing control of the text.”

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Two in one week: Death to Microsoft

Double the C.K.-goodness over at AppleMatters this week: Death to Microsoft is up and ready for your reading.

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No New PowerBooks for the Holidays

Over on MacCentral, during the introduction and description of the new iBooks, Jim Dalrymple quotes the vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing, David Moody, as saying, “This new line-up of iBooks, along with the current PowerBooks we have will make-up the complete portable line-up we will be offering for the holidays.”

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File Under Interesting/Mischief-Making

TV-B-Gone. Interesting…

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