Month: July 2005

Scoble wonders what kind of contests Microsoft will do around Windows Vista.

Hmmm, how about guessing how many known-but-unfixed security vulnerabilities there will be when it ships? Kind of like guessing how many jelly beans there are in a 100 gallon aquarium. Sorry, Robert. My inner Macintosh bigot-demon got the best of me this morning But I promise I will never utter another Microsoft joke if it ships with support for Hawaiian, including a keyboard, sort order, date formatting and the other goodies that ship with OS X.

Podcasters Shutdown on .Mac.

I was about to unsubscribe from Geek News Central‘s RSS feed when I came across this interesting tidbit. I know a few people who were taking advantage of the previously unmetered bandwidth on their .Mac sites for hosting podcasts. One was hosting his latest shows on his .Mac site for the big rush, and then moving them over to his ISP when the initial new show rush was over. I haven’t asked if his strategy has changed. I know the owner of the ISP I use personally, and haven’t heard a peep from him about bandwidth issues, so I probably…

Who’s your great-great-great-great granddaddy?

[ From the NY Times, subscription required ] I found a copy of this article sitting in the waiting area of my daughter’s piano teacher. It talks about the works of Carl Czerny, a student and later assistant to Beethoven. What was interesting was to see the musical family tree drawn along the side of the article. Apparently Mālia’s piano teacher comes from the same line as the author of this article. Here is the lineage: Ludwig Van Beethoven \/ Carl Czerny \/ Theodor Leschetizky \/ Arthur Schnabell \/ \/ Leonard Shure Sundling \/ \/ Glenn Jacobson \/ Malia Donaghy…

OPML outliner demo.

I was tuned into Dave’s talk from Harvard yesterday; someone had set it up so that the video feed was viewable with some kind of Flash client. Audio wasn’t bad, cut out a bit, but that’s not unexpected these days. Mahalo to the crew that arranged for the feed and IRC channel. The OPML outliner sounds interesting, looks similar to the outliners in Frontier and Manila. No news as to progress on the Mac version. One bit of disappointing news is that it does not support Unicode, same as RU or Frontier. The kernel is now GPL – is anyone…

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