Thanks. I just posted this info on my web site. Can't wait for the hits to roll on in!
Jack Lemmon was recently seen on Delta Airlines next to Barbara Schett flying to the Tour de France (the Wimbledon of Amtrack), reportedly trying to avoid Paula Poundstone's fast and furious drafting of the lyrcis of Loana's Shakespear.
Speaking of MapBlast, I was redirected today from www.mapblast.com to home.vicinity.com.
Has the MapBlast web site gone away entirely? I had 25 map pages I used, and none of the URLs seem to work any more, it just hangs there with a grey screen indefinitely.
What a shame, I found MapBlast much easier to use than MapQuest.
Mac OS X is Apple's future. It's not going away because of some initial early-release teething pains.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- from the compiler course I took at college
I'm a graphic artist using a Mac, and I have installed and use OS X, but I can't use it for some of the major graphics tasks yet. I won't have our other Mac users install it yet (I'm the department Early Adopter and Go-To Guy for upgrades) until our Adobe applications work with it.
I was very glad to hear that FileMaker works much better with the 10.0.4 update. We use that as well, so we could roll our own databases without IS "help".
I'm terribly excited with pre-emptive multitasking, protected memory, etc. with OS X. I would have numbered it as Mac OS XI.XI (9.9!) but if not for some non-compatible apps I'd be using OS X all day long, even without some of the old OS 9 features and performance.
I have to second the nomination of James Lileks for his Bleats. He is a pretty techno-savvy writer but has an actual life and personality. The attraction for him is he gets to rip into things that he doesn't want to put into his syndicated or newspaper columns.
The difference between NBCi's "clicking on a word for more info," and a useful idea, is the same as the difference between "lightning" and "lightning bug".
(Apologies to M. Twain.)
So do I click on each word in "lightning bug" or just mentally add the results of the two different clicks?
You are driving around with your brand-new car, it cost you 3/4 of what you were expecting. Every 5 minutes of driving, a small heads-up ad appears on the left pillar of the windshield. It catches your eye for just a sec until you realize it's another ad, but ooops, that kid just ran out from nowhere on your right. You swerve left to avoid her and hit a light pole. That ad has been proven not to distract drivers, it's very discreet.
So you go to the emergency room with chest pains. While waiting for someone to tell you if it's a bruise or a heart attack, the nurse asks you to view this brief 5-minute video on a new kind of aspirin. Saves the hospital a lot of money on their drugs! Who could object, you have to wait for the doctor anyway, right? And now you can recognize the pain-reliever he gives you.
You're OK and leave to walk downtown. You need to use a restroom so head into a department store. The restroom is free, except that you have to read an ad on the bathroom door and punch in the correct multiple-choice answer to a question about the ad. Takes only a second, if it's that urgent then you should have started earlier.
Sometime the "free" things just end up costing more in the end.
I got a unique browser cookie from the Neiman-Marcus e-com server, which is supposed to automatically fool online retailers into giving me their best price.
Well, actually I just got the recipe from them. Only cost me $200, haven't tried it yet.
This attempt at stealing user's PayPal logins points up a very disturbing point:
How many of us use just *one* login/password combination for every free site under the sun?
A smart-but-unscrupulous fella (or gal, be fair) could open a web site with a wonderful little gimmie or gimmick, provide the service, then look through their *user-supplied* password/user name pairs and try them at more *interesting* sites like PayPal, myMortgage.com, PornoPreview.com, 401K.org, BankMe.com or even *gasp* Slashdot.
Just a warning to search yourself carefully, and stop using that one secret password that no one would ever guess in a million years: A secret password that you've entered anywhere is no longer a secret.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks. I just posted this info on my web site. Can't wait for the hits to roll on in!
Jack Lemmon was recently seen on Delta Airlines next to Barbara Schett flying to the Tour de France (the Wimbledon of Amtrack), reportedly trying to avoid Paula Poundstone's fast and furious drafting of the lyrcis of Loana's Shakespear.
Speaking of MapBlast, I was redirected today from www.mapblast.com to home.vicinity.com.
Has the MapBlast web site gone away entirely? I had 25 map pages I used, and none of the URLs seem to work any more, it just hangs there with a grey screen indefinitely.
What a shame, I found MapBlast much easier to use than MapQuest.
DZ
Mac OS X is Apple's future. It's not going away because of some initial early-release teething pains.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- from the compiler course I took at college
I'm a graphic artist using a Mac, and I have installed and use OS X, but I can't use it for some of the major graphics tasks yet. I won't have our other Mac users install it yet (I'm the department Early Adopter and Go-To Guy for upgrades) until our Adobe applications work with it.
I was very glad to hear that FileMaker works much better with the 10.0.4 update. We use that as well, so we could roll our own databases without IS "help".
I'm terribly excited with pre-emptive multitasking, protected memory, etc. with OS X. I would have numbered it as Mac OS XI.XI (9.9!) but if not for some non-compatible apps I'd be using OS X all day long, even without some of the old OS 9 features and performance.
I have to second the nomination of James Lileks for his Bleats. He is a pretty techno-savvy writer but has an actual life and personality. The attraction for him is he gets to rip into things that he doesn't want to put into his syndicated or newspaper columns.
The difference between NBCi's "clicking on a word for more info," and a useful idea, is the same as the difference between "lightning" and "lightning bug".
(Apologies to M. Twain.)
So do I click on each word in "lightning bug" or just mentally add the results of the two different clicks?
Yep, it's free. Who could object to that?
Here's the next ad campaigns:
You are driving around with your brand-new car, it cost you 3/4 of what you were expecting. Every 5 minutes of driving, a small heads-up ad appears on the left pillar of the windshield. It catches your eye for just a sec until you realize it's another ad, but ooops, that kid just ran out from nowhere on your right. You swerve left to avoid her and hit a light pole. That ad has been proven not to distract drivers, it's very discreet.
So you go to the emergency room with chest pains. While waiting for someone to tell you if it's a bruise or a heart attack, the nurse asks you to view this brief 5-minute video on a new kind of aspirin. Saves the hospital a lot of money on their drugs! Who could object, you have to wait for the doctor anyway, right? And now you can recognize the pain-reliever he gives you.
You're OK and leave to walk downtown. You need to use a restroom so head into a department store. The restroom is free, except that you have to read an ad on the bathroom door and punch in the correct multiple-choice answer to a question about the ad. Takes only a second, if it's that urgent then you should have started earlier.
Sometime the "free" things just end up costing more in the end.
I got a unique browser cookie from the Neiman-Marcus e-com server, which is supposed to automatically fool online retailers into giving me their best price.
Well, actually I just got the recipe from them. Only cost me $200, haven't tried it yet.
Don't spread this around.
This attempt at stealing user's PayPal logins points up a very disturbing point:
How many of us use just *one* login/password combination for every free site under the sun?
A smart-but-unscrupulous fella (or gal, be fair) could open a web site with a wonderful little gimmie or gimmick, provide the service, then look through their *user-supplied* password/user name pairs and try them at more *interesting* sites like PayPal, myMortgage.com, PornoPreview.com, 401K.org, BankMe.com or even *gasp* Slashdot.
Just a warning to search yourself carefully, and stop using that one secret password that no one would ever guess in a million years: A secret password that you've entered anywhere is no longer a secret.
I wanted to become a Luddite, but couldn't find the on-line registration form.