Monthly Archives: August 2004

magic bike

August 30, 2004 – 7:23 PM
"I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream."... Read More »
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Macworld Paris

August 30, 2004 – 7:10 PM
iPod hype ahoy... Read More »
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More Longhorn

August 30, 2004 – 7:04 PM
"In short, Longhorn is starting to look less like Tiger than another Apple OS effort: Copland, the ill-starred mid-‘90s development campaign that let Windows 95 seize the marketing initiative. Is it time to turn the tables?"... Read More »
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Big surprise there

August 30, 2004 – 6:53 PM
Anyone shocked? WinFS Axed From Longhorn Client and Server.... Read More »
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Educating auntie

August 30, 2004 – 6:50 PM
"I tell her it's just "pollution" on the Internet, and she needs some help. It's a concept she can understand." Meet the polluted Internet.... Read More »
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There Aint no Sanity Clause: Rupert’s little Melbourne paper off to a flying start.

August 30, 2004 – 5:21 PM
Lord Sedgwick lovingly points to the Hun's start to election coverage.... Read More »
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Well, that was quick

August 29, 2004 – 5:03 AM
Security Watch Special: Windows XP SP2 Has a Dangerous Hole... Read More »
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A dirty hood

August 29, 2004 – 4:29 AM
Bloody Volvo driver.... Read More »
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Nick Bradbury cripples crackware…

August 25, 2004 – 1:27 AM
"That's right, people who use a pirated version of FeedDemon are emailing me for support."... Read More »
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blush

August 25, 2004 – 1:23 AM
"So far I like Raena's design the best."... Read More »
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Little-i internet?

August 21, 2004 – 9:58 PM
According to Wired, it's just the little-i internet now. Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. Why? The simple answer is because... Read More »
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Scobleizer mini-markover

August 18, 2004 – 4:44 AM
Robert "Design is for wimps!" Scoble finally capitulated to the cries of the masses and threw out a challenge to redesign his site -- making only changes to the stylesheet. Whoever does a design that he ends up using gets... Read More »
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Password protection and MT

August 15, 2004 – 6:25 PM
Adam Kalsey has a dandy way to restrict your Movable Type blog to authors only.... Read More »
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Olympic moments

August 14, 2004 – 8:37 PM
So I stayed up to watch the Olympic ceremony. [07:17] <schmoop> (me) by god [07:17] <schmoop> the olympic cauldron is a giant blunt! [07:17] <snarkywench> rofl, doooooood. [07:17] <Wulfpillow> Say what? [07:17] <schmoop> the olympic torch-thing, the big one [07:17]... Read More »
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astonishing

August 14, 2004 – 12:39 AM
'This morning, they're doing bag searches again to get on the ferry. And the guy doing the searches pulls me aside and says, "Sir, I feel that I need to confiscate this book."'... Read More »
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Torrent to the rescue!

August 10, 2004 – 10:22 AM
Apparently Service Pack 2's slow release is because of bandwidth concerns. Fear no more: download it with bittorrent.... Read More »
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WP search gripes: solutions!

August 7, 2004 – 1:17 AM
One of the things that craps me off about WordPress is its search behaviour. First, I don't like what happens when you do a search and get only one result -- it just pops you directly into that entry, without... Read More »
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Terror alerts and Bush approval

August 6, 2004 – 10:37 PM
See a nifty chart comparing same over at JuliusBlog. Veddy interesting.... Read More »
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Breed! BREED!

August 5, 2004 – 6:25 AM
You may recall from an earlier post that I commented on people asking me when -- not if, but when -- I'm going to sprout some wee ones of my own. Hell, even the politicians are nagging: after the May... Read More »
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Incredible story

August 5, 2004 – 4:17 AM
Adrian relates a modern tragedy - 'Immediately I was required to stabilise not one, but two accident victims simultaneously. They’d been cleaned up by the taxi. The driver never saw them, wandering in the middle of the road, arms around... Read More »
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Phisch phood

August 3, 2004 – 8:04 AM
"...doesn't it strike you as a trifle irresponsible on the part of Google to do something like this? I mean, doesn’t this make users more vulnerable to phishing?"... Read More »
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ToastyHost!

August 2, 2004 – 11:33 PM
Mitu's started up some great budget web hosting.... Read More »
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Voter apathy, or lack of hope?

August 2, 2004 – 7:41 PM
'Emma and I asked a woman if she wanted to get registered, and she said, "No. Voting won't change anything. There's never going to be anyone to represent us around here."'... Read More »
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Get well soon!

August 2, 2004 – 7:33 PM
Yahoo! News - Apple CEO Jobs Says Has Cancer Surgery... Read More »
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Andrew Bolt: ‘wah wah wah wah’

August 1, 2004 – 4:19 AM
'It doesn't figure, does it - racist Australians choosing a Fijian-born man as the most popular of 16 Big Brother contestants? Someone's got it wrong - either the experts or the crowd. And I'm tipping the experts...' Because we all... Read More »
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Drudge ripoff

August 1, 2004 – 4:19 AM
"So basically, rather than just give a leftie cartoonist a small photo credit, he steals the picture and goes to the trouble of changing a red traffic light to green, flopping the image and altering traffic signs, all presumably in... Read More »
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