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Instant Messaging…

I finally installed OSX this weekend on my PowerBook (thanks Sleemer) and with it I installed an application called “Fire” which acts as a front-end client to all of the Instant Messaging networks at once. For me, that makes it a killer app. I put a screen...

Re: Questions from Hanson (Carnage & Culture)

Re: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson031502.shtml It is rare to see such a disturbing piece of isolationist fluff these days, mostly because I don’t usually take the time to read deeply conservative, revisionist rags like the “National...

Canada Wants To Tax Digital Media [MP3] Players

This frosts my hide. It’s wrong for so many reasons. Not only is the Canadian government treading into uncharted waters with a tax on a medium that they are ill-equipped to understand, but they’re merely serving to further entrench a music industry that...

Stamp Out HTTP

Despite the signatories to Don Box’s paycheck he is correct in assessing that HTTP has reached the end of its usefulness as a protocol for delivering applications. Even Tim Berners-Lee thinks so. Of course, HTTP will always be with us for the simple accessing...

The Witch Hunt Is On…

Last Message today I promise.. -Ian. ——- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid3&u=/020302/79/179ga.html SEND ASHCROFT A PENNY FOR HIS THOUGHTS Fri Mar 1,10:01 PM ET By Richard Reeves NEW YORK — “There is fear in the country...

Broadband Beats Dialup (first time)

OKOKOK, so it’s a survey that touts the fact that broadband users spend more time online than dialup users, but I had you fooled for a minute. Broadband’s still only @ 21%. Blah. We suck. -Ian. ———–...

Harry Connick Thinks Different

I saw this the last time Harry Connick, Jr. toured and thought it was scary: he uses flat screens in his orchestra rather than sheet music. During the concert that I went to (in 1999, in fact) he explained that he had re-arranged a bunch of new songs while riding in...