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Just in case you were curious, here's a shot of the server room at Napster (you mean that's it?) P.S., I love Scripting News.
Woke up at 5:45 yesterday to get an early start on the summer. Drove up to Bear Mt. with Alex and friend Matty (sp?) for a little hiking and introduction to bird watching from the man himself. Like most other pursuits these days, the technology really makes a difference. Good binoculars are a must for enjoying this very peaceful and meditative endeavor. And looking through them all day is not unlike staring at a screen (although a very high resolution one.) Thought a lot (again) about using natural landscapes to model data. Also I realized (although this may not be true) that xml has some serious problems. It might be the case that the data (the content) is itself the most consise (meta-data) description of itself. Or, in other words, it might be that we will not be able to decide on any but the most trivial schemas to share in common. Oh well. Still more thinking to be done.
This is not a real product. There is a strange tradition in the Mac watching world where external (non-Apple) third parties produce concept designs of rumored products. The apple pda/cellphone is one of the more widely speculated on new products (apple never says anything about stuff in development, but sometimes those engineers have a hard time not talking about what they are doing...) In any case, this concept design is looking pretty good. And it's from the same people who previewed a clamshell notebook enclosure well before the ibooks hit the market, so this might not be a total guess. I'm ready for this phone. (Although I'm guessing 2003 before good net access.)