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Last chance to stop the war in Iraq?
Simple fix to increase TiBook airport range. Too good to be true?
Here are some scans of the sidekick (t-mobile branded danger hiptop) brochure.
Just back from 24 hours on Fire Island. I'm liking that place more and more. Lots to catch up on now.
Update to 10.2.1 went without incident. Can't say I notice any astounding improvements. Update to iTunes 3.01 was not so smooth. Afterwards I couldn't connect to the internet (from the terminal, through Mozilla, through mail, etc...) Rebooting from the installer CD and running the disk utility to fix permissions solved the problem (again, like after the iCal incident.) Like a lot of other people I'll add my complaint about the required restart after installing iTunes. How could this be necessary?
Janet took me to see Ricky Jay at Second Stage Theatre in Times Square. He's a "sleight of hand artist" (don't call him a magician.) The show was good. I think if you could see him do just card tricks in a smaller setting he would be even more impressive. What he did of that was great, but I thought the larger, more prop bound tricks didn't work out as well. Still a very fun evening. You sure wouldn't want to gamble with this man.
In a minor coincidence MB and I had just rented Heist on DVD (w/ Gene Hackman.) So so movie, but it did feature Ricky Jay in a large supporting role. I didn't realize until he walked on stage, at which point he looked very familiar. Both Heist and the show I saw were produced by David Mamet who is evidentally a big fan of his.
Afterwards we went to Blue Fin, the strange tourist trap / high end restaurant right in Times Square. Really nice design. We stuck to the monster raw shellfish tower so I can't really comment on the food (the shellfish was good though.) Midtown is like a whole different world (d'uh.)
Went to a funeral service yesterday for my friend Roman. He died a few days ago.
Without going into it too much, I wanted to mention this sad event. He was a good friend, for many years, and I will miss him greatly.
Sony Ericsson has delayed release of the P800 mobile phone. Originially slated to be available by the end of this month, the phone should now be in stores "before Christmas."
The Danger Hiptop (to be sold first as the T-Mobile Sidekick) should hit the streets October 1.
Been playing with NetNewsWire lite, the very popular free RSS news reader. Pretty cool. I tried once before (with a different reader) to get into the whole RSS feed thing, but I found myself more comfortable just surfing my favorite sites in a browser. I like to see a site displayed with the layout meant for that site. Still, I can see the benefit of RSS. If you had tons of sites you had to keep up with this would probably be very handy. If I get into it more I'll make RSS feeds for our pages here. Wouldn't be very hard.