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The problem with a wireless mouse is that it can run out of charge. Skeptics maintain that even the possiblity of being locked out of your system while your mouse recharges defeats any gains from cutting the cord. I think I agree, but I still want a cordless mouse. So what if it came with a USB mousepad? The wireless mouse will work anywhere, but when used on the pad it will draw power (and recharge) through contact with that surface. This way you could never run out of power. The worst that could happen would be that you'd have to temporarilly use it on the pad if it lost all it's charge (that's assuming you didn't always use it on the pad anyway.)
On October 9th Larry Lessig will finally get his chance before the Supreme Court, as he argues Eldred v. Ashcroft. In light of the present geo-political situation you might be forgiven for not taking the issue of copyright term extension very seriously. But assuming we don't blow ourselves up, or wind up in a global police state, this issue will be very important. Wired has some good coverage. Business Week has a nice summary as well. The future is being decided (too bad this Supreme Court is doing it.)
Unbelievable optical illusion (via kottke.)
My stomach was giving me some problems this week, so I decided to cut out my copious coffee intake. Three days without java. Surprisingly easy.
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?