atmaspheric | endeavors

MacOSXHints.com posted this hint today and at first I did not think much of it… However, since I read how to do it (click on the subject of a message, then Apple+C) I have atually done it a few times. Basically, you can copy and paste a message from mail without scrolling through [...]

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LET THEM EAT CAKE. “Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s chief designer, recently made headlines by suggesting that Chanel customers lose weight if they want to wear his tiny new “shrink-to-fit” creations,” writes Chris Hoyt in Out There. “Although everyone got a lot of laughs out of his advice (particularly his “this is not something fascist we are [...]

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Tech execs and extreme jocks are making the world safe for plasma-screen shaving mirrors and Wi-Fi window shades. Join Jack Boulware for an exclusive tour of the ultimate wired homes. And please wipe your feet.

Peek into the high tech homes of:

Roger Shiffman, the former CEO of Tiger Electronics

Steve Perlman, founder of WebTV and creator of [...]

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After just watching the latest Curb your Enthusiasm, I think it is fair to say that Larry David is a sick bastard.

A quick tally of events:

The Death of his mother is kept from Larry by his father per some Jewish guilt based request of his mother.

Larry then uses the death of his mother to get [...]

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From the NYT…

There is little question the Postal Service can use help. It supposedly is a self-supporting independent agency, but it is owned by the federal government. Although it pays no taxes, it is not subsidized. It deals with four unions „ for city carriers, rural carriers, clerks and mail handlers „ and [...]

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Finally! The Eagles are finally on TV this week after a Bye and 2 consecutive black-outs. I have to admit it was somewhat refreshing to see Fox cut away from the San Francisco / New Orleans with only 23 seconds left in order to switch to the next game broadcast.

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Infoworld has some great new articles looking at Apple fairly in depth. One particular highlight, “Apple on the Move,” is a group interview :

APPLE’S SENIOR VICE President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Avie Tevanian, and Director of Mac OS Product Marketing Ken Bereskin met with InfoWorld Test [...]

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I am now fully aware of how nice it can be to post to radio without the browser. In reading the discussion groups I know I am not alone in having issues with browser communication to Radio.
Archipelago makes it easy to post as well as edit previous posts — once you figure it out. [...]

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Paulo from evectors, posted a way to enable Radio to post either an entire blog or a category to your .Mac account… Very cool.

How to upload your Radio weblog on .Mac servers.

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Hopefully this is not too good to be true… The cast of characters behind this future PIM is all-star and the features and goals of this to-be-named product sound killer. The goal of this PIM product will be to create an open source, all platform product. It’s something we can all truly [...]

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Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 1:36:23 PM

Test post 2 with Archipelago…

I have not had much time this week to work with this app, but it seems cool enough, not too mention lighter than the browser for posting.

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Last week we all read eagerly about the woman who switched to windows and the significant life altering experience it was. False of course, photo taken from stock art, and written by a hired gun. Thanks to the Register, via Scripting News we get another one. This time from an amazingly sharp [...]

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While I can’t afford it, the Meridian 880 Reference Music Server is high on my wish list for home media servers. In fact, it seems to be the media server. I have checked out a few in the past including devices from Lansonic and Imerge. The iMerge always seemed [...]

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Tonight at 12:09am, my friends Mark and Julie brought their first child into the world. Mia Rose was born at 8lbs, 4oz and is a very healthy girl.

I’ve known Mark since the summer before fifth grade and he is my first friend to be having a baby, so this is very special news.

Congratulations to [...]

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As I had previously mentioned Video on Demand has been active on our cable system here in NYC. Today the New York Times and Wired News (below) cover the pending and official launch. The main differentiator between this and other VOD systems launched so far is the TiVo like functionality allowing [...]

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I am just testing a post with Archipelago which could prove itself to be quite solid a solution for posting to this site.

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My wife Ashley and I returned last night from a wonderful trip to Florida to celebrate our second wedding anniversary which is today. Hard to believe it has only been two years, since we have both matured significantly in that time. Without going into more personal details, I’d just like to leave it [...]

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I came in to work this morning to discover that my .Mac mail account was refusing my password… frustrated I took it offline. Why is it that right after I purchased .Mac, the service gets buggy? Seems I am not alone though in my misfortune…

.Mac service outage affects all services [The Macintosh News Network]

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After spending some quality time reprogramming my Pronto Universal remote this weekend to accommodate the new features of HDTV, I thought I might be able to share some wisdom with you. First, the process of enabling more technology in your living room is easy (dollars aside), but making it simple for your family to [...]

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Newsweek: “Larry Lessig admits it: he’s nervous.”

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