a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
It’s never easy going toe to toe with a superbrand. But a war over sneaker cool is heating up. [New York Times: Sports]
Eric Liedtke, director of footwear marketing for Adidas, is a high-energy, high-intensity man. Veins pop from his neck. He often waves his arms around in the air for no clear reason. He curses a lot, and wears athletic shirts that wick the sweat from his skin. At a large whiteboard on the wall of his office, Liedtke messily sketches out his plan of attack.
Seekers of ‘.biz’ Names May Get Money Back (TechNews.com)
Consumers who tried to buy certain “.biz” domain names in 2001 will be eligible for refunds now that Sterling-based Internet address seller NeuLevel Inc. has settled claims that it staged an illegal lottery to dole out the names.
Though I read this a few days ago, I am sure there are those who missed it as well and can appreciate the catch up post.
In an unusual turn, three products out of the 10 to receive the Wired News 2002 Vaporware Award also appeared on last year’s list. Tech-hungry readers wonder: Why can’t these developers get it together? [Wired News]
WOW! I will have to definitely look more into this one…
Wi-Fi by land to the sea: A company has quietly installed $5 million worth of Wi-Fi gear pointing outwards from major coastal areas to serve private boating and the cruise ship industry. This is remarkably clever, as physics tells us that a tower not very high up on the coast can have a direct line of sight to a huge swath of sea within its range. The company, Wheat Wireless Services’s TeleSea division, says that they cover the coast from Baltimore to the Florida Keys, Puget Sound, San Francisco Bay, Long Island Sound, Southern California, and Hawaii. Their source of financing isn’t mentioned. How did they submarine this deployment, no joke intended? [via TechDirt]
Salon.com People | Phish wraps New York Times
Tom Hanks, Phish-head?
I don’t think so.
But everyone from the New York Times to the Associated Press to MTV seems to have fallen for a little gag Phish played on its audience the other night during its big New Year’s Eve concert at Madison Square Garden.
Sometimes you just have to share the good things…Thanks to Davezilla for the pointer!
Playalong is the ultimate companion to iTunes. It displays album cover art and rating information.
Happy and Healthy New Year to all!
So I am currently in sunny Florida for the holidays, but the weather is not exactly the heat we were looking for. It is certainly warmer than NYC, which is great and we can get some sun while outside whether reading or boating so all is well.
I did want to catalogue my adventurous flight down here since it was an experience like no other…
The flight was packed leaving Newark. There were no available seats and many families were spread throughout the plane. My request to move into an exit row was unable to be met as there were simply no additional options, which would have been fine if I have been sitting behind a civil person. When I walked back to my seat during boarding, the man in front of me was already reclined to the max reading his New York Post. Under normal circumstances in coach, my knees touch the seat back, if someone reclines, I must quickly become creative and find a way to angle myself to avoid being hurt. Since having the seat back is not allowed at this time and also makes things that much more troublesome to get situated, I politely requested that the guy adjust the seatback. He did and I thought great, we can all be pseudo-comfortable. Since I know what it is like to be crushed I never move my seat back unless there is no one sitting behind me.
Soon after take-off the plane reached cruising speed and altitude, and the guys seat came slamming back on my knee. My gut reaction was to forcefully readjust the seat (a bit harsh yes, but then it did hurt when it came back on me). He turned to confront me and I (admitadly a bit harsh again) sugested he was crushing me and what did he expect. Soon enough I found out as once again slammed the seat backwards towards me. This time though I was prepared to block, which I did and I was able to keep my leg in place to prevent further harm from coming my way. The man actually lost control at this point.
He actually started to thrash himself into the seat in order to drive it past my block and into my leg, but since I had leverage on my side this was impossible for him. He tried quite a few times like a child might to really thrash about into the seat until he realized this was not going to work out. He then called the flight attendant to complain like a little baby. Friendly service from Continental informed me that it was in fact the passenger’s right to recline regardless of the discomfort or pain caused to other passengers. I did my best to convey an emotionless case but the attendant claimed the guy was in the right.
It was at this time that the man who had been sitting next to me called to me from across the aisle and said I could have his seat as he was going to stay in the new one with one of his kids sitting on his lap. I was saved and relieved to be out of harm’s way.
I realize I also acted irrationally perhaps… but I just (still) can not believe the lack of consideration shown by the other passenger. Fortunately I was rescued by a generous citizen.
Yahoo’s buyout of search technology company Inktomi is meant to fend off the growing competitive threat from Google. But analysts say it may be too little, too late. [CNET News.com]
ZDNet: Story: What’s ahead in 2003? Here’s what I think
Number 5…
2003 will be a pivotal year for Apple. If Steve can pull another iMac from his hat, things will be better for the company. But the real issues are erosion of the education market, due to Windows predation, and increasingly soft sales of Power Macs to business customers. If this tide isn’t stemmed, Apple could end up a consumer-only company by 2005. And if consumers stop buying, well, I don’t want to think about it. There is also the issue of perception: If people come to believe Apple is a loser, it will become a loser. And that could be a slide the company won’t be able to check.
Certainly seems like it was only a matter of time based on the whole premise of the guy’s thinking…
“Mr. Schneider has set up offshore banks for years, but offshore banks have both legal purposes and illegal purposes,” he said. “Mr. Schneider’s position is that he has told people you cannot use them for tax evasion.”
A call Saturday night to Witmeyer was not immediately returned.
I noticed on Friday that our Cable lineup has changed pretty substantially. When we first got our HDTV converter box, we could choose between HBO, Showtime, NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS and PBS. The networks did not broadcast fulltime HD, but the movie stations and PBS delivered 100%. We also have Movies on Demand and an Adult Movies on Demand channel.
With the new lineup, we now have HBO, The Movie Channel, Showtime, Cinemax all On Demand for a monthly fee in addition to a whole host of regular and extended cable channels which appear to gearing up for HDTV.
The way this works, for those of you on older cable systems or non-digital cable, is that we have additional channel numbers for each channel that offers HD. Things are looking better and better…Hopefully soon our new channels will activate and we will have most channels in their glorious new clarity.
Just in from the OSAF mail list…
We’re working towards our goal of making preliminary code available in a public CVS repository, and we’d like to let everyone know what to expect from this very skeletal release, as well as what not to expect. In the spirit of getting the community on board as soon as possible, we want to make source code available as soon as we have something we don’t intend to throw away, but that will likely be a foundation for the real application. This means issuing a release that will lack most key features, have a very limited and primitive user interface, and won’t be usable for real work. We also aren’t yet set up to accept code from the community, though we’ll soon have a way for you to submit comments and bug reports, and a mechanism for submitting code will come in a later release.
Lionel Letizi just wanted to play a friendly game of Scrabble. Instead, the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper apparently won’t be playing anything for a while. Source:Daypop Top News Stories]
In the report, it’s just the latest in a string of bizarre injuries among international goalkeepers:
- Spain’s Santiago Canizares missed this year’s World Cup after dropping a bottle of aftershave on his foot and damaging a tendon.
- Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman hurt himself while he reached for his TV remote control and needed surgery.
- Wigan’s Dave Beasant missed matches after dropping a jar of mayonnaise on his toe.
- Liverpool keeper Michael Stensgaard dislocated his shoulder in 1995, trying to catch an ironing board that had slipped from his grasp.
The only modification I had to make from the auto-discovery was to add my blog ID (in my case, 2) which fixed NNW Pro from crashing on Post. Now all is good with this fantastic app!
Brent Simmons: “That‘s why RSD is nice. It means you can be up-and-running quickly, rather than having to first go nuts. Better to skip the going nuts part.” [Scripting News]
Been having trouble posting from an existing news item, but this is my first new post…
ScriptBuilders News: “To coincide with the beta release of NetNewsWire Pro, I’ve uploaded NetNewsWire Search Scripts 1.0b1 to ScriptBuilders. This set of four scripts allows users to quickly search articles downloaded by NetNewsWire Pro and then view a report, with articles and links, in a browser.” Source: AppleScript Info
UPDATE – The link to download these seems to be out of commission.
Notepad tips: “Another new NetNewsWire Pro page: Notepad tips.” Source: inessential.com
Not something I can do, but certainly worth pointing out…
Developers: “I just added a page to the NetNewsWire site with links for developers.
It points to things like a description of NetNewsWire’s AppleScript support, a description of the RSS clipboard formats used, a list of XML-RPC APIs and methods used, and so on.” Source: inessential.com