A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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The Book Is Out!
Finally, today, I see that Amazon has iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6 Visual QuickStart Guide in stock and shipping. Hooray! I’m still waiting to see a copy myself, in all of its full color goodness. And it’s still available for 37% off: c’mon, a full-color, information-packed guide for $16? That’s a great deal.
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QuickTime 7.1.2 Fixes iDVD Bug
I’ve not run into the problem, but apparently QuickTime 7.1.2, released today as a 49.1 MB download (or via Software Update), “addresses an issue previewing iDVD projects.”
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Nuke the Messenger
I’ve long believed (in any administration), that when you start blaming the media, it’s a clear sign that your problems are your own, and the media is just a convenient way to distract attention from yourself. Bush and the Republicans have taken that to the extreme this week by claiming that the New York Time’s ...
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Slate Redesign
I hit Slate just now and see that they’ve done a redesign; a horrendously bad redesign. I thought at first that the CSS stylesheet hadn’t yet loaded, but that’s the new look.
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Tip: Resize Media Pane
(One aspect of book production is that there’s a finite amount of space to work with. As a result, some tips didn’t make it into the print edition of the latest edition. Here’s one; more are on the way.) Both iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 leave little room in their respective Media panes to ...
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Delusional, Paranoid Dick Cheney
In an interview with CNN, Dick Cheney said: Neither an immediate nor phased withdrawal would confer any protection on the United States, Cheney said. “If we pull out, they’ll follow us,” he said of terrorists. Does he really believe that maintaining a failing presence in Iraq is keeping terrorists away from the U.S.? That there’s ...
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“Killed in a brutal way”
Two soldiers who had gone missing were found today, and it appears that they were “killed in a brutal way and tortured,” according to an Iraqi military official. This is terrible, but is it a surprise? Expect Bush and others to decry the treatment of these soldiers, and not mention the government-sanctioned torture that’s been ...
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Best Scathing British Article
Tonight I worship at the writerly feet of the Guardian UK’s Marina Hyde, who writes about US football (soccer) fans at the World Cup in “Over-excited, overweight, and over here“. Here’s just the beginning: Is there a more appealing chant in world football – or indeed world warfare – than “USA! USA! USA!”? The very ...
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Fremont Solstice Parade 2006
After running some errands this morning, Kim and I grabbed some breakfast at The Dish, an always-busy Fremont eatery. Today was the first day of the Fremont Fair, so there were a lot of people about. But it wasn’t until we saw our first naked cyclist that we realized the Solstice Parade was today, not ...
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How much do you spend on coffee?
I’m not a real strict numbers guy, but I do know that buying an espresso every day adds up (which is one reason why we got a super-automatic machine in the office). Well, here’s a calculator to help you figure the costs: Break the Starbucks habit and Save big!: A new calculator suggested by Erika ...
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 