Monday, February 10, 2003

Dave Barry: Sure it costs well over a $100,000 to go to Harvard. But look at the results. 11:31:41 PM

My sources tell me the Guardian is developing it's own publishing system with the help of some software developers who formerly worked at Quark. Seems like a very shrewd move if they can pull it off. When you think of all the Quark users who are getting tired of waiting for an OS X version, and are having to stick with OS 9, there's got to be a big market for such a product. Just wonder why Apple doesn't develop publishing software themselves? Guess they lost the plot when they lost Chris Gulker. 11:21:36 PM

BBC Online is looking for a few good pictures. 11:11:22 PM

My bad weekend (computingwise) was nothing compared with Doc Searls'. Ouch! 5:26:51 PM

I've been having all kinds of problems with Mac OS X (permissions issues, mostly) after somehow managing to move a very important folder somewhere it didn't belong. Spent all day and most of last night trying to pick up the pieces. Mostly OK again but still a few annoying little indications that all is not entirely as it should be (eg, each time I launch iTunes it asks me to accept the license terms). The lesson here is Unix is a very powerful operating system, but also an incredibly easy one to screw up big time! 2:46:10 PM