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Hearty congratulations on the new position as sys admin for New Media Management!

Having read about his trials and tribulations over the past months, the news serves as an encouragement to us all in these “interesting times” in good ol’ Germany.

Thus the company, Zengobi, describes their new Mac-only product called Curio.

‘ really like their logo!

Well, the screenshots look terrific, so I’ve already downloaded the trial version to test… will report back on that.

(kudos to the Schockwellenreiter)

Here’s Dave Winer’s open-ended thoughts on RSS with Multiple-enclosures per item…

‘ have to think about this one.

(via the Schockwellenreiter)

Boing Boing: It’s the torrent, stupid quotes Marc Pesce’s call to the powers that be:

Hey, Hollywood! …You took a perfectly serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you’ll never, ever be able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious: you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could have found a way to manage the disruptive change that’s already well underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the recording industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.

True. Greed and arrogance are not exactly conducive to wisdom…

Yahoo! News confirms that even a personal visit from the likes of the mighty Steve Balmer could not change the European Commission’s stance.

IMHO $613 million for abusing their dominant market position in operating systems is letting them off lightly.

Must read Ron Avitzur’s amazing account of the development of Graphing Calculator.

For folks who did not have the privilege and pleasure of running this extraordinary app under System 7 on one the first Power Macs back in ‘94, it will be difficult to fully appreciate the significance of it all. Perhaps the exchange in the Slashdot feature could help a bit, at least.

For those who have little or no experience with the Macintosh whatsoever, I can only recommend that you, if at all possible, get one. Even a used one. Any one. It’s the only way.

And, no - I do not work for Apple. Neither am I affiliated to any of the above services…

Although OS X has it’s own PDF viewer called Preview, there have been occasions when I’ve found the greater feature set of Acrobat Reader quite handy. The thing is, I’ve never upgraded beyond version 5.0.5 which was bundled with the system.

So, last week I read a report on a security fix for version 6.0.x - so I figured that perhaps I’d better upgrade, seeing that even version 5.0.5 had some longstanding vulnerabilites.

Downloaded version 6.0.2 , which would still require a patch to bring in the security fix - only the installer crashed repeatedly - i.e. despite all my permissions fixin’, deleting the old prefs and ritual sacrifices to Zeus.

Now, to put this in perspective: over the past two years I must have installed literally hundreds of applications and utilities on this iMac G4 running OS X - I just enjoy tryin’ a lot of stuff out - and very, very rarely has any of those applications ever crashed in this manner - and when one of them did - it was more than likely beta or a very early release of some shareware… Acrobat is the first and only crock of an application that dies on installation - so I dumped it and forgot about it.

But then today I see version 7.0 is out and being the optimist, I assume they must have fixed it all by now.

No way - this time the installation succeeds, but the Reader just barfs on launch… while everything else runs perfecto…

After reading a number of disgruntled voices about Adobe in the blogosphere, I’ve had it. Sorry guys, no 3rd chance.

Adios Adobe!

are up… and they make Yahoo’s imitations look pretty lame by comparison.

Judith Meskill of The Social Software Weblog reports on the latest rage to hit the blogosphere: Your own dotMP subdomain - such as Joi Ito’s: www.ito.mp

At $49.95 a pop per annum, I guess it’s a reasonable offer - if only I had $49.95 to blow. Seriously.

Oh well, maybe next year… though, by then joeuser.mp will surely be taken!

A Slashdot discussion on Yahoo’s policy of not granting access to the account of a deceased family member.

Not much consensus, it would seem. You’re either for or against it.

Another older, more general exchange on the fate of personal data after death is useful in figuring out one’s own perspective on such a tough issue.