[MyAppleMenu] Dec 25, 2001

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=== top =============

Apple Loyalists Cheering Microsoft (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/358/business/Apple_loyalists_cheering_Microsoft+.shtml>
Well-received Mac Office suite helps take bite out of rivalry.

=== news =============

Compal Rumored To Receive iBook Orders (Willie Teng, DigiTimes)
<http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?IR=N&ClassID=100&datePublish=2001/12/21&pages=PR&seq=201>

=== opinions =============

Rage At Being Left Behind (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/01/1224.html>

=== reviews =============

2001 - A Vintage Year For Apple Portables (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/01/12/24/index.html>
Apple's portables are now solidly capable of supplanting desktop computers for most users.

=== internet top news =============

Trying To Keep Young Internet Users From A Life Of Priacy (John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/technology/25HACK.html>
As children have access to computers earlier and earlier in their educational careers, experts in piracy, hacking and other forms of Internet mischief say that any effort to tackle the illicit trade in digital goods should be looking at a younger crowd.

=== internet news =============

Dot-Com Casualty's New Start (David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/24/BU220544.DTL&type=tech>
Online retailers could benefit from poor service at stores.

New Year's Resolutions Go Wireless (Ben Charny, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101024,00.html>
Now there's a high-tech way to try to keep those well-intentioned New Year's resolutions from becoming a guilty memory by Valentine's Day.

A Question Of Web Entropy (John C Dvorak, PC Magazine)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2834768,00.html>
If Web entropy continues on its current path, the entire system will collapse on itself and be useless within a decade.

=== wintel news =============

Buffer Overflows Seep Into Windows XP (Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press)
<http://chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0112240052dec24.story?coll=chi%2Dbusiness%2Dhed>
Some critics questioned how the latest bug might have slipped through.

Apple Loyalists Cheering Microsoft (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/358/business/Apple_loyalists_cheering_Microsoft+.shtml>
Well-received Mac Office suite helps take bite out of rivalry.

=== reader : world =============

Health Care Is New Darling Of Pork Barrel Spending (Robert Pear, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/politics/25SPEN.html>
Pork barrel spending used to mean roads and bridges and dams. Now it also means hospitals, medical schools and local health care projects singled out by Congress to receive tens of millions of federal dollars.

=== reader : tech =============

Lego Tinkered With Success, And Is Now Paying A Price (John Tagliabue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/business/25LEGO.html>
Lego lost its way as it sought to incorporate electronics and licensed toys into its product mix.

Discovering What It Takes To Live To 100 (Mary Duenwald, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/health/aging/25CENT.html>
In nine years, Dr. Perls and his research staff have collected health data on some 1,500 centenarians. And the work has led him to a series of discoveries about the very old.

=== reader : life =============

Semen And Flickering Lights - Yes, It's Art (Russell Smith, Globe And Mail)
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20011222&dateOffset=&hub=thearts&title=Arts&cache_key=thearts&current_row=3&start_row=3&num_rows=1>
It's not really Christmas until I have been able to have a good old what-is-art rant, so please humour me and pour yourself an eggnog while I begin.

In The Children's ER, Busy Even If It's Quiet (Bob Levey, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22619-2001Dec24.html>
It's an annual tradition -- a Saturday night spent in the Children's Hospital emergency room near Christmas.

Asia's Writers Turning To English To Gain Readers (Doreen Weisenhaus, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/books/25ARTS.html>
English-language writing about Hong Kong and much of Asia has long been the province of Western expatriates or writers passing through, but increasingly this work is being done by Asian authors like Xu Xi.

=== reader : expressions =============

Puppy (Richard Ford, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/ON-LINE_ONLY/ARCHIVES/?011224on_onlineonly02>
Early this past spring someone left a puppy inside the back gate of our house, and then never came back to get it.

=== reader : eof =============

They Come, They Buy, They Leave (Bill Picture, San Francisco Examiner)
<http://www.examiner.com/ex_files/default.jsp?story=X1224SHOPPINGw>
So do women really enjoy shopping more than men?

=== singapore top news =============

Chee Takes Back Apologies And Sues SM Lee (Alethea Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,92849,00.html?>
In his court papers, Chee said his remarks were 'true in substance and in fact' and 'fair' on a matter of public interest.

=== singapore news =============

Will Singapore GDP Grow 1.5% In 2002? (Anna Teo, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,31483,00.html?>
Economists tweak up their estimates, but they may again get it wrong.

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