[MyAppleMenu] Jul 14, 2002

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

Apple Posts Software Update Security Fix (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0207/13.update.php>
With the new Security Update fix, packages presented via the Software Update mechanism are now cryptographically signed.

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

She Built A Business In 'No Time' (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53827,00.html>
Karin Spitzeer is a refined example of how little it takes to build a business in the information economy: Her tools consist only of a laptop and some imagination.

Reader Notes iMac Advertising In Dublin (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15227>

The Digital Hub Gets A New Spoke: Television (Jim Heid, Macintosh Digital Hub)
<http://www.macintoshdigitalhub.com/reviews/eyetv/index.html>
EyeTV brings personal video recording to the Mac.

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

Discussion: Apple Plugs Software Update Hole (Slashdot)
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/13/148226&mode=flat&tid=107>

OS X Day 1: Enter The iBook (Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1683>
I'd been with Microsoft for so long, who are complacent and hoard their customers, that I'd forgotten what it's like to use an operating system built by people who <i>want</i> it to cooperate with the rest of the world. It's good.

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

Hands On With The PowerBook, Cinema DIsplay (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0207/14.powerbook.php>
The PowerBook 800MHz is the first portable I would recommend using as a full time system.

May I Quote You? (J.W. Olsen, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,370028,00.asp>
The Olympus DS-330 digital voice recorder is a useful, convenient device that you'll quickly find yourself slipping into your pocket or purse.

=== wintel top news =============

Enter The Dragon (David Sheff, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/legend.html>
China will soon be the biggest PC market in the world, and everyone wants a piece of it.

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

Microsoft Seen As Earnings Stand-Out (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-software-outlook.html>
Business software makers, with the exception of industry titan Microsoft, are int he summer of their discontent and this week's earnings reports will underscore that view, analysts said.

Absense Of Cluetrain The Culprit? (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1684>
I conclude it was likely the absence of the ClueTrain rather than direct lobbying by Microsoft.

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

Increasingly, It's The Economy That Scares Us (Andrew Kohut, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/opinion/14KOHU.html>
Up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, both politcal parties are sensing the public disquiet over the expanding list of business scandals -- and sensing, too, that this fall's mid-term elections might not be only about how well Washington is dealing with terrorism. They are right.

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

Enter The Dragon (David Sheff, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/legend.html>
China will soon be the biggest PC market in the world, and everyone wants a piece of it.

Now, The Personal Ethical Assistant (Matt Richtel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/technology/14SLAS.html>
Technology may have made our lives more efficient, but the latest developments in corporate America have shown us that we may need an upgrade in the ethics area.

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

New Poetry Web Site Mines Old Idea (David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/13/DD150020.DTL>
It's a story as old as California: They come for the gold, but they stay for the publishing opportunities.

The Walls Are Alive (Daniel Libeskind, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,754320,00.html>
Every building I have admired is, in effect, a musical instrument whose performance gives space a qulty that often seems to be transcendent and immaterial.

A Date To Remember (Liza Mundy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52813-2002Jul10.html>
Americans don't talk about 7/4 or 12/7. Why 9/11?

Switzerland Today (Michael Chabon, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52817-2002Jul10.html>
It was the last place in the world he thought he would find redemption.

Reel Change (A.O. Scott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/magazine/14WWLN.html>
The drive to grab a camera and immerse yourself in the world around you, and to produce not documentary but poetry, has become as fundamental as the urge to tell stories.

In Lisbon, Finding Big Flavors In Small Places (Jacqueline Friedrich, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/travel/14TAB.html>
In Portugal, delicously rustic, straightforward cooking is most often found in small, unpretentious restaurants.

Bidding The Interstate goodbye (Wayne Curtis, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/travel/ROAD.html>
A mellower America emerges on a four-week journey by VW camper.

Fighting The Wedding Blues (Sumiko Tan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,131666,00.html?>
Singlehood's great, but not when you're at a super-romantic wedding in Bali and surrounded by couples who get all lovey-dovey when Endless Love comes on.

The End Of Herstory (Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal)
<http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_3_the_end_of.html>
How do we explain that pause that comes when you ask women if they consider themselves part of the feminist movement?

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

CPF Hike May Start Next Year: NTUC Chief (Ahmad Osman, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,131846,00.html?>
The employers' CPF contribution rate to stay unchanged this year.

First Taste Of Opposition Politics Leaves Singaporeans Frustrated (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020714/1/30hwu.html>
Singapore's first taste of strident opposition politics, de facto though it may have been, has left the electroate with the frsturated impression that despite all the noise nothing happened.

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

Operators May Lose Seats In PTC (Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,131841,00.html?>
Minister Yeo won't give a firm 'yes' but says the tree execs in the council can be resource people rathe rather than members.

New Life For Old Parliament House (Vladimir Guevarra, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,131850,00.html?>
The National Arts Council is planning to turn about 940 sq m of space in the old Parliament House into a food and beverage-cum-retail development.

Singaporeans Don't Expect Free Lunches (Lim Boon Hee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,131899,00.html?>
And if there is no 'free lunch', then who paid the bill for the $388 million mistake by the IDA?

Cabinet Should Not Sideline MPs (Tan Kok Tim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,131854,00.html?>

HK Comparison Unfair (Cheryl Lee Zi Du, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,131885,00.html?>
Do not assume that the situation in other counrties is similar to that in Singapore.

Old iMac To New iMac (MacSingapore)
<http://macsingapore.com/archive/news200207a.html#tradein>
AppleCentre at Orchard is offering a trade-in program for old DV iMacs.

PAP Backbenchers Should Get Out Front (Bertha Henson, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/story/0,1870,131695,00.html?>
The hitherto cosy closed-door sessions between ministers, bureaucrats and backbenchers kill the MPs' credibility and breeds public cynicism towards the political process.

Fares Too High? Hop On A Free Bus (Arlina Arshad and Wong Sher Maine, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,131746,00.html?>
Amid rising public-transport fares, a growing number of shopping malls and hotels are offering free shuttle services.

Jakarta Has To 'Shed Big Country Image' (Derwin Pereira, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,131690,00.html?>
Indonesia has to shed its self-imposed image of acting like a 'big country' in its relations with Singapore, a respected scholar said yesterday.

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