[MyAppleMenu] Sunday, Aug 17, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Aug 17, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Program Gives Parents Access To Records (eTruth)
<http://www.elkharttruth.com/news/284238282299312.bsp>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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New Wave Of Newsreader Software Makes Sense Of The Web (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6553262.htm>
I won't get into the technical details of RSS. The important thing to understand is that it provides a valuable structure for individual pieces and collections of information, a structure that lets people combine and view them in more useful ways.

Brain Salad Surgery -- New Drives For Aging TiBooks (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3671>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft, Security And The Usual Misdirection (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001283.shtml#001283>
You want anyone to believe security is at the top of the to-do list? Stop all new Windows and Office development for six months or a year, or however long it takes, and fix the products you're already selling -- and kill all those outrageous bugs that aren't safety-related after you've done away with the security woes.

More Wintel news at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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It's A Flawed World After All (Suneel Ratan, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60063,00.html>
Between computer-crashing worms and blackouts, a week like the one just past can make a person acutely aware of his dependence on technology.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Women 'Driven To Road Rage By Their Fathers' (David Adam, Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1019374,00.html>
Women drivers who lean on the horn and yell obscenities at fellow motorists have their fathers to blame, an analysis of driving habits suggests. Finnish scientists have found that daughters are more likely than sons to inherit their fathers' road-rage behaviour.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Golden Oldies (Alice Holstein, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/2003/0810/inperson>
A car radio is like a time machine, taking you back to those lazy days of carefree youth.

Everyone's A Film Geek Now (Elvis Mitchell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/movies/17ELVI.html>
For the movie industry, the DVD has become so important that the tail now appears to be wagging the dog.

Slow. Quiet. Courtly. You Say It's In New York? (Felicity Barringer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/nyregion/17NATI.html?8hpib>
The United Nations borrows much from its 191 member states and very little from New York. Outside, there is rudeness. Inside, there is calm, translated into six languages.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Be Prepared For CPF Rate To Go Down To As Low As 30%: PM Goh (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/46974/1/.html>
In his National Day Rally speech on Sunday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said he felt the commitment to restore the CPF back to its original 40 percent was no longer realistic or wise.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore's PM To Step Down When Economy Recovers (Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3290221>
Goh named as his successor the current deputy prime  minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is also finance minister,  chairman of the central bank and a son of Lee Kuan Yew.

PM Goh Says CPF Minimum Sum Needs To Be Increased (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/46976/1/.html>
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has spoken of the need to increase the Minimum Sum as part of changes in the Central Provident Fund reform.

Government To Tighten Rules For CPF Withdrawal At 55 (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/46977/1/.html>
Mr Goh proposed that CPF members reaching the age of 55 should keep at least the Minimum Sum and the Medisave Minimum Sum in their CPF accounts, before they withdraw any CPF balances.

No Publisher? Do It Yourself (Tracy Quek, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,205183,00.html?>
A growing number of writers spurned by publishing companies here are taking the plunge and printing the works themselves.

Fourth Varsity May Be From Overseas (Wong Sher Maine, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,205123,00.html?>
EDB is wooing established foreign institution to set up a campus here; new university will be funded privately.

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