[MyAppleMenu] Mar 14, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Mar 14, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Midway Through School Year, Laptops Get High Marks In Survey (Associated Press)
<http://boston.com/dailynews/073/region/Midway_through_school_year_lap%3A.shtml>
By an overwhelming margin, seventh-graders who received laptop computers last fall say the laptops have made schoolwork more fun. Teachers also give the laptops high marks, saying the computers enhanced learning by providing students with access to more extensive, up-to-date information.

Adobe Beats Q1 Estimates, Expects Strong Q2 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0303/13.adobe.php>
Adobe Systems Inc. today posted its first quarter financial results, beating analysts' estimates.

Mozilla Web Browser Updated (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/13/mozilla>
Version 1.3 brings junk-mail filtering, image auto-sizing, an API for rich text editing in Web pages, newsgroup filters, dynamic profile switching, nearly 2000 bug fixes, and more.

Apple Takes No. 5 In January MP3 Player Sales (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/18776>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Aple XServe RAID (Charles F. McConathy, Creative Planet Communities)
<http://www.uemedia.com/CPC/article_5943.shtml>

Organizing With NoteTaker (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000856.shtml>
NoteTaker from Aquaminds, a small Silicon Valley software startup reminds me of the days when the joy of innovation was so strong here.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Oracle Deal: Good Omen For Linux Group? (Sandeep Junnarkar and Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012-992427.html>
Oracle on Thursday lent UnitedLinux a hand in its turf battle with Linux leader Red Hat.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Bubble Of American Supremacy (George Soros, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,176502,00.html>
I see parallels between the Bush administration's pursuit of American supremacy and a boom-bust process or bubble in the stock market.

The Rage, The Pride And The Doubt (Oriana Fallaci, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003191>
To avoid the dilemma of whether this war should take place or not, to overcome the reservations and the reluctance and the doubts that still lacerate me, I often say to myself: "How good if the Iraqis would get free of Saddam Hussein by themselves. How good if they would execute him and hang up his body by the feet as in 1945 we Italians did with Mussolini." But it does not help. Or it helps in one way only.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Opinion For Sale (Steven Moss, Legal Affairs)
<http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2003/review_marapr03_moss.html>
Confessions of an expert witness.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Prime Minister By Rotation? Singapore Is Not Switzerland (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,176839,00.html?>
Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he was at a loss for words and some in the House looked puzzled at the range of issues raised by Nominated MP Chandra Mohan K. Nair yesterday -- including if Singapore needed a Prime Minister.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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More Young Lawyers Quit Legal Practice (Karen Wong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,176859,00.html?>
Between 1999 and 2001, 624 lawyers left their practice, citing long hours and too much stress for what they were paid.

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