[MyAppleMenu] Mar 29, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Mar 29, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Interview: Brent Simmons (John Gruber, Daring Fireball)
<http://daringfireball.net/2003/03/interview_brent_simmons.html>
Brent Simmons is the author of NetNewsWire, the runaway smash-hit RSS news aggregator for Mac OS X, and the founder of Ranchero Software, which he runs in partnership with his wife, Sheila.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Just A Thought - Macs: Not Just For The Artsy Anymore (Vern Seward, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/28.1.shtml>
Computers exist to make our lives easier, it really shouldn't be the other way around.

Intel And Apple (Jason Deraleau, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2979>
Intel recently backed up Apple's claim that 2003 is the year of the portable.

A Damaged Hard Drive Can Ruin Your Whole Day - Hooray For Backups! (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/musings/03/0328.html>
Thank goodness for backups, utility software, and partitioned hard drives.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Multiple Choice (Simon Tsang, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/28/1048653849165.html>
If you have more than one PC in your household and use a single broadband connection to the internet, chances are you will find a wireless broadband router a great tool for keeping the family peace.

Software Update Keeps You From Falling Behind (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134664452_ptmacc29.html>
Managing updates can be one of the most frustrating parts of keeping a computer system up to date. Apple includes a piece of system software called Software Update that can check in with the mother ship from time to time and alert you to necessary updates.

A Developer's Perspective On Apple's 12-Inch PowerBook (Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/28/powerbook.html>
Maybe a key part of the PowerBook's design to augment heat dissipation is to use the attached human body as a heat sink.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft's Wi-Fi Ups And Downs (Joe Wilcox and Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039-994518.html>
Microsoft's decision to wait on delivering faster, "g"-class Wi-Fi gear may have reversed huge market share gains the company made in the hot consumer category.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Struggling To Regain Technological Buzz After Bubble's Burst (Barnaby J. Feder, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/technology/29LABS.html>
Like many once high-flying technology businesses, the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could now use a greater buzz factor.

Publishing A Project Weblog (Jon Udell, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/28/13stratdev_1.html?s=tc>
Proper tools can create useful information hub.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Unix Takes A Run At Linux (Charles Cooper, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-994514.html>
If SCO's software engineering insight was so valuable, then management blew a historic opportunity by not recognizing the Linux trend and moving more quickly. Running to the court for damages is an after-the-fact acknowledgment that SCO backed the wrong horse.

Microsoft's Wi-Fi Ups And Downs (Joe Wilcox and Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039-994518.html>
Microsoft's decision to wait on delivering faster, "g"-class Wi-Fi gear may have reversed huge market share gains the company made in the hot consumer category.

Chinese IT Players Gain Ground (Winston Chai, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1011-994508.html>
Chinese companies are giving global giants like IBM and Hewlett-Packard a run for their money in China's burgeoning IT services market, market researcher IDC says.

Sun To Drop Its Customized Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-994602.html>
Sun Microsystems will phase out its customized Sun Linux and move instead to partnerships with Red Hat and other mainstream Linux companies, executives said Friday.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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A Woman's Work? (Margaret Talbot, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/magazine/30WWLN.html>
We cling to the image of women as peacemakers — even if it no longer really fits.

In Defense Of Al-Jazeera (Michael Moran, MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/643471.asp?cp1=1>
Attacking the messenger, and our message at the same time.

Bush Officials Battle News Media (Tom Curry, MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/892201.asp?0cv=CA01&cp1=1>
In the struggle to shape public opinion, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other administration officials seemed determined to overcome what they see as "mood swings"  and second-guessing by reporters and analysts which they fear could sap public support for the war.

Would The Real George Bush Please Stand Down (Tim Dowling, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,923848,00.html>
You may think the air of extreme witlessness impossible to mimic, but is the man on the podium the authentic Dubya, a trained stand-in or an animatronic lookalike?

Practice To Deceive (Joshua Micah Marshall, The Washington Monthly)
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0304.marshall.html>
Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare sceanrio -- it's their plan.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Chinese Secrecy Blamed For Super-Pneumonia Spread (Damian Carrington and Emma Young, New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993562>
The Chinese government's secrecy has been blamed for the still growing outbreak of super-pneumonia around the world that has infected over 1400 people and killed 54.

I, Clone (Michael Shermer, Scientific American)
<http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=00084EAF-2081-1E61-A98A809EC5880105>
The three laws of cloning will protect clones and advance science.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Finding An Office In New York City (Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software)
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html>
Recently, I learned a lot more about commercial real estate than I ever imagined I would need to know.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Salon.com Nabs Funding (Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2110-1030-994619.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
Salon Media Group, publisher of the Web site Salon.com, announced Friday that it received an $800,000 investment round from its existing investors.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore 2003 Growth Likely To Be At Lower End Of Target: DPM (AFP)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,180117,00.html?>
Singapore is likely to achieve the lower end of its two to five per cent economic growth target this year because of the impact of the US-led war against Iraq and a global health scare from a killer respiratory virus, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday.

Public Jibes A Spur To Top Civil Servants (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,179955,00.html?>
Civil service trying to be more responsive to rising expectations, but public has to be patient as changes take time, say officers.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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State Can't Subsidise Personal Investment Losses (Lionel Yeo, Ministry of Finance, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,180067,00.html?>
The basic tax principle is that a deduction against an income is allowed if the expenses were incurred in the production of that income.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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