[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Jan 30, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Jan 30, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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The Mac Lovers Of Microsoft (Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/158677_msftmac30.html>
People sometimes stare when Microsoft Corp. executive Tim McDonough opens his laptop in meetings. But that's probably to be expected when someone uses a Mac PowerBook in the center of the Windows world.

MyAppleMenu : News
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'Rings' Digital Dailies Circled Globe Via iPod (Sheigh Crabtree, Hollywood Reporter)
<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/columns/tech_reporter_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2077623>
During the making of the "Rings" trilogy, Jackson and his Wellington, New Zealand-based Weta Digital crew upped the ante on Apple's innovative iPod storage technology.

Arlington Schools Debate Switch From Mac to PC (Gail Norheim, Northern Vigirina Journal)
<http://jrnl.com/cfdocs/new/ffx/story.cfm?paper=fx&section=st&snumber=06>
The Arlington Public Schools are looking at making the switch from using mostly Macintoshes to personal computers, but teachers say they have been left out of the decision-making process and want to keep their computers.

Pixar Says 'So Long' To Disney (Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62104,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Pixar Animation Studios ends talks with Disney aimed at striking a new deal. The Finding Nemo co-producer wants ownership over future movies, while Disney execs say the new agreement wouldn't make financial sense.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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OS X Without Tears (Rebecca Freed, PC World)
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114464,00.asp>
No one likes migrating to a new operating system, even if it is OS X.

Paying For Style (Dan Bricklin)
<http://www.bricklin.com/stylepay.htm>
People pay for expressing themselves personally through style.

Freshening The Rotten Apple (Jason Levine)
<http://q.queso.com/archives/001352>
There's precious little that makes me more annoyed than a company that miraculously decides to do right by its customers just after enough of those customers express interest in a class-action lawsuit against it.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Says U.S. Govt May Cancel Eolas Patent (Reuters)
<http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4244611&section=news>
Microsoft said on Thursday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may come to its rescue and cancel a patent that could force the world's biggest software company to rejig its most popular product.

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

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Dean Goes Bust (Josh Benson, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/01/29/dean/index_np.html>
The $40 million war chest is gone -- and so is campaign manager Joe Trippi. What happened?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Heavenly Dreck (August Kleinzahler, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2094629/>
Why is airplane music so universally bad?

Theory In Chaos (David Kirby, Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0127/p11s01-legn.html>
Viewing literature through the lens of some "ism" seemed revolutionary in the 1960s. Today, many are calling it an irrelevant approach.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Make 50% Of Top Exec Pay Variable: Panel (Chuang Peck Ming, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,106705,00.html?>
Management must take the lead. This principle must be uppermost in the minds of the Tripartite Taskforce on Wage Restructuring when it drew up a generic flexi-wage model to get wage reform moving faster in Singapore.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Drenched By Heaviest January Rainfall In 30 Years (Associated Press)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/1/30/latest/15753Singapore&sec=latest>
This tropical city-state recorded its heaviest rainfall for the month of January in 30 years as monsoon rain poured down almost continuously in the past week, authorities said Friday.

Surprise Fall In Singapore's Jobless Rate (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/latest/story/0,4574,106734,00.html?>
Singapore's unemployment rate fell sharply to 4.5 per cent at the end of December as the nation's rebounding economy created a surprisingly large number of jobs, the government said on Friday.

Isn't Legalising Only Heterosexual Oral Sex Ruling By Consensus? (Clarence Singam, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,232529,00.html?>
Members of Parliament should bear in mind that they do not serve just the majority but the entire nation. This includes significant numbers of gay Singaporeans.

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