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March 31, 2004

Oh Yes, Please, Mug Me

The Times, March 30, 2004:

Muggers have an eye for the earpiece of choice

The distinctive “earbud” white headphones are a giveaway to criminals that a highly desirable iPod, costing up to £400, is concealed about the street-walking music lover.

Ölbaum, March 31, 2004:

Well, I think I’d notice if someone stole my iPod while I’m listening to it. And me noticing when someone is stealing my iPod is not very good for their health.

Or, if you’re concerned about the muggers’ health, there’s always the iCamouflage.

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March 29, 2004

Random thought

This entry deleted due to self-censorship. I was reminded yesterday by an episode of JAG that what I wrote as a joke was not funny at all. I apologise to the people I may have offended.

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Atomic

This is the clock in our entrance hall. It is radio synchronised on an atomic clock of the observatory.

Atomic clock

I took this picture today around 9:12 CEST (Central European Summer Time, UTC+02:00). We switched to daylight saving time yesterday and apparently, some switched in the right direction and some didn’t.

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March 24, 2004

Then I must go for my axe

jr blames Microsoft and he’s so fucking right!

I installed Virtual PC with Windows 2000 on a Mac yesterday and ran our network-based updater, that’s supposed to update Windows and, I foolishly thought, install Norton AntiVirus (don’t misunderstand me, I am not blaming it for not installing the antivirus, I am just deeply sorry of my misconception on this point).

Today I tried running Windows Update, without success, and then installing Office 2000. When it was almost finished (i.e. a long time after it started), our system administrator told me that a new virus had infected our network (which is protected by a firewall) and that my Virtual PC installation is among the machines infected.

In a way, that’s good news. It shows that Virtual PC does a good job emulating all the features of a PC.

What? You see steam coming out of my ears? No kidding.

Update: Apparently this virus is of a new kind, extremely evolved. It infects a PC under Windows, spreads to the Macs by means of the user (it must be a computer/human hybrid virus) and then makes iTunes play Deep Purple dead loud, without any possibility of lowering the volume, quitting the program or shutting down the Mac. Not that it bothers me, though. I find it rather soothing.

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British geek humour …

… a deadly combination.

I just recalled about this excellent feature highlight on Apple UK’s Panther announcement page:

Panther will include a final X11 window server for Unix-based apps, improved NFS/UFS, FreeBSD 5 innovations as well as support for popular Linux APIs, IPv6 and other important acronyms.

Thanks to all in the <head> for keeping a trace of it.

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March 23, 2004

Conspiracy Theory

Some of my colleagues are conspiring against me, I am sure. Every day at noon they go and eat together, then move to the cafeteria for a coffee. I sometimes go with them but strangely, every time I do, all of them decide to skip the coffee break and directly return to work.

All of them, except my office neighbour, who’s probably considered a rebel by the others and to whom I wish a prompt healing, by the way.

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Morning Coffee

On the Apple Knowledge Base:

Sometimes your iDisk may seem like it hasn’t had its morning coffee. There are a lot of things happening behind the scenes. Read on to learn about some of the things you can do to help your iDisk perk up.

:)

I’m sure the wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife will help too.

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March 16, 2004

Access keys

While looking at our (jr and I) in-progress CSS Zen Garden design, I noticed that Safari 1.2.1 now supports access keys using the control key. I’m pretty sure the first versions didn’t.

Try it here: Control-t goes to the top of the article and Control-g to the bottom. Neat.

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