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Below are the entries for 08/2002. If an entry has a light red background, that means it's had at least 10 comments added to it.
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MacCentral reports on the HUGE turnouts at the Apple retail stores for the launch of Mac OS X 10.2. In some places, they had lines of several thousand people waiting to get in to buy Jaguar! The launch event lasted only 100 minutes, from 10:20pm - midnight, but that…
I just had to go shoo away a skunk who was terrorizing our cats. He was provoking them by jumping at them and then turning his butt towards them. They knew to back away and give him a safe distance. The skunk was so aggressive that it kept my mother…
Even the NY Times is singing the praises of Mac OS X 10.2. I learned about a few features I didn’t know about, like the cross-dissolving desktop backgrounds and displaying relevant information on an object below it’s name. I have yet to find one bad thing about Jaguar that…
The US Army is investing in a type of force field that uses electrical currents to stop the damage from an RPG. In this picture, you can see the force field repelling most of an RPG explosion. It’s…
If you go soon enough, you’ll see that the Hizbollah Web site has been hacked. I don’t agree with what has been said on the hacked site. It doesn’t really accomplish anything… other than pissing off the Arabs. And we all know how easy that is. I’m sure they’re…
There’s more ice in Antarctica than there used to be 20 years ago according to a report by Claire Parkinson of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. This space.com article on the report says the sea ice season is getting longer in more areas than it’s getting shorter. The study…
The assistant business editor at the NY Times has committed suicide, it seems. My prayers go out to his family and loved ones. At one point in my life, I could never figure out why someone would want to commit suicide. Then one day, several years ago,…
As far as I can tell, this Salon article about an Apple switcher who wants to go back is a joke. If it isn’t, then the writer doesn’t know what the heck she’s talking about. OS X doesn’t give you weird -7531 errors. In fact, I’ve…
Solly Ezekiel over at GedänkenPundit has an interesting article about how the Palestinians, among others, change the past to manipulate the present.
You are 28% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends…
