Entries from April 2006

Electronics giant NEC found that Chinese pirates were not only faking products, but had created a pirate version of the [...]

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I was searching for local dog breeders for a story. See what I got:

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Seriously. It’s a three-minute video, in Chinese, but the language isn’t important. It’s completely visual, and — if you ever [...]

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Retraction (4/25): As Paul Glover points out in the commentary, there’s good reason to think this list isn’t accurate. (I’m [...]

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In court filings in San Jose, Apple said that bloggers are not “legitimate members of the press” and should not [...]

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This is going to be a pat-myself-and-my-paper-on-the-back entry, in case you don’t like those sorts of things. You’ve probably seen [...]

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I was thinking about population — overpopulation, that is. I’ve long believed that the problem isn’t that there are too [...]

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Every now and then my friend Eric posts a list of some of the phrases people are searching on that [...]

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Digg is a cool site, but the folks at Forever Geek have found a big problem with it. The concept [...]

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I’m starting to migrate the site to a slightly new look and a CSS-based structure. (For those of you who [...]

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Our stuff from OfficeMax was supposed to be delivered Friday. No luck. Monday we called and the OfficeMax customer service [...]

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So Karen ordered two filing cabinets and a telephone from OfficeMax to equip her new office. Because the order was [...]

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Oh, what the heck. Jason Snell’s Macworld editorial has been making the rounds, and people have asked if I’m going [...]

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At the end of last summer, we got rid of the 15-year-old window air conditioner that cooled the downstairs of [...]

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Ah, and now we have this gem posted: With the truth being told (without all the flaming), his remark about [...]

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“cunninghamcanada@yahoo.ca” wrote me a little gem that included this: Obviously you’ve never actually used OSX or touched a Mac. Bill [...]

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I gotta share this, in case you missed it in the comments. One Mac user wrote the following and posted [...]

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So get this — the conspiracy theorists at Mac Daily News wrote that I had praised something called “Microsoft Max,” [...]

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This is funny. Cyrus Farivar of MacUser wrote a piece in which he purported to “take down” my argument about [...]

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Just got this lovely note from a Mac user: From: myarea51@mac.com [mailto:myarea51@mac.com] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:39 PM To: [...]

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