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will leshner's cave wall scratchings

@ Thursday, April 18, 2002

notes from Japan

My wife tells me that everybody on the trains and buses and such in Japan is doing cellphone email these days. It used to be that they would be reading books. Now they are doing email. Everybody. And you can't find a public pay phone to save your life. Everybody's got a phone so I guess they are tearing out the public phones.

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Mac OS X 10.1.4

I guess Apple released Mac OS X 10.1.4 yesterday. I saw one report that they'd released 10.1.4 server. And a bit later I saw mention of 10.1.4 workstation. I wasn't sure what workstation meant. It turns out that workstation means the consumer version. So I'm off to update now :)

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iziwaru na kao

My wife just told me my face has gotten iziwaru looking. That means I'm looking like a meany. It might be the beard. Or it might be that she's been looking at Japanese faces for the last three weeks and she's not used to my non-Japanese face. That was her idea, not mine :)

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reply from dave

I just wrote directly to Dave Winer about the MetaWeblog API bug and he wrote back instantly. Very cool. Kinda restores my faith, so to speak. Now I just hope they fix the bug. I'm worried about all the people who might be using Radio Poster and filling their weblogs with broken perma-links.

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Apple beats the street

Apple had a good quarter and actually beat estimates of earnings by $0.01. They earned $0.11/share and were expected to earn $0.10/share. And they had some problems getting the new iMac into customer's hands. They always have a problem with that. You'd think that would be a good problem, but it actually isn't. Not having products your customer's want is as bad as, if not worse than, not having demand for products. If a customer tries to buy something and you don't have any, then you've still lost a sale. Plus, you've probably pissed off the customer.
But things are looking good for a great quarter. The new iMacs are flying off the shelves. I'm psyched.

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