Thursday 31 January 2002

Ken Bereskin, an exec at Apple, is using his weblog to keep us informed on developments at his company. This is a very good use of the medium.  [Scripting News] I look forward to reading Ken's postings on a regular basis. 5:22:43 PM

Ersatz Designs Honor Apple. In the old days, Apple's future product plans were known to everyone. But under Steve Jobs, the company's become obsessively secretive. The information vacuum has fostered a strange manifestation of wishful thinking: fans who design their own Macs. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] It's a long, four-part article, but makes interesting reading. 5:12:01 PM

Mac Net Journal: The State of OS X Web Browsers.  [Scripting News] I'd give OmniWeb more credit than this writer does. Admittedly it falls short on some sites, but it looks so damn gorgeous that I'd forgive it many shortfallings. 5:00:19 PM

OK, so this is a test. Let's see now if my 'apple' category works as I want it to. Right , , , it works OK, but apparently won't let me post to this Category while retaining the date-stamp of the original item (by which I mean that I editing a previous post on my Home page and directed it to this Category; it appeared, but within today's listing! Ah well, at least I have a second category functioning now. Mind you, it took some fiddling. I had to mess around in the WWW folder, dumping old Category info and setting things up again from scratch -- and even then I didn't get HTML format showing up until I duplicated the index.txt file from the top level and manually added my category name. I think this all happened because I'd played about with re-naming the default categories and had got things out of synch. 4:02:35 PM

OS Opinion: Apple Doesn't Need Zealots.  [Scripting News] I especially liked this from the article: A couple of years ago, the only Mac people in my workplace were "Mac people." They were identified by their sad eyes and the lack of spring in their step. These days -- and I'm talking about a Fortune 500 company -- the "Mac people" are managers and highflyers telling their colleagues about their digital movies and DVD burning. These people are the decision makers. They aren't zealots -- they just recognize good technology. 7:18:11 AM

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