Yep. It sure was warm yesterday. People in shorts. People in T-shirts standing around outside. A high of 52F (around 10C for you metric types) in January in Minnesota. But the weather guys are saying the jet stream's going to wobble back to a more normal pattern around noon today. Today's high might brush 50 by noon (46F at 11AM, according to NOAA), but then it's back into the deep-freeze. Low temps below 0F by the weekend, and highs in the single digits. But still no snow. Bleagh.
- Wow. Layne made the best 23 blogs of 2002 list.
JenniCam for the lit set.
Congrats, Layne. - Other folks were all a-twitter yesterday about other things Steve Jobs had said during his keynote, but the one thing that cought my attention was the PowerBook G4 12. Fast. Small. Lightweight. I almost ordered one, but I decided to wait a month or so. I don't need it today, and I'll let other people figure out what's wrong with 'em first.
- Mark Pilgrim has a Safari review that covers Apple's new browser. It's interesting to see the problems in the rendering, but more interesting for me was that I fired it up, started to do a little surfing, and less than 10 minutes into it, while trying to put this commentary together using the Add a Pick bookmarklet and when I tried to scroll Mark's review, I was suddenly into a Spinning Pizza of Death, so I finished writing up the comment in Mozilla and BBEdit. Even worse, I can't seem to force-quit Safari in order to restart my computer cleanly. No way to kill it from the GUI, so I guess I'll be launching terminal to whack the stuck Safari. But Dave's Picks seems to render just fine in Safari, which is what I was really wanting to know.
- I think that I shall never see -- my Nikes in the old U tree? I went for a walk Monday afternoon, and walked past the tree. Thought about taking a picture, but the light wasn't cooperating. [strib]
- Some freaks out there pushed the envelope and tried to mail various things through the US Mail. The conclusion?
The USPS appears to have some collective sense of humor, and might in fact here be displaying the rudiments of organic bureaucratic intelligence.
Go read the whole thing, and if you're like me, you'll have a newfound faith in agencies of the federal gummint. - Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner. No way! Microsoft screwing a "partner"!?! Erm.
The claim alleges - are you ready to start counting? - misappropriation of trade secrets, common law misappropriation, conversion, unfair competition, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, two counts of negligent misrepresentation, two counts of breach of contract, fraudulent inducement and tortious interference. Phew.
As near as I can tell the whole thing boils down to a clause in the contract that says that if Sendo went broke, MS would get all the intellectual property. And then MS drove Sendo into bankruptcy by not shipping on time (I know, it's inconceivable, Microsoft shipping something late). [flutterby] - I took the Political Compass test, and surprise, surprise, I ended up being "right libertarian" which isn't that big of surprise. But by their scale, there's not a single politician in the U.K. in my quadrant. The surprising thing for some out there would be that I turn out just barely right (though I'm strongly libertarian).
- Dick Armey's warning:
We the people, had better keep an eye on ... our government. Not out of contempt or lack of appreciation or disrespect, but out of a sense of guardianship.
Why? Because along with Ron Paul and Bob Barr, Armey's actually a pretty darned good defender of personal liberty, and he's worried about the direction of "The War On Terror". Hell, even the ACLU agrees that he's right in this case, and when the ACLU is agreeing with Dick Armey, you ought to be paying attention.