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I trashed two backups of my User folder without checking if the Panther Upgrade actually kept all my files and settings. There were indicators that it hadn't; I should have thought of checking. I was hurrying and had had two...

by †Bjork Shhhh ,Shhhh It's , oh, so quiet It's , oh, so still You're all alone And so peaceful until ... You fall in love Zing boom The sky up above Zing boom Is caving in Wow bam You've...

In Joi's posting today, he quips:I remember thinking in the dream, "oh, I should blog this... " Judging from the comments, some folks find this strange and funny. I don't find it either. I think it's perfectly natural. Whenever you...

... it's been my birthday for about six hours. :) And I'm sitting here working......

I was going to write something about this new Amazon feature which searches the contents of books now and not just ttitles, authors, etc... But Wired beat me to it. In fact, apparently they beat themselves to it, which is...

Jon Udell's Radio - Apple's Knowledge Navigator revisited During my session at BloggerCon I referred to Apple's famous Knowledge Navigator concept video. I first saw that video in 1988. /.../ Presence, attention management, and multimodal communication are woven into the...

Jason Salavon - Selected projects Same artist as previous post. I love it! "Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades" Homes for Sale MTV's 10 Greatest Music Videos of All Time Brilliant....

Jason Salavon - The Late Night Triad From February to August of 2003, I obsessively recorded the major US late night talk shows. This amounts to hundreds of hours of the David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Conan O'Brien programs. From...

I wrote two things today about Blog Comment Spam. One was sent to Dave Farber's "Interesting People" mailing list (which he published! Yay!): Hello Mr. Farber, /.../, the issue of Weblog Comment Spam is one I have been following, and...

In Lao Tsu Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", he speaks of force, momentum, inertia and control. While the book's context is warfare, it can, and has been read and applied to many different things, including business strategy. (Thinking about...

Ka-Pow! The cup of Lavazzo Qualita Oro espresso I just brewed, stove-top stylee, is SO strong... "How strong is it Bopuc?!" Well let me tell you... It's so strong it picked me up by my ankles and, dangling me upside...

Japander.com UPDATE! Sean Connery Suntory Whiskey ad!!! An archive of japanese TV commercials starring American stars. Funny, and absurd, on many levels. :) For example, Brad Pitt riding a surf board down a set of stairs, falls off... says "ooww..."...

Fall is for opera and classical music on CBC, stone-oven baked pizza and red wine on Laurier, the turning of leaves on Mont Royal, cashmere sweaters and closet-scented scarves. The warmth and glow to stave off the still unaccustomed cold....

Wilansky 2003: The Imperial Presidency Ouch. First of all, speaking for myself, I ain't no "commie". ;) That said, I am reading a very interesting book by one Sir Herbert Read, titled "To Hell with Culture". Amongst other things, he...

Adjusting to newfound freedom is going well. Slowly disciplining myself to stay on track. Slowly changing my work environment to stay on track. Tacking care of loose ends to assure financial stability for the next few months. Dentist appointment. Garage...

- "So, once I have this US money in my US account, I can simply transfer it to my regular checking account and it will be converted into CND funds?" - "Yes" - "And of course I can do this...

Read Regular, a typeface designed to ease reading for dyslexics. Persoanlly, I think most of us have some form of dyslexia or another, albeit most probably a cultural form, stemming from "too much too fast". In any event, the explanation...

Is my life jet-setting between Tokyo, New York and Montreal? Is my life hacking GUI code? Is my life sipping lattés with hipsters? Having dinners with visionaries? Is my life driving too fast? Is my life drinking too much? Is...

Photos from my recent trip to Cambridge are up. :)...

Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology : Scorpio Horoscope Scorpio Horoscope for week of October 9, 2003 You are potentially a genius. Maybe not in the same way that Einstein and Beethoven were, but still: You possess some capacity or set...

Good friend Anders points out this Guardian Online article, "Publish and be praised". "Good morning houseplants. Yeees, it's time to get up now." No joke, the article reads like it's 6 years old. This technological revolution, perhaps as significant as...

- "Dhammapadda - The Sayings of the Buddha" Live in joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Live in joy, Without...

Being at Harvard Law School on a Sunday is odd. I walked around a little tiny bit of this campus which is in many ways one of the epicenters of western life. The laws and ways of much of...

The drive to Boston, where I am attending BloggerCon, was 4 1/2 hours of steady rain. Surprisingly not as exhausting as I'd feared. I arrived to find, to my great surprise, a hotel reservation for me at the Sheraton...

Yesterday afternoon I cought and deleted a strange piece of blogspam. It simply said "Boris rules" and linked to boris[dot]com. First thought was: yay, someone trying to be funny. Ten minutes later, Joi asked me if I had posted "Boris...