Slipping
A great article by Mark Pesce about the MPAA’s crackdown on BitTorrent. Susan Mernit’s Blog.
News to warm your XMAS heart
US allows use of evidence gained by torture. 04/12/2004. ABC News Online.
Pakistan v Western Australia 2nd XI
Caren, Evelyn and I spent a relaxing couple of hours at UWA watching Pakistan and WA 2nd XI play. Sitting on the lawn, with Evelyn playing around, and a couple of friends from indoor cricket is a great way to spend the afternoon.
Of course, returning home to get involved in the middle of a domestic violence dispute with our non-english speaking neighbours made for a slightly stressful and non-relaxing late afternoon. We think all is relatively well now that tempers have dropped.
Stockholm Looks Different
When we stayed in Stockholm, we got off the train from the airport at a train station about 400 metres to the right of this picture, on the bridge. We then decided to save money and walk to our hotel, which was in that red boat in the lower right hand corner of the photo.
Not such a bad thing you say. Except for the fact that it was snowing, there was ice all along the footpath and that it was below 0C. The wheels on the suitcase jammed with ice and grit from the road, rendering them completely useless. I was carrying a laptop and a suitbag (with Caren's wedding dress and my suit), and 2 suitcases, while Caren was struggling with all the remaining crap that we decided (for some completely unknown reason) we needed to lug all the way around the world.
So, when I saw this photo in the Flickr Sweden RSS feed on BlogLines it brought back all sorts of weird memories. Happy memories for the trip and wedding and bad memories for the trudging and the carting and the snowing.
I'm part of an elite group
So a study was released today that found that 6% of Macintosh users were Wintel users who had bought their Mac after they bought an iPod. Which of course everyone is taking to mean that the iPod is attracting people to Apples.
Which, while true for some, takes away from the bitchin’ ass coolness of the new iMac, and the funky mofo sexiness of MacOSX Panther
Of course, I’m still using my PC for just about everything I do. Except Skype.