P. and I saw Peter Gabriel last night at the Garage. He did something that I’ve often thought would be a good idea: set the stage in the middle of the stadium instead of at one end.
That simple decision improved the sightlines for most of the audience and the sound quality for all.

Julie Eastman
Hello everyone. Haven’t had much to add to the website lately and I still don’t but I thought it was time for an update.
Mike is still in hospital and will be for some time to come. He is making slow progress but has a long way to go before he [...]

Today Mark Pilgrim posted a long excerpt from The Real Thing, a twenty-year-old Tom Stoppard play. One passage in particular struck me.
I can’t help somebody who thinks, or thinks he thinks, that editing a newspaper is censorship, or that throwing bricks is a demonstration while building tower blocks is social violence, or that unpalatable statement [...]

Jeffrey Zeldman points to a discussion at MacCentral forum as justifying Apple’s decision to extend the life of OS 9 "a bit longer". As I read the discussion, these people have no intention of ever switching to OS X, Quark or no Quark.
Elsewhere, John Gruber wants Apple to replace the OS X finder with [...]

Apple has evidently backed down from its plan to have all its systems boot only OS X come January (via [lomo]blog).
“To accommodate a minority of our pro customers still running Mac OS 9 applications such as QuarkXPress, Apple will continue to offer a 1.25GHz dual-processor Power Mac that will boot into Mac OS 9 until [...]