Monthly Archives: December 2002
Centered
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 … Continue reading
Mike Update
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 … Continue reading
Words don’t deserve that kind of malarkey
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 … Continue reading
Bumpy Road to OS X
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 … Continue reading
Reports of Its Death have Been Exaggerated
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 reading