Return of the Mac

Didn’t believe me? Read this.

Return of the Mac

Yo Steve.

I want Tiger.

Now.

Apple - Mac OS X

You can go back to your regular life now.

50 Tracks: All Canada, All the time

Somewhat to my surprise - mostly due to the addiction that is my Squeezebox preventing me from listening to CBC much - this week’s Radio 3 broadcast was pre-empted for the 50 Tracks: Canada countdown. You’ll find the list if you follow the link below.

CBC Radio | 50 Tracks | The List

Now, all in all I like this list. Some very good stuff on there, altough as usual I could disagree with some of the ratings: Blue Rodeo’s “Try” comes out ahead of the “The Weight” by The Band…the latter is arguably one of the most influential tracks of its era, Canadian or otherwise. A bit odd.

But seriously folks: Barenaked Ladies “If I had $1000000” at number two? Ahead of “Heart of Gold” by Neil Young? What were you smoking.

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Moby. Hotel.

I just bought my first post-iPod post-modern CD: Moby’s Hotel.

It’s not the first CD I’ve purchased since the iPod was invented - I’ve been ripping and burning forever now, with my first MP3 download on April 6, 1998

My music has largely been living in iTunes (although I still have a few CDs kicking around) since it’s existed (and before that in the sublimely superb Audion), but this is the first CD I’ve bought since I had an iPod.

So here’s an interesting question: will I ever actually play this CD?

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Further evidence of the demise of Time magazine

This is being sold as journalism?

TIME.com: Condi on the Rise — Mar. 28, 2005

What’s next - Fox News?

Oops.

Do Computers and Kids Mix?

I was raised with a Macintosh in hand. Maybe not quite - I was 13 when the Mac debuted, but I already had a computer at home when the first Macs arrived in our school lab thanks to Apple Canada. This made this article particularly interesting:

Telegraph | News | Pupils make more progress in 3Rs ‘without aid of computers’

What’s that? No computers for kids? How will they ever learn?

Easy: by making mistakes.

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Search Engine Optimization

This article, recently in Wired News, has an interesting take on the topic of search engine optimization:

Wired News: Search Rank Easy to Manipulate

I’ve made some reasonably provocative statements about search engine optimization in the past (all of which I would stand by today) and this article does little to change them. It does, however, provide a counterpoint and a compelling argument for why I am both right, and wrong.

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So I quit a job

Which is astounding, really, because I spent so much time looking for one.

Of course, when one came along so did another - and it is, as the saying goes, the part I was born to play.

So here I am, no longer overemployed and underpaid - now I’m just underpaid.

But I get my weekends back soon, and a bunch of people are going to be happy because I’ll have more time to actually finish those things I’ve committed to. I’ll be happy because I finally have time to start doing things like running, and riding my bike, and maybe even getting out into the mountains a little bit again.

I need to prepare for South America, and those mountains are beckoning.

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