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Archive for March, 2005
my laptop died the real death.
the blog is on hiatus.
this is an imaginary post in a reactionary time.
my phone is weirding out, this time it apears to be the phone and not the network provider. I just powered it down and removed the battery for a while, then put it on the charger. When i powered it back up it started to flash various menus randomly then settled down. Seems to be working now.
Urban Djinn is playing 9:30pm Thursday at Smoke Daddy, at 1804 W. Division. Don’t forget the BBQ…
Gordon Patriarca, Bridgeport’s best loved bass player and bass fisher is playing out in his kollege of musical knowledge,
LITTLE BIG MEN,
not your average coverband with the repertory of b-sides, one hit wonders, rare tracks and the ever poular etc, etc. See them at Puffer’s Saturday March 26th.
So get out there and support your local musicians, tip your wait staff and bartenders and drink responsibly, please.
I just read in the Sun-Times that local poet J.J. Jameson was arrested yesterday. Turns out he was an escaped murderer from Massachusetts. Hmmm, Neville is from Massachusetts, and he only has one name 
Either way, never trust anyone who is a church volunteer or helps the elderly.
I’ve seen him read at various poetry slams. I’m sure everyone’s favorite bloated poet wannabe and personal space invader will be regaling anyone he can corner with the tale for the next couple years.
Anyway the FBI and Massachusetts State Police finally nabbed the guy after 20 years, despite his having been arrested 4 times here and in Washington between 89 and 93. Great police work guys.
Everyone is pointing toward MobilePc’s history of portable computing article, Birth of the Notebook. No one is citing the omissions and errors. Chriss Null cites “the big three” of early luggables, including a company that barely shipped and was never a market force, leaving out KayPro, who out shipped Osbourne, and outlived it. Arthur C. Clarke used a KayPro. He cites the OQO as the first full featured palm top, when the Poquet beat it by almost twenty years (and you can still buy them). And where’s mention of all the wonderfull HP handtops, which sold for years? Or the Sharp which beat his cited Epson to market? Or the Psion? Ah, the joys of geekery, nit picking where no one cares…
Nice article about Apple eating it’s long suffering independent reseller base. Article focuses on Nabih’s in Evanston. I quit dealing with them well over ten years ago, during another Apple upsurge, when I got tired of their foul tempered snobbery masquerading as customer service. To be fair, the article mentions other local Apple Authorized resellers who are getting the shaft by the opening of the Apple stores. I really feel bad about the advent of the company store destroying the mom and pops who kept Apple alive in the lean years. Small Dog, in particular I’ll miss, and the stores have already killed off a bunch of places i used for parts and the like (Sun and Shreve Systems). I won’t feel that bad about Nabih’s if they fail. BTW, Nabih’s started out as a cigar store, who started carrying batteries for calculators, then the calculators themselves, then computers. He survived HP lawsuits, the Rise And Fall of Elektek, Kaypro, Northstar and Compaq. I’m sure he’ll survive this– he can always go back to cigars now that they’re hip again.
The Register has an article about Apple cutting off illegal access to iTunes store via PyMusique on Linux.
I broke my rule about supporting outlook express today.
It hurt. I shiver in horror even now. I have sinned.
I will never break that rule again.
For the record, I DO NOT SUPPORT OUTLOOK OR OUTLOOK EXPRESS.
If you must send email from a M$ Windows box, use Eudora.
Outlook and it’s offspring are a crime against nature.
(shrill light of morning and reason comment: i don’t do Frontier either.)
