I am afraid I’m finding “Baghdad Burning“, the blog of an “girl from Iraq”, pretty much required reading these days, if only as a way to counterbalance our inevitably continuous exposure to the US administration’s inanities. Of particular interest: “Friends, Americans, Countrymen…“. And this: “Under the Palm Leaves“. And all the rest… And for a […]
Since I’ve renewed my .Mac account for another year, I’ve decided to make better use of its features. For example, I can remove some of the larger files on my own site at www.latext.com that don’t need to be accessed regularly and for which the exact URL is not important to the end user (my […]
Fred Kaplan writes for Slate: The opportunity presented by 9/11 may not be irretrievably lost, but it has been muffed, and its recovery will require more decisive signals than Bush has so far sent. It will also, to be fair, require a less prickly world-weariness on the part of the French and Germans. Maybe they […]
Richard Drew, the Associated Press photographer who took the picture of that man falling down after having jumped from his office window in the World Trace Centre on September 11, 2001, wrote a good column in the Los Angeles Times about his and people’s response to the event and the photograph.
The Falseness of Anti-Americanismby Fouad Ajami
I find it mind-boggling that such an article even gets published (in Foreign Policy). Instead of trying to address any of the valid issues raised by people both inside and outside the US, the author simply pits the US (the good) against the rest of the world (the bad, i.e. mostly France and Arab countries, […]
It had to happen… I’ve just written an item about the fact that I did not renew my MacFixIt Pro subscription because I didn’t feel I was getting my money’s worth… and today, I find an item on the site (“Troubleshooting .Mac Backup 2.0 Beta”, dated September 9) that will remove a significant Mac OS […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says, “I told you so“, and, of course, he’s right. He was right all along. Does Mr. Bush care to admit that he was wrong? Not one bit. I didn’t even bother to listen to his televised address on Sunday. It was bound to be more of the same. […]
The New York Times has an article on the hit BBC2 TV series “Coupling” and the upcoming American version on NBC. It talks about the fact that the American version will have “more emotional” relationships because that’ what the American wants. God, just what we need. More sentimental stuff on American TV. And “more aggressively […]
Mail rules involving email addresses still case-sensitive A long time ago (over 1 year ago), I noted in an article the following: … [U]nlike other rule criteria in Mail, the “Sender is/is not in Address Book” and “Sender is/is not in Group” criteria are case-sensitive, meaning that the individual’s email has to appear in your […]
Funnily enough, I found the transcript of the chat with Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten on September 8 much funnier than the original column that the chat was about. Is it bad, Doctor?
Last week I wrote about Mac OS X’s “Full Keyboard Access” feature. Reader feedback has helped me clarify exactly how the feature works. It’s available in System Preferences, in the “Keyboard” preference pane, in the second tab. The layout of this preference pane is thoroughly confusing. The fact that the tab itself is titled “Full […]
Mac OS X introduced a new behavior for application switching in which clicking on the window of a document belonging to a background application only brings that document window to the foreground, and not all the other windows belonging to that application as well at the same time, as used to be the case in […]
Tis the season of renewals… or so it seems. Today I got an email from Apple indicating that my credit card information for my .Mac account was no longer valid. A nice way of reminding me that the account itself is up for renewal… At least they didn’t wait until the actual renewal to CHECK […]
A year ago, when the popular troubleshooting site MacFixIt went pro, I immediately subscribed, figuring that the help that the site had provided over the years was well worth it. Recently, I have received a couple of reminders asking me to renew my subscription. I am afraid I will not renew it. It seems to […]
It’s hard not to sympathize with the French when it comes to chocolate and new European rules that allow manufacturers to include up to 5 percent of vegetable fat (other than cocoa butter) and still call the end product “chocolate”. Is it the “end of chocolate as a chocolatier knows it“? It’s quite obviously the […]