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Sunday, March 20, 2005
Searching for Bobby Fisher, Part Two?

To my delight and amazement, both Daniel (7) and Matthew (4) have learned to play chess! I started Daniel off with Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster, an absolutely first rate educational game to learn the basics. Although my intent was for Daniel to use it, Matthew also got into it! In what I hope will become a regular event, I played both of them at the same time on Saturday morning. In this photo, Matthew was playing white, and I was toast:

Saturday Morning Chess


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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. --Publilius Syrus


Sunday, March 13, 2005
How To Check G-mail With Your News Aggregator

Did you know that your G-mail account comes with an Atom feed of your messages? This means that you could check you Gmail messages with you RSS aggregator (as long as it supports Atom feeds). See Google's help page for details of how to do it.

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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. --Socrates


Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Way to go, Apple!

We knew iPods were a hot seller this past Holiday season, but I've been amazed at how many friends and colleagues have been buying iPods, Mini's, and Shuffles since the holidays. Maybe they'll wind up buying a new dual-processor G5 (see previous post).

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Thanks a lot, Apple

I finally helped bring a long time colleague over from the Dark Side to Apple and OS X. He used to be a Mac user in the bad old days, but then switched to Windows out of disgust. He ordered a new dual processor G5 and studio display and added memory and a hard disk. After one week of unreliable behavior Apple tech support told him it was a DOA (dead on arrival). Now, they're sending him a new one of course, but I can't help but feel that the Mother Ship has let me down.

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Analyst: Apple Interested in Buying TiVo

Analyst: Apple Interested in Buying TiVo:

Apple is interested in buying digital video recorder (DVR) pioneer and market leader TiVo, according to a Wall Street analyst. "What we hear on the street is that Apple is interested in their business and that they are a takeout target," analyst Steven Kroll Jr. of Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. told Reuters.

Apple would have been much better off buying Sonicblue, the maker of ReplayTV (currently owned by Marantz) when they were being shopped around several years ago.

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It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. --Publilius Syrus