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A Utility and a Discovery

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Nicolas Riley is making IceCoffEE, an OSX adaptation of the ICeTEe idea. I used to love ICeTEe years ago - basically it makes a command-click on an URL or e-mail address in any application open the URL or generate an e-mail message. I downloaded and installed it. I comes as a plugin for unsanity's APE. The only issue at this point is that it doesn't work at all here. Even logging out and back in didn't help. Demetallifizer works just fine, though. I guess I'll have to mail Nicholas.

He also found a cool essay on switching – from overweight complacency to a healthy lifestyle and from Windows numbness to a Mac. The essay contains memorable lines as

Executives in the PC business use the word "sexy", in such a way that I'm always surprised to discover that their children aren't adopted, and the Mac interface is not "sexy" or sexy, and it would be grotesque to want it to be. It is, in fact, playful, often well over the line into frivolity. It is not businesslike, in precisely the way that nothing should be "businesslike".

and

The chief advantage of Windows 2000 over Windows NT is that the control-key shortcuts for Save and Find work in Notepad, and the chief advantage of Windows XP over Windows 2000 is that you can get English menus in the Japanese input editor.

The author of the essay is Glenn McDonald

While I don't agreee about the soccer broadcasts, that's enough for me to take a closer look and step into his clean-looking site, particularly as he's writing a weekly column about music, called The War against Silence and has a very impressive back catalogue of album reviews. At a first glance I probably won't agree 100% with him (and who said that would be bad?) but it'd definitely more than close enough so I'm sure I'll be back there for more reading. E.g. of his 2002 Top Ten list I know two records, one of which I'd agree to as being brilliant - Low's Trust - while I found Idlewild's The Remote Part disappointing compared to their previous records.

[...] Some more minutes of reading later: I am too sure that I am going to 'waste' by far too much time reading these reviews. They seem to contain so many spot on observations. Joy.

January 31, 2003, 2:33

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