January 29, 2005
Appleseed
From the Apple movie trailers site: Appleseed.
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January 26, 2005
Liberation of Death Camps
Today is the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps.
On Making Light, We Never Knew takes apart the myth that the world was ignorant of Hitler's plan.
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January 25, 2005
Europe vs America
Europe vs America, by Tony Judt.
As a consequence, Americans live shorter lives than West Europeans. Their children are more likely to die in infancy: the US ranks twenty-sixth among industrial nations in infant mortality, with a rate double that of Sweden, higher than Slovenia's, and only just ahead of Lithuania's—and this despite spending 15 percent of US gross domestic product on "health care"
via the Sideshow.
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January 12, 2005
Mini-mac
Today, Apple released a bunch of new things including the Mac mini.
One area where the mini-macs could make a killing is as video conferencing machines.
I've been experimenting with iChat to AIM and the results are very patchy - the PC end of the connection gets very poor audio and video quality unless the interconnecting bandwidth is very high — like a T1 on each end.
The Mac end is reportedly very good. Even with a good connection, the PC user gets a small little window, while the Mac user gets to resize the window and has more control over what's going on.
Mac to Mac is much better, or so I'm told, even when the bandwidth is poor.
With the next OS X release, four-way chat will be possible, something beyond AIM at the moment.
OSX Tiger with four-way iChat and an iSight on a mini-mac sounds like a good, inexpensive solution for multi-way video conferencing. And ten-way audio conferencing.
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January 06, 2005
Tsunami Fundraiser @ Carnegies
Just received a communication on the musician's grapevine:
This Saturday there will be live music in Carnegies (Lockhart Road, Wanchai) in aid of the Tsunami Disaster appeal. Carnegies will be giving 50% of takings to Oxfam and there will be donation boxes around the bar so that you can chip in with much needed extra dosh. See you there.
Carnegie's Presents:
TSUNAMI RELIEF
Two of Hong Kong's Best Live Bands,
One Night Only
9th State
Tunnel Vision
w/ Special Guests
Your Donations and Half of Every Purchase to OXFAM
This Saturday Night (8th Jan.), 9PM
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January 03, 2005
Happy New Year
A happy and prosperous new year to all.