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It’s over. It was pretty painless. Only a little glitch with Virtual PC, but everything runs crisper. faster. Spotlight is a little mind blowing because it changes the paradigm. I can feel the amazon book purchasing bug starting. I have no idea how to use Automator, but I want to. What is this automatic watermarking feature of Preview that I never heard about?

Safari is pretty fast and the RSS newsreader feature is great. I have been using Firefox for some time now because of performance - it’s just faster - but it looks like Safari has caught up. It always feels better to use Apple’s native stuff, anyway.

Microsoft Word and Entourage, the functional CPU sinks that they are (nice software, but bloated, you know..) seem to run faster. Mail doesn’t connect to Exchange via MAPI or tunnel through OWA. I thought that would be too much to ask anyway. But since spotlight searches Mail messages and not Entourage, it’s back to the toss up of which mail client to use. Option is to archive Entourage messages in Mail for searching with spotlight. That shouldn’t hurt anything.

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Let’s hope that Tiger doesn’t have one of those “erases your hard drive” bugs. Less than 24 hours to go….

Tiger is on the way. Now, what will it be like to save files in an OS where everything is indexed and easy to find? I can’t wait to find out!

Very interesting - you can go to T-mobile’s Web site and punch in your address to find out how good the coverage to the level of your street.

It confirms what Seattle residents have always known about the enormous coverage hole in the middle of Capitol Hill, one of Seattle’s most dense neighborhoods.

It does not confirm another well known coverage hole on 15th Ave and John. We all know it’s there….

Coverage Areas

Look at these lovely shots from brunch today, using Matt’s new million megapixel camera. I look so fragile, so tender on a Sunday morning….blech. Calkins Cove: Spring Brunch University Village

Even the opening video is cool. Only a few more days…

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BusinessWeek, yes BusinessWeek, launches a blog: We’re Off.

It happens to use movable type software. And you know what, they’re right, blogs are the new form of communication, and they will not replace publishing. I’m really excited.

Article in the Seattle Stranger gives the background: Microsoft Caves on Gay Rights, Pressured by Evangelical Minister, Microsoft Withdraws Support for Civil Rights Bill, by Sandeep Kaushik (04/21/05)

After having several discussions with my friends about this and hearing about the employee experience, I have several observations.

1. I am disappointed, deeply, in the way Microsoft handled this. I think there was a missed opportunity to show “emotional intelligence” in handling this. And, it was missed.

2. One thing that I picked up on was the number of companies in Washington who supported the bill - I first thought that Microsoft was going out on a limb to have a position on something like this, but now I don’t think that’s the case. It will be up to Microsoft’s customer base to figure out what message that sends. It doesn’t send a good one to me.

3. I am still incredibly impressed with the caliber of staff that Microsoft hires and nurtures. A company is not a thing - it is a group of people, and Microsoft has really good people. These people stood up and stand up for equal rights for everyone every day. There is no question that acceptance for all makes for a more productive and healthy workplace. I for one am honored to be in the company of some of these folks.

To get a sense of what “rights” we are talking about, take a look at this list. It’s a long one.

I suppose I wish that the leadership in Redmond would listen to its own employees and use their talent and energy to guide their decision making. I am perfectly fine with a company telling the world that their employees matter more than anything; certainly more than a fringe group with known criminal activity. Doesn’t that strike anyone else as odd?

As I told my friend Matt, who is a hero among his colleagues for speaking out, “When we were young and afraid, we wondered if anyone would stand up for us. Now we are the anyone.” That’s the charge for us adults moving forward.

Update: LA Gay and Lesbian Center asks Microsoft to give back Diversity Award. Sounds like a reasonable request.

It is interesting to follow developments like the merger of Adobe and Macromedia iin the era of blogs, which essentially make GUI Web design tools irrelevant, IMHO (long live BBEdit!).

Then there’s the article
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It is so amusing how magazines for the more “mature” set (not that there’s anything wrong with being mature) don’t seem to get things like, BusinessWeek doesn’t get it in the article iPod Killers?.

The seem to think that Sony’s new walkman phone (which doesn’t even have bluetooth or sizable memory) is competition for the iPod, which does one thing really really well.

It only seems like BusinessWeek is running out of news if this is the best they can do for the cover of their international edition. People like me are very content having a great music player that is separate from a decent phone (and there is no great phone because the carriers hobble them so much) as opposed to having a mediocre both.

It’s about the music, get it?

I just got my Griffin Technology AirClick, and it rocks. It allows you to use a small RF remote to control your iPod. It sort of makes AirTunes irrelevant, because you can manage your iPod from anywhere in your house, pumping out tunes, without hogging all of your powerbook’s cpu cycles (leave it to Microsoft Office to do that…but I digress) and wireless bandwidth.

If the iPod changed my life once, this changed it again. I think.

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Just 5 calories a can!

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