I’m sure some of you will respond to this revelation with a “Well, duh!”, but CompuServe is still around.
One of the ladies in our minichurch has a cs.com e-mail address, and suddenly curious as to what that domain was, I punched it in to Safari’s address box. Lo and behold, it’s CompuServe.
Which is now owned by Netscape.
Which is owned by AOL Time Warner.
Weirdness.
Tag: tech
My favorite band contains big Apple fans apparently. Way cool.
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I downloaded the new iChat icons for .Mac members, but I’m fairly certain I won’t use any of them.
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Europe at night: a digital composite of archived satellite images.
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If you have a Nick-N-Willy’s in your area, and you haven’t tried a pizza from them yet, I encourage you to do so. No, they won’t hold a candle to those from a real NYC- or Chicago-style pizzeria, but the pizzas are way better than any you’ll get from the typical fast-food pizza guys. I’m now discarding all of the Papa John’s coupons we receive each week.
Got my “Thanks but no thanks” e-mail from Google today. Not that I’m really surprised. What was surprising was getting a response from them to begin with. Given how Windows-centric the company is on the desktop, and given how Macintosh-centric my resumé is, I wondered why I even got a chance at a screener review in the first place.
Winn Schwartau, on conducting a total cost of ownership (TCO) breakdown comparing a Windows PC to an Intel Macintosh, what he refers to as a “MacTel”:
The results of this TCO astounded me. For my small enterprise, owning a WinTel box for three years costs twice as much as owning a MacTel.
Somehow, this just seemed to go hand-in-hand with my previous post.
There’s a line in The Usual Suspects where Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal Kint says, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
The greatest trick Microsoft has gotten away with is convincing the public that the Wintel PC platform is open.
I think the familiarity John talks about in his piece is the main reason (coupled with the just-a-year-old PC they have) my parents haven’t switched.
I have this theory that there is an ineffable quality to certain attractive consumer products, and I can only term it niceness. It’s the MSG of consumerism – you don’t know what it tastes like by itself but you know when it’s present and you know when it’s not.
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It’s somewhere in the confluence of size, shape, materials, texture and that pleasant weightiness that lesser products don’t have. I said it was the MSG of consumerism. Sometimes I wonder if it isn’t more like consumerism’s crack cocaine. Jonathan Ive is my dealer.
Welch wants one, but I think if that thing was in my house, it would end up in pieces once I hunted it down.
Camino, which is fast becoming my favorite browser, has finally been officially released.
The RSS auto-detect feature, a la Safari, is what is keeping me from completely switching from Apple’s browser.
[Via Chris.]
Dell has discontinued its sale of hard drive-baesd MP3 players.
John Gruber:
Someone should make a list of all the pundits and tech columnists who, back in October 2003 when Dell first introduced the DJ, predicted that it was the beginning of the end for the iPod.
If you find yourself wishing you could have your very own online calendar to sync with iCal, but
1. Have not the resources available to you, or
2. Have not the desire to learn how to set up PHP iCalendar
then Tom can help you out with his new calendar hosting service. Just be sure to tell him the Retrophisch™ sent you.