Archive for April, 2003



digital living

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Here’s a good article about digital living, in this case, a person whos life is completely integrated with his Macs and the digital hub they create.

The final sentence wraps it up well:

“I don’t know how many of you leave your ‘chat’ application up 24/7, but for me when I see my friends ‘green’ light on [...]

Despite crap, there is still music

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I read  a well written blog entry over at back-to-iraq.com just now..

its great to know despite what people go through, in this case, the kurds, they can still enjoy music to lift their spirits.

I love the first paragraph:

“DIYARBAKIR — Sunday night in Diyarbakir is actually a lot more entertaining than it sounds. Emre has [...]

New battery tech

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Could this be the new form of portable power source?

Powering my PowerBook off alcohol for a month at a time would be awesome! (even days would be great!)

I wonder if this could be applied to the Segway HT which currently runs NiMH batteries (rechargeable)... I know they are looking at alternate power sources such as [...]

funy web link, u should read ths 2

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“Carl Sharp knew there was a problem when he spotted his 15-year-old son’s summer job application: “i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids.”“

read the story here

I heard this song on the radio

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I heard a song on the radio that I didn’t catch the name of or who it was by. Doh.

Maybe someone can help me find it?

It contains a man reading out (note: he paraphrases the book a lot) an anti-war book by Kurt Vonnegut called “Slaughter House-Five”

here is a segment of the book [...]

Live music making

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Had a semi jam with a couple of friends on sunday. “Semi” because it didn’t go too well. Keith had problems with his ti PowerBook.

He installed the OS X update to 10.2.4 and when he rebooted it would no longer log in… anyway, thats not what this post is about…

I wanted to talk about [...]

“Soldiers at the door”

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I was listening RRR, my local community radio station and heard about this story. Pretty scary.

heres an exerpt:

“, a band member of mine who prefers to go unnamed, his mother received a visit from two plainclothes men from the military – and this band member of mine has a sibling who is in the Gulf.

And [...]



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Cris Pearson from Melbourne, Australia.
Grew up in George Town, Tasmania.

CEO, co-founder, interaction + interface + graphic
+ web designer at plasq.

We are best known for Comic Life which was bundled with Millions of Apple Macs and now the much lauded, Skitch!.

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