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Tim Bray loves

August 3, 2007 by Michael Boyle

his Macbook: Unprofessional in Black. I love mine too, and contrary to the guy in Bray’s comments who doesn’t like the keyboard, I think the Macbook keyboard is probably the best laptop keyboard I’ve ever used (and I’ve used many, on both sides of the aisle (i.e., including other Apples, Dell, IBM/Lenovo, etc.).

Tags: Apple

Ooof. Calling Rogers is painful,

July 20, 2007 by Michael Boyle

especially when it’s to buy a data plan from them. Nadia got a new phone yesterday – a Treo like mine – and for a device like that, a data plan is pretty important. So I called them up – knowing already what the deal on the table was – and signed up for a 3MB plan… for $25. I feel like Rogers is intentionally laughing at me or something. They invented plans in the late 90s for WAP and have kept charging people through the nose ever since.

Tags: Mobile, Palm, Price, Rogers, Wireless, Wireless Data

Why has it taken me

July 18, 2007 by Michael Boyle

so long to discover the joys of IMAP? I converted the other day because I was curious and have continued to be frustrated by POP in a multi-client multi-location email environment… and other than the fact that it doesn’t work with Yahoo Mail (my webmail client of choice) or GMail (what I would prefer to use, though it doesn’t work for me very well), it’s a revelation.

Tags: Email

The title of this story in my feeds

June 20, 2007 by Michael Boyle

was Microsoft Agrees to Alter Vista Desktop Search. I wonder if the headline was just a coincidence, or if using a slightly modified “AltaVista” was a sly joke? (For newer Net folk, back in the day, AltaVista was THE search engine.)

Tags: Funny, Microsoft

This should be interesting:

June 18, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Google Public Policy Blog. I’d like them to clarify, as a matter of public policy, what permissions they are seeking, if any, related to published books and more about their position on scanning in printed works, in or out of copyright.

Tags: Google, Public Policy

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