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Monday, June 13, 2005

We're buying a PowerPC Mac: the chip has just loomed so large in my high-tech life, hadda do it. I've bought 'em, used 'em on deadline and marketed 'em through Apple's dark days. I'm an unlikely Xbox customer, so a new (dual CPU) PowerMac it is (and this will be the first time I've ever bought the top-of-the-line Mac for myself). Some midle-age guys take up with a mistress, or buy a Porsche, or both.

Moi, I'm buying one of the last great PowerPC Macs. Spouse is not even complaining (presumably, she sees mistresses and Porsches as a lot messier and more expensive than computers). By the time this machine gets long in the tooth, Apple's Intel machines may be debugged and ready for prime time. But what am I going to do with all this CPU power and FSB bandwidth...? Hmmmm...
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Former Slate editor Michael Kinsley is rocking the op-ed boat at the L.A. Times. A tale of 'purloined' PowerPoints and 'wikitorials'...
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Blogging Break: last week was a little full, Linda was out of town and I just ran out of time to blog. Anyway, we're back. Weather was beautiful and warm in Menlo yesterday and a pleasant summer beckons...
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