I was not distressed to learn that this Power Mac 4400 (bought in 1997) is too old for MacOS X – until I found that Mozilla is not available for MacOS 8.

Black Man With A Gun — Firearm Activist of Color

They tell me that all SprintPCS telephones in areas 41x are having trouble today. (Mine, in 415, does not ring; but I can call out.) I wonder whether it’s a bug in 411 service (Directory Assistance).

I’m surprised to find that I haven’t linked this before: The Social Life of Paper by Malcolm Gladwell

This idea that paper facilitates a highly specialized cognitive and social process is a far cry from the way we have historically thought about the stuff.

(Later: Ah, I did link to the same content before.)

Greg Apodaca’s Digital Retouching Portfolio. Some of the examples are startling. (Link from B3ta.)

So this personnel agent asks me to add some items to my résumé and mail it to her. No sweat. I keep the thing in HTML, because it’s convenient and relatively efficient. But when my agent gets it, oh dear, she sees no icon showing the attachment (because HTML is a format that Outlook understands, so it displays the content rather than a mere icon) and so she can’t save my résumé in her database and mail it to the client. Could I possibly put it in (I groan in anticipation) Word?

So I go to my housemate’s computer, download résumé.html (2617 bytes), open it in MessyWord, save it in Redmond format (23552 bytes), mail it to myself, save it, and mail that to the agent.

Argh. Such irony: her convenience requires the file to be in a format that her mail client cannot read; and so I send it in a format with the most generic extension — .doc — which Their own mail client treats as alien.

about tomaken – look at the source for a chuckle. (link from Redmaiden)