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Interesting article via #linux on irc.linux.ie.
No Mark, just because I spent some time in 2 Apple Stores, I’m not going to buy a Mac! I was impressed by the different types of people using the machines though, everybody from a Mac geek wearing a ‘Mac Inside’ tshirt to a musician in a corner to a middle aged couple fiddling with a desktop machine.

If you’ve spent any time at all in Chicago you may have come across 103.5 KISS-FM. I listened to this station all the time and now I can listen at home too! They have a streaming media page but it links to a popup full of javascript. If you’re running Linux it probably won’t be very useful. However, here’s the url you should feed to mplayer, xine, or your favourite Windows Media player..

http://ccdig.liquidviewer.com/wksc

Well, I’m off shortly to meet up with some distant relations here in Chicago. AFAIK, several of my great-grand-uncles moved to the States in the 20’s. Some moved to Chicago. I’m looking forward to meeting Pat and Linda tonight!
I took lots of photos at the weekend – The Chicago Air and Water Show was on over the last two days. Whatever about trying to capture the flight of a baseball, trying to track a figer jet as it zoomed past 400 feet away at 650mph is practically impossible!
I’m almost 100% sure I saw cloud form on the tail of one jet as it flew at that speed. Isn’t that what happens just after they go super-sonic? The bi-planes, and Hurricanes were a lot easier to photograph, and if I have time tomorrow I’ll post some pictures here.

and my monitor just flickered. I’m on the 38th floor and out of here before I have to walk down a long flight of stairs! New York and elsewhere were caught in a huge power-cut just an hour or so ago!

It never rains but it pours.
It’s been a busy 2 days. 🙁

Russell Beattie doesn’t pull any punches critizising Arnie. Ahem, I have to agree with him, but as I can’t vote in California, it doesn’t bother me too much! (200 standing for the election and counting according to the paper this morning, including a 100 year old woman!)

Ah, yes. It’s a good morning when there’s no spam in your inbox! Over the past few days a new breed of spam found it’s way into my inbox.
This new spam was short in length, almost completely html based with short sentences and didn’t ever score over 3.5 on Spam Assassin. I spent those last few days training SA to recognise the new spam and this morning my inbox is empty once more!
My bulging SPAM folder has reached 6.5MB (No, I don’t get that much spam, I haven’t emptied it since Aug 6th!) and hardly a false positive in sight! Happy times indeed!

TIME Magazine ran a series of articles last week on Howard Dean, the presidential hopeful. I hadn’t a clue who this guy was, except that Kevin Lyda and others were pushing his website occasionally. The Time article above is balanced, showing the good and bad sides of the candidate.
In the printed article there’s a chart drawing comparisions between Dean and Bush. They’re not so different…

Ah yes, another week, but the pressure isn’t on yet. I went to 2 baseball games at the weekend – saw the White Sox win on Friday and Sunday. Great games, good entertainment and got some great photos!

Lots of good points for techies in this article. Basically, tell your boss what you’re doing. Easier said than done, and yes, I certainly don’t remember everything I’ve done on any particular day.
And in case you want to go it alone, you should probably read this article, second in a series.