Blunt Advice and No Pity Get Ratings for Dr. Phil
He made Cathy, a mom who raged at her son while driving, watch a videotape of herself yelling and froze it at the moment she said, “Shut up, Vincent,” then replayed her words 11 times at top volume as she hung her head and sobbed, a moment of counseling that came close to the aversion therapy scene in “A Clockwork Orange.”
I say right on.
Go to Jeremy Zawodny’s blog and learn how to create RSS feeds from Yahoo! Finance. Now you can have your very own Company News group in NetNewsWire for any (public) company you want. Yet another replacement for my My Yahoo! page.
WSJ.com: Economists are increasingly upbeat about the pace of growth for the third quarter but are marking down their forecasts for the fourth quarter mainly due to fears consumer spending will slow down.
Just so I can find this again when I need it later, here’s how you make USB keyboards swap Caps Lock & Control under MacOS X:
1. Edit /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/ Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBKeyboard.kext/Contents/Info.plist and add:
<key>Swap control and capslock</key>
<integer>1</integer>
under IOKitPersonalities/AppleUSBKeyboard. Here is a properly edited Info.plist for the first release of 10.1, but be aware that other parts of the file may be incorrect for future versions of the driver. You can, of course, use the PropertyListEditor application that comes with the developer tools to add the property.
2. Remove the file /System/Library/Extensions.mkext. This is a device driver cache. The modified AppleUSBKeyboard driver will not be loaded if this exists. The next reboot will rebuild this file with the modified AppleUSBKeyboard driver. (And the reboot will take a bit longer than normal as it builds the file.)
3. Reboot.
Xbox seeks to ring in holiday sales, but it’ll be a failure. After costing the company $2 billion, will give up and kill the Xbox group in March or April of next year. Xbox will become a joke in video game history along with Intellivision and Coleco: “Remember when Microsoft made a video game machine?”
WSJ.com: Wall Street analysts have gotten a lot of things wrong in the past couple of years, but when they said this September’s preannouncement season was going to be a doozy, they couldn’t have been more right.
Today is the first day that the Vashon ferries run to downtown Seattle. So we went into the city for dinner at Oceanaire and then to Dahlia for a drink. We even rode the bus to get back on the ferry home.
Just as we open a Wells Fargo account, Wells Fargo reports Web site outage.
Nicholas Negroponte has an article in Wired about community 802.11 networks: a broadband system built by the people for the people.
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