Saturday, January 26, 2002

Slippery Palm

Apple says Palm Desktop 4 is one of the Top OS X downloads. I follow the link to here and then here and find the only actionable link is "Register for Public Beta." When I do that, it thanks me. And that's it. Nothing more. Where the fuck do you download the software?

I think I wrote about this before. I don't remember. I don't have time. I just need to sync this damn thing, and I can't yet in OS X. My laptop and Handspring haven't talked in 2 weeks.

Oh. I see. In an earlier page it tells me an email will come. I just checked. An email did come. I follow the link. Nothing happens.

Does anybody know where I can go to a page or an FTP site to download this thing? Thanks.

[Later...] I finally got through. (Big thanks to everybody who helped.) Two out of the three English download sites were busy (or something, who knows), but the third worked. And even though the install "unexpectedly quit" while importing data, it's now functional, at least on the laptop. I'll have to check it with the Handspring later.

The Little Engine that Got All Wierd

Thanks to RageBoy for finding The Cluetrain Antipasto.

Not the proudest moment for the Washington Post

Jennifer Balderama points to the traction/retraction peek-a-boo AOL-Red Hat story that came and went this past week in the Washington Post. She says,

... here's something for those of you interested in what can go wrong in capital-J Journalism (aka "responsible" journalism) when (a) rumors are assumed to be true, (b) sourcing isn't really buttoned up, and (c) there are Red Flags all around, but the writer doesn't hedge his or her language to acknowledge the "may be true" factor.

I visit the same mess in Look Ma, No Hat, a Suitwatch newsletter that went out on Wednesday.

Yes, Virginia...

Have a deep time

Did I mention I'm a geology freak? Well, I am. But I don't often talk about it because it's one of those subjects that tends to clear the room of all but the other geology freaks, which number, percentage wise in a lightly populated room, around zero.

But still, I'm into it. Which is why reading the geological history of Virginia occupied the last half hour of my life. If you're still in the room, you might wanna dig it.