Something I would like would be a shim between Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk such that, when I click on an Amazon.com link I would automatically get the page from Amazon.co.uk. I'm always going to buy from the .co.uk site but I read so many American weblogs that I typically end up searching to find something I'm already looking at.
As part of my practice for being a new Mac owner I just installed TopDesk from Otaku Software which is an Exposé style tool for Windows XP. It seems to work quite nicely.
Link from Joey deVilla@TheFarm
Is the Sixth Amendment relevant today? You bet it is, especially given the Pentagons use of military tribunals in another country, Cuba, for people accused of terrorism. Ever since their arrest, people accused of terrorism at Guantanamo Bay have been indefinitely detained and denied the right to counsel, due process of law, habeas corpus, trial by jury, and even the right to know exactly what they are being charged with. Most of the proceedings are as secret as they were in the Star Chamber and in Hitlers Peoples Court. Moreover, the federal government is doing everything it can to deny accused terrorist Zacharias Moussaoui the right to cross-examine adverse witnesses and to summon favorable witnesses in his behalf in his federal court prosecution. [Jacob G. Hornberger]
A brief tour through the U.S. sixth amendment, where it comes from, and why.
So, my resistance to the lure of the Apple Powerbook is breaking down. It occurred to me today that even if new Powerbooks get announced in July I probably wouldn't be able to buy one for another 4-5 months and I really don't want to wait. I could, but I don't want to.
In the intervening time I could be using Keynote, TextMate, Tinderbox (finally), SubEthaEdit, making Rails run right, using Unix again, and just generally having a happy and portable experience.
Despite the cost angle the PB is winning over the iBook on account of size, weight, and graphics issues (the inability to drive a 2nd monitor properly being foremost among them). The 12" PB because I want to take it everywhere with me.
So, there is I would say a better than even chance that I will buy a 12" Powerbook at the Apple store on Oxford St. tomorrow. My strategy is to buy with 768MB of memory (a £50 upgrade) then buy a 1Gb stick from Crucial next month and auction off the spare 512.
Wow, I wrote this two years ago:
I still think this. I appreciate that half of Americans (and probably most of the ones I know) think this way. I'm talking to the other half who still give Bush a decent approval rating.Cuba prisoner puts BBC on spot. US authorities abruptly end a media tour of the Guantanamo centre after an inmate tries to start a conversation. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
I think the citizens of the United States of America should be ashamed at the behaviour of their government.
These people should either be given a trial or sent home.
