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Saturday, June 14, 2003

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Selling Out: The Pocket Jukebox That's Shaking Up The World's Music Industry
by Danielle Demetriou, Independent
Weighing little more than a tube of toothpaste and fitting easily inside the palm of the hand, an innocuous British-designed gadget is leading a revolution in the music industry.

News

Apple Re-Issues Security Update For Mac OS X
by Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral
Security Update 2003-06-09 2.0 apparently fixes a login problem where you had to hit the return key instead of the login button.

School Committee Nams Two To Consolidation Panel
by Paula Gibbs, Wiscasset Newspaper
Apple is offering school systems a three year payment plan [for Powerschool], with a very low or token payment the first year. If the school system signs on by June 30, the company will throw in a free $4,000 server.

Opinion

R.I.P.
by Jeffrey Zeldman
On this grey and rainy day, this news of a kind of death brings no warmth.

Review

Top Ten Digital Video Tips
by Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network
Apply one or more of these tips to your movie making, and I guarantee you'll be rewarded with terrific results.

Sidetrack

Saturday, June 14, 2003
by Heng-Cheong Leong

STUPID WEBSITES : Visited Dallas Morning News' web site, who asked me to register first before letting me read. So I did. Except that the stupid registration form allows me to indicate I'm from Singapore (and not U.S.), but insists I enter a 5-digit ZIP code. (In Singapore, it's 6 digit postal code. I'm sure there are other countries that uses alphanumeric postal code.)

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

So what do I do? I faked the data. Now, Dallas Morning News have a visitor from Singapore with a ZIP code of 12345.

Nowadays, it's so darn difficult to be an honest man.

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