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My Favorite Leopard Feature

It turns out I am easy to impress. My favorite Leopard feature is the new hash comment style in AppleScript. This allows AppleScript text files to use she-bang style shell scripting. Really cool stuff. I should really upgrade soon.

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USENET Meme

David Levine has started a new meme. Find and publish your earliest USENET post. Mine is from January 21, 1994. I sure wish it was more interesting: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/000a99e8a33cfb60

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Megan Extreme

Sunday, August 12 was suppose to be a special day for Megan and I. We went to California Extreme together. After driving about an hour to get to Parkside Hall in San Jose, I payed thirty dollars for me and fifteen for Megan to enter…

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Open and close

What do you mean when you say a platform is closed? On the many mailing lists I subscribe to I too often hear that the Mac OS is a closed platform. I usually calm myself down and repeat the mantra, "He's prolly a Linux user."…

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