I’m on my way to Nashville today. The NAMM show starts on Friday. Before that I’ve got a presentation, booth setup and a few meetings with the media. If all goes well I’ll make it to the Todd Rundgren show tonight. I’d have liked to made it to Macworld CreativePro, but logistically I can’t do both shows in the same calendar year. I’ll post if there’s any relevant news at the show.
Monthly Archive for July, 2003
I had no idea that The Elements of Style was available as an online reference. Rule number one somehow always stayed with me, and I just did a Google Search for strunk and white as a preemptive measure to parry any attempts at correcting my use of Job’s in the previous post.
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Disclaimer: Owning or having read The Elements of Style makes me no more knowledgeable about usage than does owing a copy of FrontPage make someone a web developer. Even better, I can buy a chainsaw at Home Depot, but you probably wouldn’t want to hire me to get rid of your trees. Feel free to read into the previous two sentences as much as you want.
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There’s an interesting article on Steve Jobs’s choice of attire at statesman.com. I went though a big black mock/jeans phase myself many years back and can still be seen decked out in that combo from time to time, however I was never conscious of any sociological reason for making that choice (Jobs was in NeXT purgatory at the time, I was certainly not trying to emulate him). [via macfixit]
The first page of a Google Search for iBook Wake Sleep Problem displays results 1 - 10 of about 3,110. That gives you the general idea that there have been quite a few experiences of iBooks not waking from sleep documented on the ‘net. The only reason I’m writing this is because I’ve experienced the same as of late.
This thread on MacOSXhints.com while talking about Powerbook G4s attempts to work around the issue by having you pretend that the machine is awake and only the screen is sleeping. While this thread (pertaining to a linux install on an iBook) says that ATI’s Radeon 7500 Mobility chipset is to blame, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
I’m looking forward to finally finding a solution to this problem once and for all. You can be sure I’ll post more details here as I discover them.
Update: Apple’s discussion area has a very useful response in this thread.