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Mac OS X Tiger to ship April 29
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Apple on Tuesday announced the ship date for its next generation operating system, Mac OS X Tiger. The operating system, which the company says includes hundreds of enhancements, will be available to customers beginning at 6:00 pm on Friday, April 29, 2005, at special events held at the company’s retail locations and authorized retailers. Pre-orders for Tiger are being taken today at the online Apple Store — Tiger will cost US$129.
Keeping It Personal
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How do you make a “trusted system”, the term David Allen uses to denote a planning and organisational system which can be relied upon to contain your events, tasks, projects and thoughts? Its easy to get carried away in tweaking productivity methodologies, but mind like water is only achieved when such a system is fully implemented and consulted on a day-to-day basis. One of the biggest obstacles for many people, myself included, is how to create a system that is always there, at the ready, and worthy of your trust.
The article gives all the reasons I don’t have a “planning” system. However, the solution given in this article won’t work for me… bummer.
Fiona Apple saga shows Sony’s core dilemma
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What grabbed my attention was a voice I hadn’t heard for some years: Fiona Apple, American chanteuse best known for her 1996 debut album “Tidal” and its 59-word-titled followup “When The Pawn…” (we’ll save you the rest). Noted the title of the song being played, thinking to listen to it again, as both her ripped albums lurk in my MP3 collection. But the track (“Red Red Red”) wasn’t there.
Odd: it can’t be off her third album, because Ms Apple hasn’t released one. But Google the song title, and a much more interesting story emerges. It turns out she has done a third album, titled “Extraordinary Machine”, which was completed in May 2003. Recorded, produced, done, dusted. All it needed was the nod from the people at Sony for the CD presses to roll.
They didn’t. The album “was quickly shelved by the sad corporate drones over at Sony because they didn’t ‘hear a single’ and because it doesn’t sound exactly like Norah Jones and because they’re, well, corporate drones,” wrote Mark Morford in the San Francisco Chronicle. Sony wanted something more like her earlier stuff. But she wasn’t writing that stuff any more. Impasse.
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Buzztracker
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Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory.
Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the globe. Connections between cities thousands of miles apart become apparent at a glance.
Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology is rapidly spreading through the blogosphere, it seems. I’ve got his book lying around, but keep forgetting to read it–my sense is that I won’t like the draconian work style rearrangement either.