Monthly Archives: March 2003

TrackBack Tutorial

It’s like the folks at Movable Type read my mind. This TrackBack thingie had me scratching my head. Now there is A Beginner’s Guide to TrackBack, complete with a Quicktime demo. So far I’ve retroactively pinged two people’s blog entries. Watch out you might be next – I’m a lean, mean pinging machine!

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As American as Baseball, Lumpia and Apple Pie

That was the byline promoting Pati Poblete’s Living column in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.

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Identifying with the Macintosh

In an article referenced in the previous post, we had a writer liken a Macintosh user to a Communist. Elsewhere, the late Rodney O. Lain, the “iBrotha,” drew parallelisms between the Macintosh and being a racial minority. Why do some marginalized groups identify with the Macintosh? Surely, the status of the Mac as the underdog [...]

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Gore joins Apple Board

Former Vice President Al Gore joins Apple’s board of directors, filling a spot left vacant by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Hmmm, would Gore now claim he “took the initiative” in creating the Macintosh? Tee-hee.
Update: Ultra-conservative Rush Limbaugh is none too happy about the Apple-Gore news. Rush is an avid Mac user and is horrified that [...]

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Asian Art Museum Opening

The new Asian Art Museum opens tomorrow in the recommissioned old San Francisco Main Library at Civic Center, closer to the hustle and bustle of downtown San Francisco. My last visit to the museum was at its old home in serene Golden Gate Park during an exhibit of Filipino contemporary artists’ work.

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