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Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:23:16 GMT

Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:22:09 GMT

Thomas Roessler: "Why don't iPods enable us to share music?"

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:59:58 GMT

Steve Gillmor says that the NY Times has changed its archive policy. Apparently all links older than a week are gone, even if they have the magic bits on them. If this is true, it's quite disappointing, now only the BBC maintains an archive of news stories. I've been pointing to Times articles on the assumption that they would keep working over the years. Perhaps this is just a technical glitch. I've sent a note to people at the Times asking for clarification.

Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:56:31 GMT

I just checked Steve's assertion, and it does not appear to be correct. For example, here's an archive page from Nov 28. The top item is a link to a NY Times article. The link works.

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:43:30 GMT

NY Times: "Most powerful quake in 40 years."

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:54:26 GMT

I got an email last night from a friend from Seattle, on vacation on a beach in Thailand in the path of the tsunami. Are they okay? We don't know.

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:49:53 GMT

Ijonas Kisselbach writes: "Koh Pah Ngan is on the other side of mainland Thailand, which didn't suffer any tsunamis. Koh Phi Phi and Phuket were badly hit though."

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:50:27 GMT

Zawodny: "I'm always worried when anyone talks of great little companies being bought by a Big Company."

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:12:46 GMT

Talking Points Memo: "The president and the White House have now compared their build-up to the Iraq war with their push to phase out Social Security enough times that it seems worth creating a detailed taxonomy of the Bush White House approach."

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:06:10 GMT

One of the reasons for staying with Netflix instead of switching to Blockbuster is the new releases feed from Netflix.