As you may have noticed, most of Deep Thought’s content has well, umm, gone. This is my fault as I accidentally overwrote the database (I didn’t realise until someone told me a few minutes ago). I don’t have a back up myself, though my host hopefully will. If they do, then all will be good; if not, then I guess we’ve lost the few posts we actually have made so far.

The forums are unaffected by this. Oh, and I’ll remember to make weekly backups of the DB from now on.

Apple has officially announced the opening of the Canadian iTunes Music Store. Songs cost 99 cents Canadian, or roughly 84 cents US, which makes �the cost-per-song the lowest of all available localizations of the store.�, according to MacRumors.

The Washington Times has named the iMac G5 their Computer of the Year. From the article:

It will cost close to $2,100 to get the supersized 20-inch model with extra RAM and a wireless keyboard and mouse. That’s a relatively high price in this age of far-less-expensive Windows-based machines. But Apple Computers IMac G5 is a very impressive machine. It earns top honors from this column, and might well earn a top spot on your holiday shopping list.

Read the full article here.

News.com.com reports that Apple is opening a retail store in Toronto in 2005, their first in Canada.  There’s no word on other Canadian locations, but it’s a step in the right direction.  I just wish there were one on my side of the continent!

The UK Department of Work and Pensions had computer problems earlier this week leaving many people without access to benefits. It turns out that when they upgraded 7 PC’s from Windows 2000 to Windows XP it caused a BSOD (crash) on 60,000 other PC’s. I’m sure that Microsoft won’t find this amusing as they are currently trying to get people to switch to XP while they work on their next gen OS, Windows Longhorn.