Looks like Paul Thurrott will hear the wrath of Mac users again.

Spotlight’s biggest claims to fame, presumably, are its near-instant search results and support for document meta data, both of which are, again, planned features of Longhorn. But no matter. While Apple has been busy copping Windows features since Jobs returned to Apple in late 1996, the company’s tiny market share ensures that very few people will benefit from Spotlight, despite Apple claims that it will deliver on desktop search a year before Microsoft ships Longhorn.

Link to MacNN article. | Link to WinSuperSite Article

Let me first say that both companies copy each other. For example, Apple borrowed Fast User Switching, Microsoft borrowed iMovie. Apple added integrated faxing into the OS after Windows did, Microsoft borrowed the idea of the iTunes Music Store. That said, should Thurrott even bother to say that “Apple has been busy copying Windows since Jobs returned to Apple”? And has Apple really been copying Windows all that time? I don’t see Apple copying the Windows XP look and feel, the Windows XP task-based UI, or even the Taskbar (The Dock is evolved from the NeXT Dock, which came long before Windows 95 and…
(Continue)

Apple today released Mac OS 10.3.7.  The update brings improvements to graphics card drivers, Firewire device compatibility and numerous other bug fixes.  Weighing in at a mere 17.1 MB this is a small update in comparison to older ones.  But I suspect it may be an important one for a lot of people who had some problems with 10.3.6.

Bob

This TV program apparently will pit a woman against 10 people, one of whom is her father.  She must guess which one, to win a $100,000 prize.  How crass can you be - the poor woman will be having a nervous breakdown by the end of it.

This is an example weblog entry. We added it as a place-holder, so the page wouldn’t be blank. You can delete it from within your control panel.

So yesterday I mostly spent vomiting every half an hour (which was nice).  And today I have mostly spent in bed trying to recover.  It appears that I got some sort of nasty stomach flu… This is bad.  On the plus side, the staying in bed today means that I got quite a bit done on hat-core ñ hopefully I can produce some slightly more readable code than the previous version.

Bob