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I was rereading the essay “The Other Road Ahead” from “Hackers & Painters” and I was quite surprised by the following note (it’s number 14):

If the Mac was so great, why did it lose? Cost, again. Microsoft concentrated on the software business and unleashed a swarm of cheap component suppliers on Apple hardware. It did not help, either that suits took over during a critical period. (And it hasn’t lost yet. If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.)

This was back in 2004, mind you! And Apple announced iPhone in January 2007. “The Other Road Ahead” was originally published in September 2001, and is missing the part between the parentheses, but it turned out that Apple announced iPod one month later.

Most impressive.

Finally the book arrived and it looks very promising. I read a few pages already and I like the style. I also found GTDInbox, which is a Firefox extension, that integrates GTD methodology with GMail.

Six innocent people are sentenced to dead in Libya! The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor are accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus and the death sentence was recently reconfirmed by the Libyan high court.

There are multiple proofs by independent experts that these children were already infected before our medics start working there, but these were dismissed in favor of confessions obtained by torture.

I’m supporting this (and others) campaigns for whatever good they bring.