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This year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs are the best in memory. Actually enforcing the rules may have some old-timers peeved, but I much prefer letting the skilled players skate unencumbered. Great end-to-end action in all the games I’ve seen.

I don’t know much about the Carolina franchise, but I know Edmonton. Edmonton is a town that deserves another Stanley Cup. They support their team through thick and thin and as a community saved it from the brink of financial disaster.

Oilers in Seven!

If all of the new MacBooks do this, Apple’s in for a big recall. Or maybe the guy just likes turmeric.

I’m a music fan, and I like any kind of music as long as it is done well. When I’m in the mood for metal I often reach for Faith No More’s Angel Dust. 14 highly creative, interesting tracks. If you are young and like the Chili Peppers, FNM is the other band who blended metal, rap and funk in the late eighties and early nineties. More metal, less rap and definitely more wierd. The other FNM record worth owning is The Real Thing, which contains the big hit Epic.

There are better tracks on Angel Dust, but this one is remarkable in that it showcases the truly brilliant Mike Patton taking years off his vocal career in the service of one song. It is actually very hard to not feel a twinge of empathy for him as he hits the most painful notes. Parental guidance is advised for this one.

I just upgraded my main work Mac from a 667Mhz G4 PowerBook to a 2Ghz MacBook Pro. I find it to be three to four times as responsive in UI behaviours like scrolling, cutting and pasting, window switching, etc. This alone will make me far more productive on an ongoing basis as I have already caught up to the new machine. Processor-intensive applications are just off the chart comparativelty speaking. The cumulative time savings will be enormous, since I am working on my Mac sometimes up to 18hrs/day.

If you are holding off on upgrading to a new Mac, don’t. Do it now and it will pay dividends immediately.

I have taken the extreme step of refusing to install any Microcruft apps at all. I’ll have to learn Pages, which looks familiar, and things are going well so far with the switch to Mail, Address Book and iCal. Good riddance. Now, c’mon Adobe, how about some Universal Binaries?

William Petersen?

At a news conference earlier in the day, a CSIS official said a series of terrorist attacks plotted against unspecified targets in southern Ontario were “inspired by Al Qaeda,� adding that the ring of suspects arrested posed a “real and serious� threat.

I dunno. CSIS…CSI…sounds supicious to me.