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New and unimproved

Macromedia Central is looking

interesting. Flash is still, well, Flash, but still. The blog reader is quite impressive, it does what LJ-friends page does,

but in an application.

Cisco

Network Admission Control also looks interesting - but what about OS' that don't have a need for Anti-Virus

control? It looks to me like a way to lock out non-microsoft computers. Though I'd expect Cisco to support more

environments than that, "Cisco Network Admission Control systems will initially support endpoints running Microsoft

Windows NT, XP and 2000 operating systems". Oh well.

Does anyone else, in NZ or otherwise aware of the

RugbyWorldCup, find the arguments that "the reason we didn't win the cup

is because we are teach everyone that winning is not important" rather hypercritical? I was thinking about it yesterday,

and really, if winning wasn't important, would we actually be making such a fuss when they have one quite a few games, but

just not the tournament? Maybe it's just me.

href="http://homepage.mac.com/azc/iConquer/index.html">iConquer looks interesting - I might download it and give it a

play while I'm in Auckland next. The NZ Dollar is doing quite well as I speak (at the expense of the

href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/11/19/dollar.euro/">US Dollar - as it is doing poorly against the Euro as

well), so it might be worth buying it now.

While watching some TV coverage right now, I found it really

interesting that: they're all mostly talking about

href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/19/britain.bush/">Bush's visit to the UK, but only

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/">the BBCWorld News is focussing on

href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/19/palace.security/">'palace security'. Apparantly this is also

the first official state visit by an

american president.

Hmm, by the advice of the guy on TV, I'm going to go get some sleep. While I've

slightly deviated from the usual boring life excerpts, and deviated even more with the Bush coverage, it's what I'm

looking at right now, so you never know, I might want to look at it again in the future.

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Published: November 20, 2003 01:11 AM.

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