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Just over a year ago we wondered if Garmin Hates Macs? and at the time, it seemed they did.

Has anything changed? Supposedly on January 10, 2006 they announced GPS Product Support for Mac OS X. Cool! Though they might want to update their FAQ, which says “Garmin does not support Macintosh computers at this time and does not have Macintosh software or connectors available” to match the above statement.

Honestly I don’t know what the Garmin statement means yet, I may have to ask the macmap Yahoo! Group to decipher it.

Update: See Garmin’s Mac Outpost in the Desert… and the Garmin Blog: Apple/Mac category.

I started toying around with Amazon S3, looking at the some of the code samples and just trying to get an idea of what I might be able to do with it…

Matt Croydon uses it to backup Flickr photos, and I’m sure others will come up with neat ideas, as well as working code do to some very cool things. Give them hackers some time, I think this will be big.

So far I’ve done little more than make some buckets, put files, and get files, but eventually I’ll probably dig into the Perl or PHP code a bit more and see what I can come up with. Thanks Amazon!

I finally got around to uploading all of the Buried songs from "Leaders, Machines, and Lies", and they are now at Ourmedia in the popular MP3 format.

You can also find them linked at milwaukeehardcore.net’s Buried page, which contains plenty of other info about Buried and the other bands of the time. What is milwaukeehardcore.net you ask? Well, it is…

…an attempt to document the Hardcore & Punk Rock scene that existed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and surrounding areas) during the 1980’s and 1990’s…

It’s also a wiki, so we’ve had a lot of people filling in the holes in our memories…

The Buried songs are all released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so you are free to do with them what you will within the confines of that license. (If you have other needs, please contact me.) Oh, one song is not licensed as such, but has a traditional copyright. Where Have All The Flowers Gone? was written by Pete Seeger, and the rights holder is Fall River Music, Inc. I’m 98% sure it’s ok to publish this song, based on what I’ve read at Ourmedia and elsewhere. (Buried has not existed for over 10 years and gains no value from this song being made available.) I will admit though, dealing with cover songs and traditional copyright is a pain…

It’s Day #1 with Mozilla Lightning, and so far, so good!

I’ve stopped using Sunbird on one of my computers and am now using Lightning with Thunderbird. The big news is, alarms work! They never did in Sunbird, and a crazy Perl hack with cron job was all that did alarms and alerts for me previously…

Don’t get me wrong, Lightning needs work, but I’m hoping it gets the attention it needs and keep getting better. I’d start with adding in all the features Sunbird has that Lightning doesn’t.

See Also: Mozilla Lightning

If you’ve followed this weblog for a long time you’ll know I’ve mentioned my experiences with Mozilla Calendar, or more accurately, Mozilla Sunbird. It’s good to see people interested in Lightning.

Lightning has a way to go, but it’s a good start. I’ll be testing it as a replacement for Sunbird, and I’ll let you know what I come across in the process… MozillaZine already has some good comments about Lightning.