The MacBook is out today. It’s a bit more than an iBook replacement; for Apple laptop fans this single detail from the tech specs page says that loud and clear:

Extended desktop and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 1920 x 1200 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors.

Finally! Goodbye, unauthorized hacks.

At 5.2 pounds it’s about the same weight as the old Titanium.

This week at work we’ve been dealing with a hellish situation: our colocation provider (who will for now go unnamed) wiped out the live backup of one of our drives – then overwrote the drive with a seven-day-old tape backup. Nice going, guys! So now I’m digging through my “stashed-this-away-just-in-case” backups for missing data from the past week.

We’re switching to JohnCompanies.com for hosting – I’ve been using them for nearly three years for my own stuff (including this site), quite happily.

…is, according to Technorati, Chinese. And likely will be forevermore.

I got an e-mail from Steve Cook today.

For a couple years now I’ve been using a great little utility Steve wrote called Jumpcut. It’s what I call a “clipboard stack” – it records multiple cuts/copies and allows you to paste them back out in whatever sequence you wish. And it does all this without requiring you to use the mouse – essential.

(I was led to Jumpcut by a comment on this post of mine from June 2004. Thank you, “sal paradise,” whoever you are…)

So the other day I downloaded a talk from Google Video for offline viewing/listening. (It’s by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the lead developers of Django.)

I have a Mac, and Macs are great at video and stuff! Not like those dumb old Windows computers!

Hm.