Archive for August 10th, 2004

How To Keep Up With The Latest Happings On Scatmania (or What Are All Those Pretty Buttons?)

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

If you’re looking for a way to keep up-do-date with the latest Scatmania happenings, it’s now really really easy. I’ve enhanced my weblog with a heap of useful syndication tools that make keeping track of my latest activities a doddle, even for those of you who are unenlightened and can still be caught using an awful choice of web browser.

You may have noticed that at the bottom of the Scatmania menu there’s a series of buttons that looks a little bit like this:

Scatmania.org's syndication buttons and 'For Geeks' section

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1984 Revisited: What If Apple Took The ‘Microsoft Route’

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Daring Fireball has an article about “Apple vs. Microsoft” with a difference. Contrary to many, he argues that if Apple had taken the ‘Microsoft route’ in 1984, with their hardware and software (significantly superior to IBM-PC platforms running Microsoft software), by licensing the platform, they wouldn’t necessarily be the market leader today. It’s a well-written and compelling article, and if you’ve any interest in OS politics or parallel universes, it’s worth a look.

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