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Wednesday, April 09, 2003

More war links. I haven't managed to get over to Command Post for a few days. For some reason it still freezes my IE, and my Netscape randomly crashes. All this in OS 9.2.2. I'm fine in OSX, but I hate the interface so much I have resisted porting everything over there. Mainly, I hate the system font. It's fuzzy and often whatever app you are in uses it, and it's too large and makes some tasks cumbersome. I come back to OS9 and all the type on my screen is so sharp I can use much smaller type sizes.

Can any of you Mac heads tell me if they fixed this in Jaguar? Or are there any hacks out there to put a mostly OS9 lookandfeel interface on top of OSX? I browsed around the popular download sites but didn't see anything. Also, I've had this piece of shareware forever that lets me assign a key to be a Forward Delete key (which Apple in its infinite wisdom decided its customers didn't need as an integral part of the keyboard). I use my FD key all the time and I haven't found an OSX way to do this. Any tips would be appreciated.

Anyway, here's a UK Sun reporter posing (fully clothed) on Saddam's gold-plated toilet. Residents took revenge on Saddam's torture chambers, destroying a lot of evidence, but hopefully not all of it. It's hard going for aid workers in the midst of a post-war breakdown of law and order.

The last 2 paragraphs of this story are interesting.
Bush said that despite Britain's desire to move more quickly on the "road map" detailing steps towards peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this will not be published until the Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas "finally (puts) his cabinet in place." There were reports Tuesday that Abbas was threatening Tuesday to resign, however, as he is facing opposition from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) in trying to form a government.
Once again, the Bush MO in action.