January 2002

Car Stories

January 30, 2002

I have never yet driven in Europe. We moved to Italy when our daughter was 15 months old. During a trip around the US when she was 3 or 4, we talked about what we would do on the next leg of the trip, when we got to California: “We’ll rent a car at the [...]

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Ringing in the Euro

January 21, 2002

So now the euro, as a currency we can use at the cash register, is three weeks old, and we’ve all had time to get used to it. The changeover really hasn’t gone badly, even in famously disorganized Italy. There were long lines at highway tollbooths and banks the first week (the holiday peak travel [...]

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Copy Protection Wars

January 21, 2002

This is getting entertaining; check out this article from The Register. Another article mentions that: “White Lilies Island [Natalie Imbruglia's latest] uses Israeli technology company Midbar’s Cactus Data Shield to prevent the disc from being played in a PC CD-ROM drive. The encoding process systematically corrupts the music stored on the disc. A hi-fi CD player’s [...]

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