[MyAppleMenu] Dec 26, 2004

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Mac news for Mac people

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*** The Sunday Times Business Person Of 2004: Steve Jobs Swoops In As Mr iNcredible
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-1415496,00.html>
Paul Durman, The Times

It is not often that a company boss gets to bathe in the success of a product that is a smash hit with consumers. It is rarer still for that product to be genuinely important, transforming not just the company that designed it, but the face of an industry. It is even more remarkable for one chief executive to enjoy this level of success, not at one company, but at two quite different businesses in the same year. And to accomplish all this while undergoing treatment for cancer -- well, that's just incredible.

[News]

*** 'Year Of The iPod' Has Been Music To Apple Computer's Ears
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA122604.2R.themacguy.36e3d739.html>
Paul Vaughn, San Antonio Express-News

If 2003 was the "Year of the Laptop," 2004 was the "Year of the iPod," with Steve Jobs kicking off the year with the introduction of the iPod mini to complement the already highly desirable iPod lineup.

[Opinion]

*** iPod Revolution Is In Store For Music
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-letters26.4dec26,1,37941.story?coll=la-headlines-business>
David Holmes, Los Angeles Times

In fact, the current business model of the music industry itself has been made obsolete by the digital music format and the accompanying digital music players, such as the iPod.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Stranger Than Fiction
<http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=9474>
Blake de Pastino, City Paper

Morgan Rosenberg is the kind of man who speaks of himself in the third person, as if he were not real, and his life were a story so fantastic that only he could tell it. It doesn't take much time in his company to get the sense that this is indeed the case -- that Morgan Rosenberg does see himself as having an almost fictional quality, and that nearly every utterance he makes is, in fact, an effort to control the story.

*** Revealing The Soul Of A Soulless Lawyer
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/fashion/26BLOG.html?8hpib>
Sara Rimer, New York Times

He lives at the law firm, blowing off his wife's dinner parties, not to mention the birth of his son. He finds no satisfaction in his work, but he is trapped by his high salary and partner title. He is, in short, a petty, cynical, sexist, miserable, overpaid corporate creep. He is also fictional. But he is apparently all too familiar to thousands of lawyers across the country who are regular readers of his Web log, Anonymous Lawyer.

*** Baby's First Stop? A Taxi In Queens
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/nyregion/26baby.html?oref=login&ex=1261717200&>
Shaila K. Dewan, New York Times

The holidays have a way of turning simple sadness into tragedy, chance encounters into magic, and mere good luck into a miracle. That was the case on Christmas Eve in Elmhurst, Queens, when a cab driver called 911 to report that his passenger was giving birth and he did not know the way to the nearest hospital.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Feels Tremors From Massive Indonesia Earthquake
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/124071/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Tremors were felt in parts of Singapore early Sunday from a massive earthquake that struck Indoensia's Sumatra island.