Canadian Dollar at par…

The Canadian dollar is now worth roughly 1 USD. I think that’s the first time in my life, and certainly the first time I remember…

Leopard is looking really good, particularly the improvements in Mail.app. Will it be improved enough to make me ditch Thunderbird? If it still stores mail in a proprietary pain-in-the-ass format, then no. But if all the new bells and whistles work with IMAP and nothing stored locally, I’m there, man.

And of course, it’s about damn time they got around to virtual desktops. Looks like they did it pretty well, with a good-looking couple of pager options.

The University of Colorado at Boulder forbids concealed firearms on campus. CU Police Department Commander Brad Wiesley says switching that policy could decrease safety on campus.

“There’s no standard way to identify the good guys versus the bad guys in the middle of an active shooting situation. It tremendously complicates the response for officers responding,” said Wiesley.

On the mental health front, the National Alliance on Mental Health says there are alternatives to institutionalizing more people.

“The U.S. Surgeon General has reported that the likelihood of violence by people with mental illness is low … More often, people living with mental illness are the victims of violence,” states NAMI in a press release that went out after the Virginia Tech shootings.

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So, the iPhone is coming out on June 29th. Tempting as it is in terms of new-toy fun, I can’t think of any compelling reasons to actually own one at this point.