Nice Steve Jobs interview: "The place where Apple has been standing for the last two decades is exactly where computer technology and the consumer electronics markets are converging".

This is coincidentally how I've long felt about my career: working on the web from 95-2000 and in mobile ever since, I've been fortunate enough to spend my time at the place where technology is meeting and merging with society.

God that sounds pretentious.

Stealth haptics in Powerbooks: "Apple added a feature called Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) to the PowerBook line i early 2005. The sensor attempts to prevent data loss by parking the heads of an activ disk drive after detecting a "sudden motion", which could be due to strong vibrations o a fall"

For various reasons, I anticipate that I shall be rather quiet for the next 4-6 weeks: work is about to step up a gear or three, and this will necessitate cutting back on not-work... So before that, a few links that have accumulated:

• Synotunes "synchronizes your iTunes libraries"
• History of the handheld: Nintendos from the Game&Watch to the DS
• Take a look at this wonderful augmented reality video
• Robotic arm-wrestling!
• ShuffleArt - customise your iPod Shuffle
• Another Will Wright interview
• The Physics of Hype
• iFolder has released a Mac client at last - this looks really interesting for all sorts of stuff.
• Legalising TV torrents. Ahem - is it me, or do other people find BitTorrent easier than programming a video to record?
• Nisus Thesaurus

So the BPI are not only suing people who don't know about or use filesharing, they seem quite proud of the fact too: "We are going to continue bringing cases against people who distribute music illegally"... that'll be the children, and the parents that "harbour" them, eh?

How should concerned parents react to this? Well, anyone who doesn't have time to educate themselves about internet usage or the ability to completely control their childrens behaviour should presumably avoid getting any sort of broadband, or face the threat of getting sued by the BPI. And despite what the BPI are saying, this isn't about "major filesharers" or "large-scale uploaders" - it's about individuals who happen to have 150 albums in their digital music collection. That doesn't seem very much to me: about 1.5GB isn't it? Maybe we should call for stop-and searches of anyone owning a digital music play of over 5GB capacity, to really crack down on these evil terrorist-supporting thieves?

And all this at a time when "UK album sales have bucked the global trend by continuing to rise, adding to the debate over whether individuals illegally sharing songs online are detrimental to the industry". I wonder how much sympathy or loyalty UK consumers will have for the music industry as increasingly difficult-to-track or control methods of filesharing emerge over the next few years?

Self-defense: defense against oneself: "He asked, what were the chances we would be attacked by a trained karate person? Pretty slim to none. So, he continued, what were the biggest threats to our life, property, and liberty? I answered all three questions the same way. The biggest threat to my life, liberty, and property was my own stupidity."