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Dear Apple Customer,

Apple is pleased to report that a shipment for the following order
is on its way to you.
[...]
Product # Product Description Qty
__________ ______________________________ ____

Z0B707BWC MAC MINI/512/40G/CMD/OS-X/LL 1

Unfortunately, I think this means I won't get it until ~~Monday.~~Wednesday. Which is like two-business-day shipping, except for being four-business-day shipping. And clicking "refresh" repeatedly on the FedEx tracking page will not make it get here any faster.

I suspect a lot of people I know would enjoy this community:

techranting

Okay, they got me.

Mac mini 1.25GHz

Part Number: Z0B7

Accessory kit
512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 1 DIMM
56K v.92 Modem
Mac OS X - U.S. English
40GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo Drive

Estimated ship: 3-4 weeks
Delivered within 2 business days after shipping

Current Mood: drinking the Kool-aid

I have to admit that I've already thought about ordering a Mac mini. Given how freakin' slow store.apple.com is right now, I'm guessing I'm hardly alone.

Um. Footnote on the iPod shuffle page: "2. Do not eat iPod shuffle" Do they envision a big problem with that? *blink*

Fujitsu-Siemens to pay per-machine fee for piracy

Fujitsu-Siemens has been ordered by a German court to pay a levy every time one of its computers is sold in the country, as part of a "tax on piracy."

The judge ruled in December that because the company's PCs could be used for copying material--and denying rights holders their due royalties--Fujitsu-Siemens should make it up by way of a contribution of about $16 (12 euros) per machine.

When do we get to impose a tax on stupidity? Huh? Huh?

Current Music: Panjabi MC - Challa

Today is Setting Orange, day 8 in the season of The Aftermath, 3167.

There's something utterly annoying about an online course on how to design to Section 508 standards that has segments that break if you're using Netscape rather than IE. And somehow their feedback form, where they ask you to report anything that might help them improve accessibility, doesn't seem to work in Netscape either. Third time in the past week that I've run into sites where people who Really Should Know Better[tm] don't bother testing in anything other than IE 5.

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