On your Mac you need to enable Port 3689 TCP to get access… For our next trick we’ll be figuring out how to tell iTunes we’ve moved across the Atlantic and would very much like access to the US store rather than the UK one…
I watched with interest a program recently on Channel Four in the UK entitled ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, in contrast to Al Gore’s ‘An inconvenient truth’ its focus (as you’ll guess from the title), was strongly sided with those skeptical of human involvement in climate change.
As the program seemed one sided in its portrayal of the subject I set out to see if I could find something to balance the equation and came across this:
http://climatedenial.org/2007/03/09/the-great-channel-four-swindle/
Make your own mind up. But you better do it soon.
We’re moving to the coolest city on earth in a month or so and for those of you that know San Francisco, you’ll not have failed to notice the abundance of the Toyota Prius. San Francisco (although it has its set of problems like anywhere)is a right on town with big support for the environment and congestion issues and while I’m afraid to say that I support George Monbiots rather pessimistic view of global climate change (that it’ll take more than personal recycling and diesel hybrid electric cars to save a radical negative change in the way that humans live on this planet in the next 50 years), the Toyota Prius is a cool car.
Top Gear have it in the cool section on their cool wall along with the Lamborghini Gallardo and Mini Cooper S.
The Prius does about 60 miles to the gallon, puts out about one ton less Co2 per year than similar models and does 060mph in about 11 secs. There’s even talk that the next generation will do somewhere between 90 and 113 MPG!
There’s all sorts of arguments about the dust to dust cost of the Prius but if Steve Jobs had built an iCar, I think this would be it.