MID-WEST SIDE

INDIANAPOLIS -- I've been hanging out in Indy all week. Went to see an Indians minor league game the other night. It got me thinking that perhaps San Jose really would be better served by building the San Jose Giants a nice downtown ballpark rather than spend so much effort trying to lure a major league team. Just sayin'.

Also, the other day T-Ball and I had half a dozen beers and two appetizers downtown for twenty bucks. Just sayin'.


ANOTHER POST ABOUT THE POST: Back on the Deep Throat bidness, I guess I had it right when I said that I thought Woodward may not have believed that Felt was coherent enough to release him from their confidentiality agreement:

WOODWARD: It was a number of years ago I talked to him and it was clear to me that he -- and this was the reluctance we had -- that he has dementia, and he -- his memory is often non-existent on critical matters.

Ben Bradlee was slightly more blunt: "The guy has not got all his marbles."

And while we're on Bradlee, he also had a great quote about government officials that try to tell him a story is going to threaten National Security: "I spent almost four years on a destroyer in the Pacific ocean during World War II and it makes my blood boil when some guy who maybe ran an insurance company in the Midwest becomes an assistant secretary of this or that and tells me about national security."


TURNS OUT THE G6 PROCESSOR IS A PENTIUM: It came out this week that by then end of 2007, all Macintosh computers will be running on Intel microchips. That rumor has been around for about, oh, a dozen years... so I guess if you wait long enough anything can happen. If you need me, I'll be down at the Cingular store looking for a MacOS-based smart-phone.

Meanwhile, I'm throwing out an Arrested Development-style "C'mon!" to The New York Times, which writes that when Steve Jobs "sold Next to Apple in 1997 and then returned to the company to lead its resurgence, he moved the operating system to the PowerPC." An interesting assertion, considering the first PowerPC-based Macs were introduced in 1994. Before Jobs returned to the company. C'mon!

And back in California, our story in the Merc noted that analysts are saying that the Intel switch will make it "effortless" for someone to switch from Windows to a Mac. That sounds a bit overblown to me. If you put me in the driver's seat of a Pontiac, but tell me the engine is the same as in my VW, I still don't know where the windshield wipers are.


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