Apple’s New Product Pages

Pierre Igot:

Apple also seems to have adopted a new design for its product pages on its web site. And it’s a bit scary.…If, instead of a simple click on the link, you control-click (or right-click) on one of these links and select “Open Link in New Tab” or “Open Link in New Window” in the contextual menu, Safari actually loads… the product page for Keynote 3 in a new tab/window!

The navigation on Apple’s newer pages has frustrated me, too, as have the numerous QuickTime movies, excessive page widths, puny page heights, and gray body text.

CD-R Life Spans

I’ve read a bunch of articles like this and never quite know what to make of them. Probably I should copy my archive CDs and DVDs now and then, but I have discs going back nine years or so, and the checksums still verify. (I never burn raw files to disc; they’re always packed into a disk image so that I can verify that the data is OK.)