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CherryOS is a G4 emulator. It claims to allow Windows users to run MacOS X Panther in a virtual machine.

Is this thing real?

Curiously, the screenshots link from the site’s homepage results in a .NET error, indicating that maybe the CherryOS people should have hosted their website on Apache, e.g. running in emulation in a G4 VM on that Windows box.

[news seen at Macintouch, from where it will spread rapidly, if it’s true]

Update: turns out there’s already an open-source solution for running OS X under both Linux and Windows: PearPC. This tends to indicate that the CherryOS is real, at least in the sense that it is possible to emulate PowerPC hardware well enough on an x86 to fool OS X. [Thanks to Sam B. for the tip!]

Update: looks like CherryOS is a scam after all. Macintouch and Slashdot readers cut through the hype. As of this writing, the entire CherryOS site is reporting errors.

I just sold my motorcycle, disproving the adage “There are only two kinds of riders: those who have fallen, and those who will fall.” I rode for 10 years without falling.

No, that time I forgot to put the side stand down doesn’t count; I caught the bike with my ankle just before it hit the sidewalk.

My optometrist just apologized to me for the environmental damage he’s doing by wearing disposable contact lenses.

In a 2002 interview, President George W. Bush remarked, “I do not need to explain why I say things.”

But we’ve uncovered the reason anyway: he says things because the voices tell him to!

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Earlier this year I wrote a song called “Ode to Soup.” Although the song was far from complete, I published an early demo version on this site because I thought it would be interesting to hear the song mature over time. The final version will be recorded during Thanksgiving week, and posted here in December, unless rather than maturing it becomes stuck in that awkward pimply stage of adolescence in which case it will spend a few years working at the car wash to develop character.

Anyway, my juvenile demo recording has recently returned from a summer in southern California, where it acquired a great loopy fretless bass line thanks to my 6-fingered friend Andrew.

Ode To Soup demo II (October, 2004) (Copyright © 2004 matthew mcglynn.)

From here, the song flies to Cincinnati so my guitarist friend Steve can compose a guitar solo in 15/4.

Meanwhile I’ll be re-tracking the drums with my acoustic kit, and probably re-tracking the dulcimer too, with better microphones and my whizzy new deck.