index.html Journal Index file Using Xemacs with Zoom under MacOS X I am editing this XML file under MacOS X with emacs with zoom set to that the client fills the whole zoomed area. This solves the problem of focus as the entire workarea of the text editor's pane is always visible and I don't have to worry about the mouse, the zoomed area doesn't scroll until I move the mouse to the edge of the zoomed area. If I want to zoom to a higher magnification I can change the size of the widget and then zoom to the smaller area until it just fits. Apple iPhone I got to get hands-on with the iPhone just released by Apple. I saw it at the Apple Stare on University Ave. in Palo Alto. It is about the size of a cell phone but it has only one small button and is mostly a touch screen. The Interface is very intuitive; I was able to figure it out in moments and the display is very sharp. The most wonderful thing about it is that you can zoom nearly anything on the screen. First, it has an accelerometer that is able to tell which direction the device is turned, setting landscape or portrait mode. It has safari builtin and ready for the entire Internet, not just mobile pages. One can zoom any web page so that its contents can be easily read with sharp rendering at any magnification. This is a boon to a low vision person like me. I found that the crispness of the display made it comfortable to use even without zoom. I do not think that all of the pages are zoomable, but they might be. Big fire in Palo Alto On Sunday last I went with my son Matthew and his girlfriend, Sequoia, to downtown Palo Alto. We stopped in at the University Cafe west of the intersection of University Ave and Bryant Street. I had just speculated to Sequioa that a bench of concrete in the wall now open to the roof with skylights might have once had a second floor or a balcony and might have burned out before the current cafe was there. I can recall that the old buildings of this district were prone to fire, indeed where the Apple Store has been was a music store that burned several years ago, in 1999, I think. Just then we all heard fire trucks and in time realized that the building at the opposite corner of the intersection was ablaze, where a Wallgrene's and a Subway Sandwich Shop were. We went outside and watched as the firefighters worked the fire which got worse involving the roof and second floor with flames by the time we left. Later, I learned from newscasts that the fire burnt the second floor and roof making the building unsafe to enter and that the fire was suspicious. I went down there today to have a look. The screets ajacent to the building were closed including two blocks of University, normally a busy street. One could see sky through the broken out windows and the police said that the building's exterior walls are in danger of collapse.