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Archive: October, 2001

October 18, 2001

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Hey, it’s only 7:00 pm. Of course I’m brewing a fresh pot of coffee. Paradiso Dark Swiss Water Decaf, as a matter of fact. Full bodied and tranquil, yet vital. Sort of like me. Gak.

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October 18, 2001

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What was up today you ask? How about an extended stint beta testing a VNC client on my Newton. Well, I guess you can’t beta test a piece of software that’s technical an alpha release, but that’s beside the point. And how geeky is that point? Let me illustrate with this screen dump. Oh yeah, … More

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October 17, 2001

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Sing praise to the higher being of your choice. Just when I needed something to take my mind off biologically worrisome current events, the fine folks over at Bare Bones Software had the good sense to release BBEdit 6.5, which among other things, finally adds integrated support for Cascading Style Sheets. Hot damn, I’m a … More

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October 15, 2001

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Top, right, bottom, left. Top, right, bottom, left. Top, right, bottom, left.

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October 15, 2001

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I think my previous employer is finally getting the hang of all this information technology. Through the magic of mail forwarding, I received the following automatonic note from their next-to-useless intranet server: Subject: Please update your oneplace profileDate: 10/10/2001 01:37 PMFrom: email hidden; JavaScript is required: Grant Hutchinson, email hidden; JavaScript is required Hello Grant, This email … More

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October 14, 2001

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Thanks, Howie.

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October 14, 2001

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Oh, in case you missed it, Mozilla 0.9.5 was released on Friday. Get it here.

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October 14, 2001

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Brent Simmons, one of the worker bees over at Userland, has started a weblog specifically geared toward Mac OS scripting concerns and news. This is particularly timely given the recent improvements to XML-RPC and SOAP protocol support in Mac OS X 10.1 and the availability of jiggy little AppleScript nuggets such as Tim Conner’s BlogScript. … More

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October 12, 2001

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I had a great day going until just before supper time. Now it feels as if someone is banging on my stomach from the inside. I think a humdinger of a flu bug has taken up residence. Yuck. [ Update ] It appears what I have is not a flu bug, but more likely something … More

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October 12, 2001

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As if redesigning an entire web site wasn’t enough to crow about on a Friday afternoon. Today marks the six month anniversary of my quitting my previous job. Six months. Incredible. Based on this milestone, I would appreciate everyone noticing that I did manage to get something accomplished after all. (See previous post.) There should … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.