ISSN 1496-3221
March 19, 2003
Visitors have often mentioned that they’d like to see a comments system on my site (especially this guy). The various methods of communicating this request have run the gamut from meek asides to adamant insistence. I’ve always regarded the ability to leave comments as nice thing to have, but not something that had to exist … More
March 17, 2003
The available domain name of the week is speakspoke.com in case you were wondering. Can you tell how much thinkthought I put into this? Apparently not quite enough.
March 17, 2003
Treadmarks in frozen slush. Heritage Drive Southeast, Calgary.
March 14, 2003
Was I asleep at the helm or just too busy navigating the channel to notice? Either way, I managed to miss both the release of Mozilla 1.3 and BBEdit 7.0.3 earlier this week. I’ll just mention them both here for the benefit for those who were napping along with me. Getting back to Mozilla for … More
March 13, 2003
User interfaces aren’t just about accessibility, easily identifiable content areas and the ability to complete tasks in as few steps as possible. They’re also all about taste, texture and flavour, baby. Baring that in mind, the available domain name of the week is chunkygui.com By the way, I forgot to post the previous week’s domain name … More
March 11, 2003
A good thing is finding out that your site experienced record visitors and page views yesterday. A not so good thing is determining that the bulk of the page view increase was due to a triplet of Google’s unmanned page scrapers hammering your site quite a bit more than is generally acceptable. A good thing … More
March 7, 2003
A new version of Camino (nee: Chimera) was released yesterday. Even though this little bit of news has probably made it’s way through the bulk of the choice weblogs and various reporting outlets, I feel obliged to mention it again. Why? Because the huge list of improvements, tweaks, and other sundry twiddles found in the … More
March 6, 2003
Parkade ramp with sodium vapor sconce. 5th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.
March 6, 2003
I hope you’ll excuse the short spell of downtime earlier this evening. It was absolutely necessary, I assure you. I had put off replacing the toasted backup drive in this server for far too long and I figured that the seething masses could survive without a half hour or so of splorp and company. The … More
March 5, 2003
You know what I like about security patches? I like the fact that they always work the first time you apply them. I like the fact that they always explain in precise, human-readable detail exactly what will be modified once they’re applied. I like the fact that they never have any obscure software dependencies and … More