October 16, 2003
Available domain name of the week.
With a tip of the noggin’ topper to Jason Perkins and his handy-dandy RSS feed, the available domain name of the week just happens to be stinter.com
Archive: October, 2003
October 15, 2003
Unexpected clarification fix.
I love it when software vendors actually manage to label an updater or patch so that you can tell what the heck it does by simply looking at the file name. So, what do you do? You say you fix an error where InDesign version 2.0.2 unexpectedly quits? And what’s your name? Ah. Why, thank … More
October 15, 2003
More connections, less applications.
Hey smart people, I need your help. I am looking for answers to two relatively minor OS X issues. First of all, does anyone know of a way to increase the number of concurrent connections in Safari? More often than not I am finding that the default number of four is a bit limiting. The … More
October 14, 2003
Here’s looking up your old address.
Jason Perkins just made my life easier. Maybe too easy. He’s just released an experimental RSS feed of recently expired single word domain names. How cool is that? Well, it might just make the dot-compound domain passé. Single, simple words kick it. And it’s well known that the regularity of my domain name of the … More
October 14, 2003
It was the dog’s fault.
It wasn’t that long after midnight on Friday that we heard the dog get up. He shook himself vigorously, jingling his pair of dog tags (which in the middle of the night, quite frankly sound like several dozen pieces of cutlery thrashing around in a tumble dryer), and then proceeded to galoomp down the stairs … More
October 9, 2003
eDoppelgänger?
It was probably a presumptuous notion, but I believed I was still the only person hanging about online using the splorp moniker. Well, I was wrong. I assure you that this is not me. For one, I don’t post to slashdot. Secondly, I’m damn sure never to have a section of my site dedicated to … More
October 8, 2003
Photo of the day.
Electrical transformer and mountain ash berries. Granville Island, Vancouver.
October 8, 2003
Proactive cures for future pains in the ass.
Good old Apple is on top of things, by golly. They have kindly published a series of developer articles (an overview, practical code samples and a FAQ) to help web developers make sure that sites with embedded content (QuickTime or otherwise) will still work as intended after Microsoft modifies Windows Internet Explorer next year. I … More
October 7, 2003
Sometimes these things just write themselves.
The available domain name of the week is shakydog.com
October 7, 2003
Shaking all rover.
This week we confirmed that Indigo, our Whippet-shaped hound, has mild canine epilepsy. Last week, my wife noticed that Indy was sitting on the floor in our home office shaking his head, almost as if he was shivering. Visually, it looked like a simple muscle spasm, but it lasted several minutes. She ran him over … More