This is splorp.

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

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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

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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

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October 8, 2003

Photo of the day.

 Electrical transformer and mountain ash berries. Granville Island, Vancouver.

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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

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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

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October 7, 2003

Girl guidance.

Once every year or so, I get asked by one of the local Girl Guide units to come in and talk shop. More specifically, I chat about computers, how they work, and what they get used for. My techno-blabbering in meant to help fulfill part of the requirements for their Computer Skills badge. Out of … More

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October 4, 2003

Fixing the dog.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite happy actually. But there are these dozens of niggly little annoyances that I’ve discovered whilst traversing the gap between OS 9 and OS X. Most of them I can deal with. It’s usually just a matter of changing the way a certain navigational action or keyboard command is performed. … More

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September 22, 2003

Nothing.

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September 22, 2003

Time to kick some ass.

I wasn’t trying to be rude. I meant ass in the AppleScript Studio sense — not what might also be referred to as the tuchus. It’s time to move forward, beyond the three-button answer dialog. I’ve decided that I’m at the point where I can slide right past simply tinkering with AppleScript, trying to replicate … More

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