ISSN 1496-3221
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
March 5, 2003
I spoke with my dad today about my mom. He had a conversation with the doctor earlier this week discussing her recovery. The doctor related that my mom wasn’t making as much progress as she had expected. Physically, mom is doing well and is expected to be able walk out of the hospital at some … More
March 3, 2003
Wipe that smirk off your face, PerversionTracker is not what you think it is. In fact, this site scours the web for the cream of poorly implemented and amazingly useless Mac software crop — and then reports back to you, the hapless user. All software reviews should be this scathing — and honest. Makes a … More
March 2, 2003
Up late on a Sunday night, working on getting the latest site updates posted to the Veer server. Say, let’s go check my own site’s stats while I’ve got a minute to spare. Crap, can’t hit the server tonight. Come to think of it, somebody sent me an email earlier this evening saying that the … More
February 25, 2003
The available domain name of the week is cognisentient.com