ISSN 1496-3221
January 21, 2003
This is how my mom is beginning to talk to us. Stringing a few small words together in order to place a thought. To be a part of the conversation. These kinds of short phrases are coming easier and easier every day. The words that follow are the ones getting stuck somewhere between her being … More
January 19, 2003
Say you were a Unix user. One of the most common tools you would be familiar with would be cron. Cron being about as command line as you can get. Say you were a Mac OS X user. Except for a minority of us, you’d probably be more familiar with the GUI on top of … More
January 19, 2003
Those two words have been treated like a mantra by me and my fellow worker bees for years. My good friend Brad repeated the phrase “Underpromise and overdeliver…” at staff meetings, company overviews, off-site strategy get-togethers and the like. We all believed in it. We still do. I’ve always understood it to be a pledge … More
January 19, 2003
It’s been more than a couple of months since the Newtons Around The World gallery was updated, but I finally got my furry butt in gear to do it. The gallery is now sporting over 60 assorted images of — you guessed it — Newtons around the world. Who would of thought? Please give up … More
January 17, 2003
Angular building at sunrise. 11th Street Southeast, Calgary.
January 15, 2003
If you happened to notice that this site (or any of the others I happen to host out of the rack beside the washing machine in my basement) was a bit tardy serving pages over the past few days, you weren’t alone. It seems that my ADSL modem had decided to throttle down on the … More
January 14, 2003
How can you tell when someone’s been hanging around other designers, thumbing through reams of stock photography books and browsing thousands of online search results to find nothing but perfect full-page images for some project? When it comes time to post the available domain name of the week and it turns out to be killerheroes.com … More
January 14, 2003
You can personally thank my dear friend Rob for this picture. He’s the young pup in the foreground whose pants you fortunately can’t see. I imagine you’ve already deduced who’s wearing the stripes centre stage. I’m not sure who the heck the other guy is. Golly, weren’t the early seventies a wonderful time for children’s … More
January 14, 2003
I was beginning to wonder how long it would take for someone to start skinning the Safari browser. I need wait no more. Waterfall Software has released the first version of their SafariMasks navigation button replacement utility. The funniest part of this whole thing is not the fact that people want to continuously tinker with … More
January 14, 2003
Apparently the new 2.9 preview version of iCab is much faster due to changes in the cache management and other internalities. While this may not seem too exciting on the surface, the iCab news page hints at these changes laying the groundwork for even more significant revisions to the code for version 3.0, including “better … More