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January 13, 2003
Did I mention that my Newton web server won its category in the annual Newtie Awards? I didn’t think so. I even took it upon myself to design some cute little web buttons to go along with this years festivities. Oh, it’s a joy just to be nominated. I hope it doesn’t all go to … More
January 12, 2003
The ladies of the house use my seven year old Power Macintosh 8500. It’s not a bad machine, just an older, crankier one. In fact, it’s been a veritable workhorse since it arrived along with my cable modem back in December of 1995. It’s been upgraded with not quite a quarter megabyte of RAM, a … More
January 9, 2003
Lettering on stairwell door. 5th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.
January 9, 2003
Hot on the heels of Apple’s new browser, good old Waferbaby slapped together a quick little hack that will convert your Chimera bookmarks to a format that Safari can digest easily. And on a slightly belated note, my other geeky Australian friend Toby Thain released his Windows icon (ICO) file format plug-in for Photoshop the … More
January 9, 2003
Playing with Safari? You might be interested in following along on Dave Hyatt’s Surfin’ Safari weblog. Dave is a member of the Safari development team at Apple and has been offering updates on bug fixes as well as responses to comments regarding Safari posted on other high profile weblogs such as Meyerweb and diveintomark. Some … More
January 7, 2003
“If a client ask[s] for a logo with swirly thing, tell them that it’s been done to death.” Even though it hasn’t been updated in ages and several of the featured companies have either rebranded, managed to grab a clue, or simply dissipated into the ethereal mist, the spiral logo critique still merits a mention … More
January 6, 2003
My mom was moved out of the intensive care unit a couple of days ago. I wasn’t sure we were going to see that happen for quite a while yet. Amazingly enough, it happened. When I visited her this afternoon, I also discovered that she is no longer constantly monitored for things like heart capacity, … More
January 6, 2003
You’re not going to believe this. In fact, I scarcely believe it myself. I just composed and formatted this weblog entry in the Notepad on my Newton and then posted it directly through Blogger using a native blogging client. How the heck did I manage this? Using a little something called nBlog, that’s how. The … More
January 5, 2003
Walking the dog. Near Carburn Park, Calgary.
January 2, 2003
Some people give me the gears when I tell them I play MP3s and listen to streams on my Newton using Mad Max. Some simply shake their heads. Others spit and shuffle and then move on. For those of you who can actually fathom the reasons I enjoy using old technology to do new things, … More