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December 6, 2002
This is an actual signature found at the end of an actual message that I actually received today. Bulletproof and bilingual. What more could you possibly ask for in an email transmission and any accompanying attachment? ———– IMPORTANT NOTICE — AVIS IMPORTANT ————–Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. Recipientshould check this email and any … More
December 4, 2002
While my serial cable was tangled in knots. Yes, it’s that time of the year again and wouldn’t you know it, the December update of the Newton FAQ has just slid down the chimney.
December 4, 2002
Service station signage. Southeast Calgary.
December 3, 2002
The humble little startup I work for and enjoy immensely, is currently scrumming for one of the positions in the annual Fast Company Fast 50. As is with the rest of the entries, we have our own tale to tell and vision to share. Hopefully, if enough other people pause to consider our story, we … More
December 3, 2002
That’s it. Fontographer is dead. Done. Buried. Toast. And FontLab, that wiseacre kid with the intercap haircut, killed it. Finally. The Mac version of this current, supported, stupidly powerful typeface creation tool just started shipping and there is absolutely no reason not to plunk down your $200 measly US dollars, punch in your geriatric Fontographer … More
December 3, 2002
BloggerControl is a new kid on Pyra’s block specifically for users of Blogger Pro and Blog Spot Plus. Great. Wonderful. It’s about time. I love it. So when did this happen? Does it actually work? Has anyone used this mechanism to report problems and get feedback since it appeared? It’s got to be better than … More
December 3, 2002
And now you see it again. Mozilla 1.2.1 hit the shelves late yesterday and fixes a DHTML-related bug found in version 1.2 last week. As usual, the release notes are awaiting your inspection.
December 2, 2002
I’m not sure which is more revealing of the current state of the whole InDesign vs. XPress tug o’ war, this article over at MacCentral concerning Adobe and Quark scrimmaging for both mindshare and workflowshare, or the vociferous pissing match taking place in the MacCentral discussions. Oh yeah? Yeah!
December 2, 2002
Following a fairly common web development practice, we work with duplicated HTTP and FTP instances set up on a co-located server. One instance is our staging environment and one is the production or live environment. Today, I can’t transfer any binary files to the staging server if those files are larger than 16KB or if … More
December 2, 2002
Why, it’s a cut of leftover herb-roasted pork, a dollop of home-made jalepeño mustard, sliced button mushrooms and Cheez Whiz® on a bagel, of course. Thanks for asking.