ISSN 1496-3221
September 7, 2002
The achingly dry InfoWorld manages to nab a deliciously revealing quote from Windows development mucky-muck Brian Valentine. Brian apparently uttered this while he was caught fluttering around in a billowing cloud of obvious somewhere over the Redmond campus: “We really haven’t done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren’t engineered for … More
September 5, 2002
And while we’re still beating the topic of discontinued technology to death, my faithful referrer logs dislodged yet another mention of my Newton server. Now we’re famous in Argentina, thanks to Mariano Amartino over at the Denken Über weblog. Since my ability to comprehend Spanish is only marginally better than willingness to use Windows, I’ll … More
September 5, 2002
In between the recent surge of Newton-related items floating around the tech news sites and the subsequent mudslide of visits to my Newton server, Robert Basilio Jr. emailed the following question. Since there’s been a least a little bit of renewed interest in Newton technology lately, somebody else may find my blathering useful as well. … More
September 5, 2002
Bare Bones just banged out a crisp little maintenance release for BBEdit. And although there are no new features, a sufficient whack of AppleScript and OS X related fixes have been included. Read the 6.5.3 release notes and get your fill of the specifics.
September 4, 2002
I’m having a bit of difficulty in discerning the obvious co-marketing tie-in, but Small Dog Electronics is offering coupons for a free pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream when you purchase a copy of Mac OS X Jaguar. One of the few links between these two companies that I have been able to find … More
September 4, 2002
Adobe is currently snaggled in a contractual rights dispute with both ITC and Agfa Monotype involving the legality of embedding faces from their eponymous Type Library. Faces that have of course, been licensed from the aforementioned foundries. ITC and AMT are clamoring in the streets and hollering “DMCA! DMCA!” Adobe is responding with a jaunty … More
September 3, 2002
Double decker bus. Crossroads Market, Calgary.
September 3, 2002
It appears that the reason my Newton web server has been getting hammered since last night is that it merited a mention on Mike’s List. What the heck is Mike’s List? That’s what I wanted to know. Big surprise, it’s an email newsletter digitally stapled together by one Mike Elgan, computer industry wonk to the … More
September 2, 2002
I’m not sure where all the visitors are coming from, but there has been a steady stream of folks knocking on the door of my Newton web server all evening. It’s times like this that I wish that: 1) the server software had a bit more oomph in the request logging department, and 2) I … More
September 1, 2002
It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon. The kids have been well behaved for most of the day, but all of a sudden you notice that it’s a bit too quiet. You wander upstairs to see what they might be into and your ten year old daughter says with a grin, “Hey Dad. Look what we’re doing. … More