May 5, 2002
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I must of pulled something while posting all those items on Thursday. Yeesh.
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May 2, 2002
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It’s the first week of May in Calgary, so naturally that means that it’s snowing. Wet, stick-to-everything, springtime snow that is at least partly responsible for the minor power outages over the past couple of hours. I’ve found that operating a computer while the electrical current has indigestion makes routine tasks such as blogging and … More
May 2, 2002
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Well how about that. Adobe actually won the patent trial against Macromedia revolving around all those dockable, draggable palette widgets. Maybe once they’ve cashed the settlement cheque, they’ll consider using some of those 2.8 million clams to port a version of AlterCast to OS X. Erm. It’d probably be easier to get Macromedia not to … More
May 2, 2002
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HyperCard? SuperCard? MetaCard? PythonCard!
May 2, 2002
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Oh for crap’s sake. Cranky typeface behemoth Agfa Monotype has got it’s intellectual property knickers in a twist and is attempting to use the asinine legal crutch known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in order to prevent Tom Murphy from distributing his TrueType embedding tool. A tool, I might add, that he created for … More
May 2, 2002
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Milk crate in parking stall. 4th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.
May 1, 2002
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I’m starting to slip like a bad transmission. I can’t believe I completely missed this announcement last week. 4D released a decarbonized version of WebStar 4.5 specifically for Mac OS 9 users. Decarbonized. I love it! It looks like I might be able to hold out for those rack-mount Mac servers before switching to OS … More
April 30, 2002
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I’d add a preamble to this link, but I’m speechless. The K’nexintosh
April 30, 2002
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You probably spend a good part of your waking hours there, so why not take a minute to show off your true desktop? My own digitally enhanced reliquary is one of the featured heaps of acrylic-encased technology and other personal detritus in Mat Hoy’s new image project, the True Desktop Collection. It’s worth a peek.
April 29, 2002
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A short history of Apple’s Espy Sans and Espy Serif typefaces. Now if only someone would expound on the virtues of 18 pt eWorld Tight, the typeface I use for the headers on this very site. Now, that’s a damn fine font if you ask me.