ISSN 1496-3221
March 1, 2002
Grammy Awards organiser Michael Greene hath spake on behalf of musicians everywhere. “Ripping is stealing their livelihood one digital file at a time, leaving their musical dreams haplessly snared in this world wide web of theft and indifference.” Erm. Ripping isn’t so much stealing the musicians’ livelihood as it’s cutting into the music companies profit … More
March 1, 2002
Dymo is beautifully simple and utterly pointless typographic fun. It’s also one of those things that makes you nuts that didn’t come up with it yourself. Damnation. Via dangerousmeta
March 1, 2002
Two keyboards, a Newton, and a Cinema Display. Calgary.
March 1, 2002
I’d like to introduce to you some of the new friends I’ve become acquainted with while digging through the bowels of my Qube this evening, trying to get the damn router config working again. Presenting, in no particular order or chronology: /var/log/messages /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf /etc/inetd.conf /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/static-routes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /var/cobalt/status find / -name ‘*.pop’ -print rm … More
February 28, 2002
Nuts. Due to an odd ADSL outage early this morning (Technical explanation: you know the red blinky light on the front of your apparently discontinued modem which indicates that bad things have happened — well, it was on…), the Cobalt Qube that hosts the Newted Community site and several hundred email accounts lost it’s router … More
February 26, 2002
While we’re on the topic of posting odd assortments of uniformly framed pieces of digital artwork, waferbaby is pleased to announce that the several month gestation period for the one hundred panel fusion is finally over. Ah, these things definitely get better with age. Whether you’re irrepressibly curious or just plain nosey, my panel is … More
February 26, 2002
Underground parking garages. 5th Street and 5th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.
February 26, 2002
Good old sod Daniel thought that my photo of the window blinds yesterday was a bit lacking in terms of inspirational forethought. I guess the lighting and colours captured my attention more than my audience. Ah, well. Today, the world outside these office walls is dull and grey and very much uninspiring, but I’ll see … More
February 25, 2002
Window blinds in the living room, late afternoon. Calgary.
February 25, 2002
My favourite low-cal web server, MacHTTP has really started to hit its stride. Open source code. Ongoing development. Active user community. Increasingly regular updates. And speaking of regular updates, another beta has been posted for all the world to see. This new version fixes a few things but also improves upon a couple of necessary … More