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October 25, 2001

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Happy birthday dad. Nice hat.

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October 25, 2001

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Microsoft has just pinched out a service release for the Mac version of Internet Explorer 5.0. It’s not earth-shattering news by any measure of excogitation, but it does offer a couple of fixes for extracurricular media plug-in and Entourage specific issues. Go on, patch away.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

October 25, 2001

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Oh, and the Macromedia/Adobe patent lawsuit has been clarified. As if you care.

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October 25, 2001

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Ah, there’s nothing quite like a link from Quorporation’s Newstoday&#174 site to more than double your single day visitor traffic in one swift kick. Thank you people, I’m pracitically overwhelmed with emotion at the moment. Scouts honour.

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October 23, 2001

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I knew that the interfaciators over at Iconfactory had collaborated with Microsoft on a couple of heavy projects before, namely the Macintosh versions of Outlook Express and Office 2001, but it knocked me on my keister to discover that they had been pixel farming the fields of bliss in Windows XP as well. And other … More

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October 23, 2001

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I can forgive the hype. I can ignore all of the wishful speculation of what it should or could have been. I can even drown out the grumpy mumblings of all the dissenting uniplatformists. When it comes right down to it, I think I’m in love. Sigh.

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October 23, 2001

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Snap. Crackle. Pop. Just when I was starting to think that the firmware update I mashed into this system over the weekend was a huge mistake, things are working again. Of course, that fresh install of system software and the hunting down of a couple of questionably valid preference files probably didn’t hurt either. But … More

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October 21, 2001

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Why can’t these two pixel slinging idiots just make up and move on already? Instead of pounding the collective snot out of each other after school every day like a couple of mall rats who just stole the other moron’s girlfriend, why can’t they just use the brains they were given and start innovating again? … More

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October 21, 2001

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Serendipitous email poetry: This message failed and it had rejected.Maximal number of dispatch intents exhausted. Wasn’t that beautiful?

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October 20, 2001

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You Are Extremely NumerousRuminations and thoughts on the upcoming AppleScript Studio application development environment for Mac OS X. Of course, this article also taunts the tenaciously stubborn HyperCard user (hand raised accordingly) with the wistful premise that our favorite rapid prototyping tool may not have died under the hobnailed boot of the irascible Mr. Jobs … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.