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April 8, 2000
I host a quite few other sites on this server, and one of my friends keeps accidentally overwriting my home page. I noticed that something was amiss again this morning, because he had put up a temporary page in its place. It’s my own fault really, since I gave his ftp account basically the same … More
April 8, 2000
My wife’s sister is getting married today. On top of hosting the rehearsal dinner at our house last night and reading at the ceremony today, I’m also fighting a nasty nasal passage clogging head cold. Updates may be sporadic this weekend, but then, we all should be outside enjoying the spring air instead of absorbing … More
April 7, 2000
Mmmm, donuts… The Tim Horton’s web site lists the following nutritional information regarding their baked goods. Since December 1997, all Tim Hortons products have been completely free of lard and pork by-products. Prior to that, there were only minimal traces of animal fat in some products, however all of these traces were removed at that … More
April 7, 2000
Egads! Post-It Notes turn twenty years old this week. Imagine what the computer revolution would have been like if we only had scotch tape for fastening reminders to our monitors. The entire workplace æsthetic would be different. Great slabs of foolscape draped over the screen. I know I haven’t seen the brightness and contrast controls … More
April 6, 2000
You know, Macromedia just gets it don’t they? Now, if they could just make the interfaces between their various apps more consistant like Adobe seems to be able to do, and then actually decide on one (or even two) standard ways of using pop-up menus within dialog boxes and floating palettes, I might even use … More
April 6, 2000
The best and the worst thing about Netscape 6.0 or Mozilla M14 or whatever it happens to be called when you download it, is the skins. Because the skins (or chrome as it’s referred to by Netscape) are comprised of a billion tiny gif images, the entire package takes up way too much drive space … More
April 6, 2000
And like all good open source projects, Darwin has a to do list. Support for older Macs you say? My Quadra 950 is just shimmying with anticipation.
April 6, 2000
Apple just released Darwin 1.0, the open source version of the core operating system found in Mac OS X. It’s all ready to tinker with, but you’ll need to add a few things yourself, like maybe an interface. Or some sort of graphics architecture, perhaps a couple of usable drivers, and probably an API. Never … More
April 5, 2000
I found this incredibly beautiful, yet utterly useless piece of freeware called Gravité. It makes objects dragged in the Mac OS Finder react realistically to gravity, air resistance, and mouse friction. If you have a Mac, you really should install this and play with it. It is a simple joy to behold.
April 5, 2000
After tinkering around with Manila and a crazy-assed FileMaker database thing that a friend suggested, I took the plunge into bloggerland. Even though I prefer to have all things server-side (my server-side that is), Blogger is a pretty cool implementation of remote control publishing.