ISSN 1496-3221
May 23, 2000
Yesterday was a holiday in Canada, so I spent much of the obviously extended weekend planting veggies and installing a new screen door on the back of the house. Honestly, there is nothing quite like the smell of freshly sawn aluminum. Why am I telling you this? Because I figured it would be polite to … More
May 21, 2000
If it ain’t chock full of meta, it ain’t Browserday.
May 20, 2000
Rafe Colburn hits a particular nail smack dab on the head: “My fundamental problem with the Internet industry today is that a huge percentage of the “dot coms” are companies based on stupid ideas that are executing on those stupid ideas very poorly.” Thanks, Rafe. I have been trying to put a similar revelation into … More
May 20, 2000
A Kaleidoscope scheme that was “identical or confusingly similar to Apple’s Aqua theme for its Mac OS X system” has been pulled from circulation by its author. I understand the need for protection of certain types of intellectual property and industrial design concepts, but wouldn’t it make more sense for Apple to encourage the adoption … More
May 19, 2000
Another day, another virus, another reason I’m glad to be not chained to the dominant operating system. And some people think I’m just being smug. Maybe I am, but I’m also not losing hours worth of my time playing hunt and peck with a virus that shouldn’t have existed in the first place had
May 18, 2000
I’m at a marketing department review today, so I may not have time to post anything until this evening. Fortunately, it’s not one of those touchy, feely getting to know you co-workers, conflict resolution, personality type identification things. This meeting is about actually doing stuff. I know, I’m amazed too. However, they have managed to … More
May 17, 2000
Run for your lives! The paper clips are attacking! A security hole in the Microsoft Office assistant, that annoying little animated twit in the floating windoid, opens up the potential to activate scripts remotely. At some point, it must be easier just to delete all the Microsoft products from your drive, rather than keep applying … More
May 17, 2000
HolyMac has a reasonably in-depth first hand look at Mac OS X DP4. It’s accompanied by some user experience observations and a smattering of screenshots. Of particular interest to me were some details on changes to the Finder and various widget tweaks. “You can use the new Finder almost exactly like the old Finder if … More
May 17, 2000
A bug that was swashed in Internet Explorer over three years ago has appeared once again in IE 5. Files are exposed. The Java runtime is implicated. No word on a fix. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
May 16, 2000
Apple has posted a few updated QuickTime flicks featuring the new and improved, widget-soaked Aqua interface. Stuff to keep your eyes peeled for… How about a freshly tweaked out dock that separates apps from documents and proudly sports a Newtonesque “puff o’ smoke” effect when items are removed from its animated confines? Who needs a … More