ISSN 1496-3221
May 16, 2000
The way too cool for my brain department. Scientists in Massachusetts are building recyclable polymorphic robots using three dimensional thermoplastic printing technology. “With each new task, the look of a polymorphic robot is impossible to predict, because each design is “evolved” using a genetic algorithm. The physical structure, and the neural network that will be … More
May 16, 2000
A story of woe update. I’m cheering up. It looks like I won’t have to reimport a mass of email messages after all. I rebuilt the email database file using Emailer’s built-in utility (You can access it by holding down the option key on launch). Rebuilding ignores all of the permanently deleted messages, indexing only … More
May 16, 2000
A story of woe. I started getting these weird system freezes while using BBEdit today. Here’s the scenario… I’ve set up a series of KeyQuencer macros to streamline wrapping text blocks with <font> tags, and after calling the same macro four or five times, BBEdit would freeze and give me the old rapid flashing system … More
May 16, 2000
On the way in to work this morning, I was listening to an old mix tape that I made back in 1984. One of the songs was Drivers Seat by Sniff ‘n’ the Tears. I don’t know how many dozens of times I have listened to it, but today I swear I heard an accordian … More
May 15, 2000
Separated at birth? While working on another update to my spiral logo critique, I noticed the following bit of design synchronicity. If you take the NaviSite logo and rotate it 28 degrees clockwise, you end up with the Extensity logo. But wait! You would think that these high-tech twins would stop there, but no. The … More
May 15, 2000
And people think I’m obsessive because I still insist on using a Newton rather than moving over to a Palm. (Please note that I didn’t say “move up to a Palm”.) Just get a load of this bunch.
May 15, 2000
Here’s the real reason why those Microsofties still have a job. A fully carbonized version of Internet Explorer for Mac OS X is coming down the pipe. So it’s not really that big of deal to take a properly written app that runs under OS 9 and make it jiggy to OS X, but I … More
May 15, 2000
Forget the rumors. There’s tons of real-live skinny pouring out of Apple’s Worldwide Developer conference in San Jose. Some of the highlights: \r\* Final API specs available in Mac OS X DP4\r\* Mac OS X is going public beta this summer\r\* Skanky new MPEG-iness coming up in QuickTime 5.0\r\* Price slashed on WebObjects unlimited server … More
May 14, 2000
Microsoft recently made available a beta version of the first Service Pack (read: Bunch O’ Bug Fixes) for Windows 2000, and the whole shebang weighs in at a voluminous 190 MB. Ack! Makes you wonder what was wrong with the version they shipped. Ok, I’ll admit that the entire Service Pack isn’t made up entirely … More
May 14, 2000
Neither my own mother nor my mother-in-law are online, or use computers for that matter, but I would be remiss if I didn’t send out a happy mom’s day greeting anyway. So there.