ISSN 1496-3221
August 19, 2000
Ah! Now that was refreshing. I’m back from my mini sabbatical and feeling as bright and chipper as an attractive glass wasp trap. If you’re looking for some profound connection between my self-imposed absence and chemical-free pest control products, well good luck buddy. But wait a minute… someone has been messing around with the grantcam … More
August 11, 2000
Posts will be sporatic over the next week or so, as I’m going to be taking a minor summertime brain break. I trust that everyone will behave while I’m out of the room. I’ll only be gone a minute or two.
August 11, 2000
A Name Too Far contains lucid commentary on the current state of corporate naming. Frankly, I feel simply awash with companies trying desperately to straddle the fine line between sanitized, compound word brand-blur and trying too hard to be hip, fake-funk. Via goodexperience
August 10, 2000
I was purging a bunch of old Red Herring, Industry Standard, and other e-bizzy trade rags at home the other day. As is my habit, I was quickly thumbing through the pages before tossing them into the recycle bin, diligently on the prowl for forgotten spiral logos, when I stumbled across this great ad for … More
August 10, 2000
It must be the week of the dumb-ass lawsuit. Now Adobe is filing against Macromedia for infringing on a patent that describes how certain aspects of customizable, dockable tabbed palettes function. I’m no fan of Macromedia’s implementation of user interface anyway, but at least they were attempting some sort of environmental consistency across toolsets. Obviously … More
August 9, 2000
The carpet needs a haircut. A perfectly marvelous line from a perfectly marvelous Tom Waits ditty that I had never heard before yesterday. For your viewing pleasure, here are the full lyrics from “The Piano Has Been Drinking”. The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleepAnd the combo went back to New York, the … More
August 9, 2000
As much as I admire both Woz and Dave Winer for similar and yet different reasons, there is something about these pictures of them at a concert that is fundamentally unsettling. Is anyone else getting weird vibes off these images, or is it just me? Speaking of unsettling images, there is now a miniature grantcam … More
August 8, 2000
Did you know that if you turn on the server side includes in Mac WebStar to process regular .html documents, and if you happen to be serving up Blogger generated content, the pages break. Oh yeah, they break big time. I’m not sure what the heck WebStar’s SSI plug-in is nabbing in the Blogger generated … More
August 7, 2000
Still lamenting the fact that your poor old 68030 hardware got royally screwed on the upgrade path of life when Apple released System 8.1? Well, dig out that old IIfx and grab a copy of Ruben Brochner’s Born Again. Before you know it, you’ll be popping up contextual menus willy-nilly, dropping files into Lord knows … More
August 7, 2000
The gratuitous, butt-kissing product name of the week award goes to Warnock Pro, one of the commercial OpenType fonts (this product category is no longer an oxymoron I suppose) just squeezed out of what’s left of the Adobe type department. Taking absolutely no chances with the marketing copy, Warnock Pro is described as “a classic … More