ISSN 1496-3221
August 6, 2000
A comment received through my viewer mail: From: Ian McDougallTo: Grant HutchinsonDate: 05/08/2000 03:03 PMSubject: Re: A Milestone For SVG “Looks like Flash is the RealAudio of vector graphics, whereas SVG is the QuickTime. Bandwidth will eventually make the differences irrelevant.” The comparison is fair except for the fact that QuickTime works wonderfully and looks great … More
August 6, 2000
Still on the theme of unfounded paranoid tendencies, America Online is removing a feature in Netscape because of pressure from customers regarding the potential use and abuse of support-related information being transferred between parties. My opinion is that the removal of the feature is not specifically to placate the frothing privacy-concerned masses, but is being … More
August 6, 2000
Are companies getting more paranoid by the day, or are they just getting stupider? First it was the Smurfy hardware manufacturer Cobalt firing volleys at Apple, believing they have a lock on computers resembling salt licks, and now the questionably innovative automotive dinosaur Ford is flaring it’s legal nostrils and filing suit against an online … More
August 5, 2000
Over the next few weeks, we are going to experience a cross-departmental reorganization at work. Most folks with any sense at all, would run screaming down the hall towards the kitchen common-room, slash desperately at the refrigerator, and grasp blindly for anything slightly alcoholic (preferably a dark microbrew) at the mere mention of this type … More
August 3, 2000
The Palm Vx Claudia Schiffer Edition was announced this week. An exclusive arrangement with Palm will allow the ex-model to flog the brushed-metal-blue scratchpad on her site. I like to have a color choice as much as the next handheld technology fetishist, and that’s why I bought an orange Visor instead of a boring old … More
August 2, 2000
Hmmm… I think I’ve seen this ad somewhere before, about sixteen years ago. It seems to me that some companies have got more nerve than common courtesy. Hey, here’s a dollar — go buy yourselves real agency this time.
August 2, 2000
A new article by Tog over at Macworld talks about the evolution of the Mac interface and underneath all the gewgaws and widgets, what really makes a Mac a Mac. I am particularly enchanted by this observation: “With the Mac, you have always had the power to move around and organize applications and documents in … More
August 1, 2000
I hate it when I’ve been too busy to blog.