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December 18, 2000
This morning, Matt asked the world whether squiggles are going to become the new swoosh. Personally, I believe the trend is leaning towards dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, and more dots becoming the new spiral. But then again, I’m biased.
December 18, 2000
Today’s web production adventure — a convoluted ballet of file format manipulation and presentation. Imagine if you will, a Java applet. Now imagine having the opportunity selling said Java applet as a downloadable product on a web site. Given this scenario, it would make some amount of sense to allow a potential customer to preview … More
December 16, 2000
My friend Jon has a particular way with words, and not just because he’s a writer and an editor by trade. He chooses what he writes carefully, and I am sure he agonizes over the syntactical and lexemic subtleties of nearly everything that casts a trail of graphite across paper. The more I am exposed … More
December 15, 2000
Big surprise. The Los Angeles Times would like to announce that the Mac version of Netscape 6 is laden with design flaws. The short story? They say don’t bother with it. I say why not? People are using it. People will upgrade to it. Keep it. Test with it. Just make sure that you have … More
December 14, 2000
It must be the season. Rachel bought everyone in our department pet gifts today. Not gifts of pets. Gifts for pets. Sheldon got bone-shaped doggie snacks for Dex, Howie got some sort of strangely configured canine-themed chew toy to throw at his cats after they puke on the floor, and my jar full of stickbugs … More
December 14, 2000
BBEdit 6.0.2 UpdateThere’s something truly comforting, yet genetically worrisome about the release of a new update to a piece of favourite software. Especially when it’s another massive dot revision that takes the form of nearly six pages worth of anally documented changes, tweaks, and bug squishings. On one hand, you’re positively vibrating from the adrenalin … More
December 13, 2000
Sorry. Blog all sold out today. Come back tomorrow.
December 12, 2000
Hats off to Danyon for pointing out that if you mixed together the yellow and blue from the Copyleft GNU General Public License t-shirt I wore today, you’d probably get same dark green as my Converse Chuck Taylor high-tops. It’s not as if I have the full complement of Pantone Textile Color Swatch Files at … More
December 11, 2000
MRAM To Allow Laptops To Sleep For YearsThis is sort of like that episode of ST:TNG when Scotty suspended himself inside the transporter of a ship that had crashed into the surface of a Dyson Sphere. Or, maybe not. I seem to recall that his boot up time was significantly longer than instantaneous.
December 11, 2000
Minimizing 404 Not Found ErrorsStep 1: Identify and fix incorrect and outdated links on your pages. Well, no shit. I cringe just thinking of how many gainfully employed, self-proclaimed web developers will read this article and actually come away from it learning something. Via LucDesk