ISSN 1496-3221
December 11, 2000
Fan mail, fresh from the inbox: “Hey, r u the guy that i saw in the front page at splorp.com living from the grantcam? Cool though too slow.” I’ve always had a bit of trouble describing why I have a webcam, but I think this email help nail it down. I’m “living” from the grantcam, … More
December 9, 2000
Taking our annual family trek to the local garden center (inexplicably spelled Garden Sentre on the four story signage outside the building) to purchase the official Christmas timber is fun. Hearing our kids sing songs they’ve never heard before while hanging every last ornament, regardless of condition or æsthetic, on the now-thawed tree is fun. … More
December 8, 2000
Oh my goodness, I think I may have actually posted something to my blog using the wireless edition of Blogger and my Newton.
December 7, 2000
Flummoxed by the current state of web standards? Does talk of cross browser compatibility put your colon in a clamp? Relax. Like a reliable old country doctor, the wrench ape has just punched up a tidy overview of XHTML that will put a hot iron to your furrowed brow. Take two quoted attribute arguments and … More
December 7, 2000
It’s not enough that we find it necessary to comment on other people’s commentary in your own blog. Why not let complete strangers comment on your comments on other people’s commentary? Why not indeed? BlogVoices is a free discussion-like commenting system that you can slap into an existing Blogger-powered blog like a new set of … More
December 6, 2000
Designing Web 3D Interfaces This is just wrong. Please make it stop.
December 5, 2000
The Foibles of Font SubstitutionNice ligs. Shame about the face. Remember when your original LaserWriter couldn’t print using more than two or three different fonts at a time without hacking up a big old PostScript limitcheck hairball and defaulting your entire single-page document to Courier? Now those were the days.
December 5, 2000
Undoing The Mac OS FaceliftIt can’t possibly take anyone by surprise that people are trying to make Mac OS X more Mac OS-like. I used to run extensions under System 7 to make it look like System 6. I couldn’t see the wonderful utility of those new-fangled disclosure triangles, because Apple decided to change the … More
December 4, 2000
The ridiculously indispensible FinderPop has been recently dot versioned and is now resting comfortably. If you have never used FinderPop, you should. If you use it, but have never registered, you should. Ding dang it anyway, go buy Turly a Beamish, feel good about yourself, and pop those contextual menus like they’ve never been popped … More
December 4, 2000
Help me out with something. Let’s say a hypothetical web site uses a series of static, server-side include files to define portions of a hypothetical user interface. The elements that are created using the hypothetical include files are common across both dynamically-generated pages and hand-coded pages. These include files can be modified independently of any … More