March 10, 2001
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Three dead batteries and a single black pixel. What to do? What to do…
Archive: March, 2001
March 8, 2001
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On a related note… To put this into a little bit of perspective, the HTML code to render the page you are currently looking at weighs in at just over 40KB. With another 17,500 bytes or so, we could have ourselves a ground-breaking software application. And don’t forget to put the Fatbits in the Goodies … More
March 8, 2001
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Children of MacPaintFor those times when designing in single bit greyscale with only a handful of paint tools at your disposal just doesn’t cut the mustard.
March 8, 2001
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Did you realize that it was five years ago this month that Microsoft released their TrueType Core Fonts for use in web page design? How on earth did we cope with the sterile online typographic environment before being blessed with the ubiquitous quadratic-derived glyphs of Trebuchet, Verdana, and Comic Sans? How? In celebration of this … More
March 8, 2001
Where’s the returns department?
Take Back The Net is a self-proclaimed “crusade” aimed specifically at netizens (Argh … I am really beginning to detest that word) encouraging them to purchase goods online is a bit like trying to convince Napster users to download music. “Fueled by a lack of confidence, our economy is slipping into recession. If this trend … More
March 7, 2001
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Well, the DSL modem was installed and all the blinken lights seem to be working. I can reach the outside world through it, but apparently I still need to wait for Cadvision to properly route my static IPs. Until then, I can’t see my home network from the office. The thing that really boggles me … More
March 7, 2001
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Good morning. I’m at home, just waiting for my DSL…The installer will be here “sometime between 9:30 and noon”. My ISP must be using the same Microsoft Project Targeted Scheduling Approximation Wizard that our cable company uses.
March 6, 2001
The sbit hits the fan.
Building fonts for dead computing platforms. That’s what I think I should dedicate more of my waking hours to. And to start it off this evening, I installed Apple’s Newton Toolkit (NTK). Along with a plethora of standard programming environment goodliness, NTK allows you to take existing Mac OS bitmap typefaces and turn them into … More
March 5, 2001
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I carted a Previa-sized wad of accumulated digital flotsam away to an offsite storage facility this weekend. I’ve certainly been aware of how piles tend to grow once they’ve been sitting on the floor in my office for a while, but I never realized how much room they were actually taking up. My goodness, I … More
March 5, 2001
Tweaky Type
Lucky me. I just stumbled across Jonathan Hoefler’s Geometer screen font packages over at his typography.com site. These bitmapped lovelies are Mac only (natch) and positively free for the taking. Give Geneva and Monaco a rest and grab some gorgeous alternatives to the default cast of characters usually found in Finder windows and email clients … More