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Archive: April, 2001

April 5, 2001

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There’s a shiny, happy box full of WebStar upgrade on the way as of this morning. Now all I need to do is conjure up another disused Power Mac so I can transfer over all the sites I’m currently hosting. Sure, I already have a 9500, courtesy of Bruce over at Webcore Labs, but the … More

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April 4, 2001

It’s sneaking up on me.

Only eight days until I am no longer working at EyeWire. Some people are going to give me the berries about the fact that I still say that I work for EyeWire, and not for Getty Images, which is our parent company. The main reason for this discrepancy is that for the past 20 months … More

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April 3, 2001

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Textism offers up a quattro of handy dandy text formatting scripts designed specifically to facilitate processing words for the web. They’ve been written specificallty for Tex-Edit, but can be more or less tweaked and noodled for use with any AppleScript-compilant text editor.

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April 3, 2001

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I don’t know about you, but I sense that this Modern Humorist piece is just riding on the month-old coat tails of the original pre-emptive strike against meme-jacking, All Your Brand Belong To Us. Both of these sites are playing up the idea of using the worn-out All Your Base meme for marketing purposes. The … More

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April 2, 2001

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In case anyone still gives a flying flip, Netscape has just released yet another revision to its limping, old-school browser suite. Yes, here it is folks… give it up for Communicator 4.7.7 in the flesh. And once they get around to it, the release notes for this version should appear like magic at the end … More

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April 1, 2001

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Creating Docklings in Mac OS X “A dockling is a lightweight component, packaged in a MacOS X bundle, which can provide constant visual feedback through its icon as well as a pop-up menu which can execute commands.” Cool.

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April 1, 2001

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Bingo!

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April 1, 2001

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Just testing for a bug in blogger. If all goes as planned, this entry which was originally posted at 3:33 pm won’t show up in my blog until after 4:33 pm.

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April 1, 2001

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I just realized that it has been exactly ten weeks since my last haircut.

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April 1, 2001

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Certain people would like to think that my previous announcement was just an elaborately constructed April Fools Day ruse. Nope. Although, speaking of feign elaboration, I very much enjoyed stumbling across this fine example over at The Mac Evangelist.

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