ISSN 1496-3221
June 7, 2001
If I haven’t posted anything for a day or two, it’s usually because life has been busy with other things that are simply more important than staring at a sheet of pixels. In a way this was true yesterday as our household launched our first ever Wireless Wednesday. No computer. No radio. No television. No … More
June 5, 2001
I know this is getting to be creaky news, but I still get a swift kick in the head out the the fact that Microsoft needs to issue security updates for a freaking word processor. Makes me think that RTF is not longer simply an acronym for Rich Text Format, but perhaps the more nascent … More
June 4, 2001
Somehow, an innocently forwarded link to this curious toy led to a convoluted email exchange with Howie involving the online marketing potential of cat mucus. How, in the name of James Burke, do these things happen? Original link via svn. Damn them.
June 4, 2001
I think I’ve just filled up my summer reading list. Tom Owad over at the Applefritter site recently posted over 5,000 pages of technical texts, manuals, historical documentation, and schematic diagrams related to the Apple Lisa. There is so much information here, that my eyeballs are spinning in opposite directions while I attempt to make … More
June 2, 2001
After my pitiful display yesterday, the pleasantly aloof Daniel offered to help me beat my misbehaving style sheets into submission. Not that I haven’t been having fun smacking my head against my keyboard over and over again. This evening, I am prematurely returning the favour by starting up another fusion for him to share with … More
June 1, 2001
Cheeze & crackers, I’ve been chatty today. I must be relaxed.
June 1, 2001
So here’s the deal. This site will turn five on the old year-dometer in approximately a month, and I have been frantically working on a redesign just for the occasion. A redesign that is not just a random spritz of æsthetic spray paint, but a desperately overdue technical overhaul. So the problem is, while I … More
June 1, 2001
I knew there were rumblings that Adobe was working on some snarky stuff with XML and PDF. Well, here’s just a sample of the toys we’re going to be able to play with. They’ve just released a beta Save As XML Plug-In for Acrobat 5 that will take a “tagged” PDF and allow you to … More
June 1, 2001
About a month ago, I told a story of how my trusty old Multiple Scan 20 monitor had started turning sporadically green. After applying a liberal amount of compressed air to purge the bunny build-up, I thought I had the problem licked. Alas, it was not to be. I finally lugged the beasty off to … More