ISSN 1496-3221
December 17, 2001
What the hell was I thinking? Sometime Friday afternoon I succumbed to the metaphorical arm-twisting of a good friend and former work mate of mine. If I’m not mistaken, I believe I actually agreed to begin working with him (and a handful of other former cohorts) on at least a couple of fulltime projects starting … More
December 16, 2001
This weekend seems backwards to me.
December 14, 2001
Isn’t it ironic? Nary a day after the Web Standards Project goes on hiatus, the engagingly blunt Matthias Gutfeldt took me to task in a lively exchange of electronic mail for subscribing to the whole WaSP instigated browser upgrade program in the first place. While I couldn’t completely agree with him regarding the questionable value … More
December 13, 2001
And people tell me that I have a bunch of old crap lying around. Courtesy of the Google Groups Usenet Archive, I’d like to present my first ever Usenet post which dates back seven years almost to the day. Cripes.
December 13, 2001
Just what the world needs. Another crazy apple rumors site. Snort.
December 13, 2001
There’s been a goodly amount of folks linking to Owen Briggs’ Design Rant in the last couple of days. One more pointer to it isn’t going to hurt anyone. And if you design or code sites and haven’t trundled over to read this yet, please do. He’s expounding on some fundamentally important stuff. Click. Peruse. … More
December 12, 2001
I was in a tidying mood tonight and discovered that I had ten Adobe applications, full versions and updates alike, that had never been registered. I’d better get on that first thing in the morning. I’d reallt hate to miss out on great benefits like technical support, early notification of product upgrades, new product announcements, … More
December 12, 2001
Alright, who was the wise guy that said that 6.x browsers were nothing but the berries? Everybody’s flavour favourite, the emphatic A List Apart, does what it does best and describes a couple of annoying bugs in them there next generation page parsers. They certainly aren’t the end of the world, but you should be … More
December 10, 2001
Stop it man, you’re making my brain hurt. Left coastal friend Noel has done it again. First it was his font metrics parser and now it’s this. Dynamically editable text displayed on an customizable arc path, again using Flash. Would somebody just hire this guy. Until that actually happens, here’s something else for you to … More
December 9, 2001
Thanks to everyone who sent it suggestions regarding my quest for an MP3 batch processing solution. It’s looks like the way to go is to use iTunes. By specifying a custom import configuration and changing the default music folder, I can suck in as many of my existing ripped tracks as I want and then … More