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Archive: April, 2002

April 26, 2002

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Now, see what happens when you let the developers handle the event marketing? Some well intentioned, but questionably driven souls down in Cupertino are doing their darndest to crank up a little bit of last minute public relations hoopla for the Worldwide Developer Conference next month. I know this because the Apple Developer Connection just … More

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April 26, 2002

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Bidirectional communication. It’s a good thing.

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April 25, 2002

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 Tree shadow on sidewalk. 5th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.

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April 23, 2002

Three lines, free.

If dear sweet Jane can continue to produce a reasonably regular literary installment in the form of the lusciously variable Poetry Friday, then dammitall so can I. Introducing a little something that I am calling, for obvious reasons, Three Line Poems from the Subject Lines of Spam. Please enjoy the first couple of stanzas. They … More

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April 22, 2002

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Glenn Anderson just scooched out another tidy update to EIMS for all you folks that run Mac-based mail servers. I did a little happy dance to celebrate. And you? Via Archipelago

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April 22, 2002

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Adam Tow, a fine chap and the purveyor of nifty software products, including a veritable flash card full of absurdly useful packages that I use daily on my Newton, has released JPEG-JFIF Repair. This program, surprisingly enough, basically does what it says. Certain digital cameras create what are seemingly valid JPEG files, but those same … More

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April 22, 2002

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 No, I don’t think I will, thank you very much. As much as I’d love to search for my software disk, give up, locate an appropriate version online, download and decompress a self-mounting disk image, and than reinstall Open Transport just because the Network Time control panel insists on blaming the network layer as opposed … More

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April 20, 2002

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Racks, finally? Because the configurations are announced enormous.

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April 19, 2002

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Wondering where we went? The splorp.com ADSL connection was down for a couple of hours this evening. Sorry about that. But, wait a minute here… why am I apologizing? It’s not like it was my fault. At least not this time. Of course, nothing regarding the outage would ever dare show up on Cadvision’s status … More

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April 19, 2002

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 Headphones on desk in the late afternoon. Calgary.

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