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Archive: July, 2002

July 12, 2002

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Just one word. Sticky.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 12, 2002

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Apologies to Ian (fingerfarm.com, toloko.ca), Danyon (danyon.com, plunderkind.com), Sheldon (askthevet.ca, animalmedicalcentre.ca), and anyone else who has had one of their domains go dark this week. The endless pit of internet service provision doom known as Telus yanked my DSL gateway IP address two days earlier than expected, leaving my primary name server without a forwarding … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 9, 2002

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Looks like Ed is going dark once again. And this time it sounds rather permanent. Thanks for the anecdotes, the pictures, the tales of frustration, and the nuggets of wisdom, Ed. It’s been a slice. See you in the funny papers…

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 9, 2002

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Apple’s iTools web services look like they’re going to be rebranded as .mac once the Jaguar update to OS X is released, at least according to a short blurb over at Think Secret. One the one hand, I’m all about Apple using the Mac brand as often and as thoroughly as possible — it’s really … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 9, 2002

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 Lane behind 9th Avenue and 14th Street Southeast, Calgary.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 9, 2002

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BlogChalking “…is a movement attempting to create a region-sensible blog-search system — decentralized, improvised (influencing existing Internet search engines) and world-wide. Truly cool and simple.” Via DayPop

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 8, 2002

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Could somebody remind me again why I thought installing Acrobat 5 was a good idea? Why? Because it’s a slogging resource pig, that’s why. And it is just me waxing rhetorical, or are all of Adobe’s OS X-compatible applications designed specifically to suck massively when used under OS 9? Not classic, we’re talking under straight-up … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 5, 2002

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Microsoft just slid a minor browser update out the door for all you folks clinging to your classic Mac operating systems. Internet Explorer 5.1.5 offers some HTTP enhancements which don’t seem to be documented anywhere, and apparently corrects several security vulnerabilities (what else is new) which are covered in more detail here. I suppose I … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 5, 2002

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Oh, and to top the week off, I have an infected sty in one of my lower eyelids and I seem to be having some sort of inflammatory reaction to the antibiotic ointment that the doctor prescribed. The fun never stops.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

July 5, 2002

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You may have been wondering why you haven’t been able to connect to this site over the past couple of days. Or perhaps your concerned where the heck your own site that was being hosted on the splorp.com server went. Well, let me fill you in. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have found it … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.