ISSN 1496-3221
January 15, 2003
If you happened to notice that this site (or any of the others I happen to host out of the rack beside the washing machine in my basement) was a bit tardy serving pages over the past few days, you weren’t alone. It seems that my ADSL modem had decided to throttle down on the … More
January 14, 2003
How can you tell when someone’s been hanging around other designers, thumbing through reams of stock photography books and browsing thousands of online search results to find nothing but perfect full-page images for some project? When it comes time to post the available domain name of the week and it turns out to be killerheroes.com … More
January 14, 2003
You can personally thank my dear friend Rob for this picture. He’s the young pup in the foreground whose pants you fortunately can’t see. I imagine you’ve already deduced who’s wearing the stripes centre stage. I’m not sure who the heck the other guy is. Golly, weren’t the early seventies a wonderful time for children’s … More
January 14, 2003
I was beginning to wonder how long it would take for someone to start skinning the Safari browser. I need wait no more. Waterfall Software has released the first version of their SafariMasks navigation button replacement utility. The funniest part of this whole thing is not the fact that people want to continuously tinker with … More
January 14, 2003
Apparently the new 2.9 preview version of iCab is much faster due to changes in the cache management and other internalities. While this may not seem too exciting on the surface, the iCab news page hints at these changes laying the groundwork for even more significant revisions to the code for version 3.0, including “better … More
January 13, 2003
Did I mention that my Newton web server won its category in the annual Newtie Awards? I didn’t think so. I even took it upon myself to design some cute little web buttons to go along with this years festivities. Oh, it’s a joy just to be nominated. I hope it doesn’t all go to … More
January 12, 2003
The ladies of the house use my seven year old Power Macintosh 8500. It’s not a bad machine, just an older, crankier one. In fact, it’s been a veritable workhorse since it arrived along with my cable modem back in December of 1995. It’s been upgraded with not quite a quarter megabyte of RAM, a … More
January 9, 2003
Lettering on stairwell door. 5th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.
January 9, 2003
Hot on the heels of Apple’s new browser, good old Waferbaby slapped together a quick little hack that will convert your Chimera bookmarks to a format that Safari can digest easily. And on a slightly belated note, my other geeky Australian friend Toby Thain released his Windows icon (ICO) file format plug-in for Photoshop the … More
January 9, 2003
Playing with Safari? You might be interested in following along on Dave Hyatt’s Surfin’ Safari weblog. Dave is a member of the Safari development team at Apple and has been offering updates on bug fixes as well as responses to comments regarding Safari posted on other high profile weblogs such as Meyerweb and diveintomark. Some … More