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September 12, 2003
Seeing how Daniel’s Old Technology Giveaway is still running and I seem to have an inexhaustible supply of the aforementioned ‘old technology’, I’ve uploaded a few more examples of the digital detritus littering our basement. There’s not quite as much to slobber over as was in the previous load, but it should be relatively entertaining … More
September 9, 2003
Mr Neufeld, the friendly neighborhood geek down the street, elucidated thus on why my AppleScript woes were suddenly vanquished to the ether: “When you removed the conflicting osaxen, your script just compiled against the system dictionaries. Since it was already compiled when you put the osaxen back, it remembered which commands to use (the system … More
September 9, 2003
Please do not adjust your set. We are currently experiencing issues with the file uploading feature of our webcam software. It seems that when the camera is running, the FTP server randomly flips out during the sequential file renaming. And when FTP is finally working properly, I forget to leave EvoCam running on my machine … More
September 8, 2003
Looking for an internet address as equally suited to the study of collapsing supernovae as it is to a Meat Loaf fan club? Have I ever got a deal for you. It just so happens that the available domain name of the week is superdense.com
September 8, 2003
During one of those ‘head meets desk’ moments today, I discovered that AppleScript under OS X recognizes scripting additions that reside in your OS 9 system folder. On one level this makes an awful lot of sense, since this is the same basic behaviour the two systems use with respect to fonts. Simply, OS X … More
September 4, 2003
In the midst of a voluminous, teetering load of honest to goodness work, I’ve managed to steal away a few minutes to install the latest release of Panther. Excuse me while I wander off and muck around a bit… Perhaps I can find a way to present a little show and tell later on, while … More
September 1, 2003
Commericial signage. Kensington Road & 14th Street NW, Calgary.
September 1, 2003
So apparently what happened was this… the domain name of the week took off on an unauthorized late summer hiatus all on its own. My intention was to make sure that it was well supervised and updated every week, but then I noticed that something was amiss. It turns out that the page hadn’t been … More