February 2002 Archives
[John Robb's Radio Weblog] has a neat story about how The Lord of the Rings was financed.
Jack Valenti Wants Your PC Under Lock & Key [Plastic]
He can want all day but it isn't going to happen. That dude is setting himself up for a huge fall.
What Makes a Good Web Design? [Slashdot]
Asking this on /. is like asking the Pope for help on picking a contraceptive.
I am attempting to make the transition to Radio 8 to maintain this site.
Windows Media Player in Linux [Slashdot]
Don't worry, it's all done with the commerical CodeWeavers WINE stuff. Microsoft didn't have anything to do with this. On a side note, you can also use this stuff to get QuickTime playing in linux.
"Islam Is Violent In Nature" - Pat Robertson Mouths Off Again [Plastic]
My mom always said if you don't have something nice to say then shut the hell up. Man this guy is such a dick. First he tries to pin September 11 on gays and liberals, and now this. Wow, what a great ambassador for Christianity this asshole is.
Rafe wonders what year are we in.
Bush acting like his dad and Reagan? Shocked! I'm shocked!
DHTML Articles At Webreference. Webreference has been releasing a ton of interesting DOM/DHTML/JavaScript articles recently: DOMDocument Node Selection, JavaScript and Accessibility, Creating a Cross-Browser... [scottandrew.com]
More for the reading list.
Can warlords make peace in Afghanistan?. Donald Rumsfeld wants the U.S. to stay out of peacekeeping and build a national army instead. The problem is that first you need a nation. [Salon.com]
Imagine that! Rumsfeld wants to build an army. Gosh. I'm just...amazed.
OddTod Laid Low by the Law [Slashdot]
I wondered when this guy was going to get screwed again. I'm sure he isn't taking in enough to actually do anything. Of course, rules are rules even if they are stupid, retarded rules.
On of the comments on /. took that high ground and said that they people who donate money to OddTodd are the kind that ignore homeless people on the streets. Well, to that, OddTodd isn't a homeless person on the street. He is offering up work that he has created and is asking for a small donation if you liked it. He is more like the sidewalk artists and musicians that work for their donations. It's a lot different than pan-handling.
RIAA Almost Down To Pre-Napster Revenues [Slashdot]
I'm sure they will deny that file-sharing helps their sales to the day they die. Which just shows they aren't are just interested in profits, but in total and complete control. That includes, but is not limited to making sure you never feel that you own the music you just bought and also finding a way to make sure you can't keep it forever and that you will have to keep giving them money for the same tunes. They used to do this with incentive tracks on re-released albums. How many copies of The White Album do you own?
Rumsfeld Mocks Britain's Ability To Handle Terror Suspects [Plastic]
I thought only the French could mock the British...you silly English son a pig-dog.
“
"To those who pit Americans against immigrants, citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil. Our efforts have been crafted carefully to avoid infringing on constitutional rights, while saving American lives.
”
John Ashcroft [ via CNN ]
Apple: WWDC 2002 is May 6-10 in San Jose, CA. [mac.scripting.com]
Looks I better brit-proof my house if that crazy Steven from Australia is going to be hanging around...
Practical, Practically Clean Vehicles - Toyota Launches Hydrogen-Powered Cars [Plastic]
How can a car that costs $75K be practical? Talk about taking to the early adopter! Don't get me wrong, if it weren't an SUV model I would totally want one. Maybe when Subaru makes an alternate fuel car I will get one.
NVIDIA Graphics Processors Optimized for Intel Pentium 4 Processor [AnandTech Web News]
Man...and Apple thought they had the scoop on NVIDIA too...
Chris Locke: "Dvorak's initially promising career writing for Datamation back in the 1900's was sadly cut short by his fondness for shooting heroin and circle jerks with young boys, spinning and chanting and hugging, all naked." 
[Scripting News]
See, I don't get how this is different from libel?
White House Wants Saddam Out of Power by 2005 [Plastic]
In an intercepted message from Iraq to the White House we see their response:
"We'll get right on that."
Apple posted two sample AppleScript Studio applications with source code. ImageEdit 1.0 manipulates images; iPhoto Tour 1.0 is a "talking head" interactive instructor application. [mac.scripting.com]
This is going to be a big as VB in the Windows world. (I know...I'm really going out on a limb here.)
Do you remember that scene in Starship Troopers where the "renegade Mormon outpost" is destroyed by the pissed off aliens?
Could LCD Shortage Mean Price Hikes? [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]
Somehow I doubt it. Apple usually makes deals to insultate them from price, be it up or down. Just look at how much RAM or HDD cost from the Apple Store.
Rafe hits the nail on the head about Ariel Sharon. Anybody who has read Body of Secrets would come to the same conclusions as well. The man doesn't know the first thing about peace.
Hey, Do You Wanna Run For President? HBO Is Looking To Back You! [Plastic]
I'm all over this...
Adobe Photoshop 7 Finally Announced [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]
Look who finally showed up to the party!
GAO Sues the White House to Get Cheney's Task Force Names [Plastic]
If you are even remotely interested in this story you should read the spinsanity.com column. They break down what is really being asked for.
Julian Bond: "I'm still amazed by the clarity, precision and elegance of the early RFCs. They feel like polished and cut diamonds that have had everything extraneous stripped away. Just enough to get the job done and no more. I think we could do worse than go back and review the RFC process and style and apply it to the current efforts." [Scripting News]
Heh, RFC 822 must be an exception ;-)
George W Bush on film: Seems like there is going to be a documentary of W as seen from the eyes of the press during his campaign. This should be great to watch to White House try and spin down. Sure he is acting like a goof-ball. So what. I can take that. What I can't take is his politics. I don't care if he is a goof-ball. I like a human in the office of the President. That's why I liked Clinton. I don't think I would like W even if he was more open, but I certainly wouldn't hold it against him. [ Weekly Standard ]
How Low Can The Homophobes Go? [Plastic]
I'm sure this isn't the first instance of people lying to get signatures, but it still sucks.
Doing baked ziti again tonight. I learned a few things last time, so hopefully I won't make the same mistakes again ;-)
We're only making plans for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs this helping hand
And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
We're only making plans for Nigel
He has his future in a British steel
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed
And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
Nigel is not outspoken
But he likes to speak
And loves to be spoken to
Nigel is happy in his work
We're only making plans for Nigel
Sometimes I listen to the Primus version of this song on repeat for about an hour. I don't know why. I don't really like the XTC version that much. I wish I did. XTC is a great band and I respect their music a lot. I just heard the Primus version first and in my mind it is how the song should sound.
Maybe I think I'm Nigel...or at least that I would identify with him.
Ah, but the Morning Fix is in the inbox...so no time for Love Dr. Jones.
What CSS Isn't. CSS is not for content management. CSS is purely presentational. You can't use CSS to pull navigation, databased content, headers,... [scottandrew.com]
Scott definately has a way with words when it comes to CSS and the whole recent war in weblog land.
I wish I could offer more than a "me too!" Sorry Scott ;-)
The State Of Validation 2002. Marko Karppinen's The State Of Validation 2002: As it happens, out of the 506 w3c members, only eighteen have web... [scottandrew.com]
I'll save you the click, they don't validate. I've run into trouble recently trying to make sites that validate. When I specify a DTD, Mozilla will go "into" that rendering mode. Unfortunately this was a site where I didn't do the design and there was the "it has to work in NS4" problem.
To people who comp web pages in Photoshop, it never occurs to them that somethings can't be done, or done everywhere, on the web. "In Photoshop I just click this filter button and make the alpha mask..." Yeah, I wish I could do that and have it look just like you comp, but I can't.
I don't have the option of telling people it can't be done. I have to make do. Sometimes I have to just make pages that are practically "one big jpeg" and it kills me. I know that while it looks like it works and that everything is fine...it isn't.
Arthur O Sulzberger: "While Internet traffic goes up, people still love newspapers." [Scripting News]
My parents were down to visit us last weekend. Not only did they bring two news papers with them, they also bought a Sunday paper while they were there. We were left with a huge stack of paper on our coffee table.
I still love dead tree books though, so who am I to complain ;-)
Bush preaches democracy to China. George W Bush ends a Chinese visit of little substance by extolling freedom and democracy in a speech broadcast across the country. [BBC News: world]
Where does he get off telling China they need more freedom when he is trying to make sure America has less freedom? His right-hand man Cheney is flipping the American people the bird when we want to know more about how they were controlled by Enron. His left-hand man Ashcroft is making sure that nobody says anything bad about the administration under the guise of patriotism and unity. It infuriates me to no end to hear them preach about freedom while they try and make life miserable for people who don't follow the same god. Their stance on gays is also something that really gets the blood boiling.
Yes, I do believe that George W Bush, or at least the people around him are trying to make sure that people in this country have less freedom. Maybe he is just mad that even though he won the Presidency, he lost the popular vote.
Whatever the reasons, I can't wait for the next election so I can vote against him again.
Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop? [Slashdot]
Linux won't fail on the desktop because it isn't even competing there. You've heard all the arguments before and I'm sure people would be quick to point to Star Office and Ximian Gnome or KOffice and KDE. Both sets of offerings are excellent and I've used them both, I do currently run Ximian Gnome though. They do not compete with Mac OS or Windows, pick any recent version that you want.
Frankly I don't see how a product whose direction is determined solely by engineers is competing with a product whose direction is driven by financial factors. Again, this is not to say that either reason makes one product inferior, only that they don't really compete against each other.
Terror Dorks - Italy's Cyanide Terrorists Had Wrong Kind Of Cyanide [Plastic]
Oh man...the string of amateur "terror attacks" is going really going to suck. Not only will they not do any damage, they will continue to hype up the Bush spin machine for taking away our rights.
Do You Like Your Job? [Slashdot]
Heh....sure...
Yesterday after brushing up on Dogma 2000, I had a thought. If you believe the Web is a come-as-you-are, we're-all-just-folks writing and reading environment, why bother with CSS? Serious question. Go ahead and flame me if you want, but the question is still there.
Well Dave, CSS is even more for the writer than the reader IMHO. I want to write in structure, not in design. I know that Radio/Manila themes handle this with ease already, and the CSS Theme will handle it even better ;-) I still believe that keeping design out of the structure allows me to easily move from format to format (with certain complicated tools of course).
When we were looking at writing internal documentation, we decided HTML was a "bad idea" and ended up going with docbook. We could create basic HTML, PDF, and PS from one XML file.
Would 'Publish to PDF' in Radio be a mind bomb?
PressPlay and MusicNet vs. Artists [Slashdot]
Like the artists will ever win... Saw the first minutes of The Three Amigos the other day on Comedy Central. The labels have the money to wait out a strike, and wouldn't even have to worry since it's marketing and not talent that makes them money...didn't you see Making the Band?
This is not to insult the artists that actually have talent and care about their work and want to get it out to people. On the contrary, these are the very people the labels are dicking over. Of course, this has been said a million times already and I'm not really adding anything new to the dicussion so I'll shut up now.
'Power seized' in Madagascar. The opposition candidate in Madagascar's presidential election dismisses further talks on the disputed poll and says he is taking control. [BBC News: world]
Don't worry. The Olympic judging scandal is still more news worthy. Who cares about Madagascar anyways?
Dave asks what people think about Avantgo charging to distribute content through their system. I think it sounds like they are in trouble. Yeah, understatement, I know. They are going to turn the screws and the bulk of their content probably can't or won't pay up. If they are stuck between doing this and going out of business, is there a difference if they loose the bulk of their content?
I liked Avantgo because I could read Suck and plastic and other 'out of the way' sites on my own time or during the commute. Suck is gone and plastic is running on PayPal fumes. Will sites pony up? I'm sure sites like Salon would. But will Fox News or Yahoo pay Avantgo for their services? I asked the 8 Ball and it said "Without a doubt." We'll see.
We're From The Government, We're Here To Save Your Marriage [Plastic]
I think we need a tax break for the already happily married people to revive the slumping economy and to aid in the fight against evil doers and terror in general.
Pat Buchanan, The Voice of Reason?!? [Plastic]
You gotta read this. Not only the comments on plastic, but the article it links to. Holy crap. Like one plastician said, it's a scary time when Buchanan is the moderate...
Bush urges N Korea to open up. US President George Bush calls on North Korea to open its border to
South Korea and "free its people." [BBC News: world]
Go George! Free them to not be able to criticize the leadership! Oh wait, they have that now. Hell, we might as well make 'em a state!
US goes bust at record rate. Bankruptcies, both personal and corporate, hit record levels in 2001
as the slowdown hit home and consumer debt soared. [BBC News: world]
Don't worry! Military spending and tax cuts for the rich will save the day! [ Bonus points for pointing out exactly which falacy I just used. ]
The following was written in an email from a Friend of mine. I'm trying to get him into using Radio. He would be a weblogging monster...
--being Greg--
This was SFO. The bustle of that airport that I was used to is gone. Unless you are actually getting on a plane, you aren't allowed more than barely inside the terminal. The security gate is a veritible barricade. At least two, sometimes three soldiers are on guard as well as the regular phalanx of "screeners". Not much has changed in the screener makeup, although they appeared to be more alert. However the usual loitering and barely conceled boredom remain. To be frank people, the security at SFO appears to have been hand picked from Fry's employees.
As for the soldiers. These are regular Army and Special Forces troops. Not National Guard, at least not at SFO. There was at least one black beret on duty. All packing M-16's. One lady went the wrong way into the security perimeter and set off the alarms. One guy unshouldered his weapon before a screener arrived at the scene to turn the woman around. Usually, if the troops are just on for show, they shoulder the rifle with the business end up. These guys have them barrel down, ready to use.
Never a happy place, the airport is some weird surreal land nowadays. People getting off planes look generally worried. People getting on look understandably nervous. I am only used to seeing military on guard when in Mexico.
--end Greg--
A dispassionate tutorial on CSS from Apple, nicely done. [Scripting News]
The Apple Internet Developer site is very impressive.
Mac OS X 10.1.3 Available [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]
Download, install, reboot...
I posted a new story at pberry.weblogger.com.
Pentagon's New "Office Of Strategic Influence" - A Ministry Of Propaganda? [Plastic]
Hell...why not? Not like you should believe anything that comes out of the Pentagon anyways. The truth from the Pentagon is on a 30 year delay, that is until Bush extends the time limit for FOI requests, if he hasn't already.
Funny how they will do anything to keep the country "safe", but not "free."
Actually, it's not that funny at all.
Windows Code Ruling Called 'Cataclysmic' for Microsoft. Windows Code Ruling Called 'Cataclysmic' for Microsoft [TheFlangyNews News]
Whatever...I'm with Adam on this. It isn't going to amount to much if it ever happens, and it hasn't yet...
Washington puts Tyson on hold. BBC Sport >> *Washington puts Tyson on hold* Mike Tyson is facing an anxious wait to learn whether he can fight Lennox Lewis in the US capital. [BBC News: world]
Scrath that visit to the White House...
W. One of America's Greatest Presidents? [Plastic]
Yeah, and N'Sync is still popular too. Big deal. Stuff like this fades like Bush/Cheney bumper sticker in the hot summer sun.
You Too Can Bid on 'It'. Dean Kamen's hype-of-the-year invention, the Segway Human Transporter (formerly known as 'It' or 'Ginger'), is being auctioned off online. Bids quickly reached $10K. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
I guess I'm still pretty much alone in thinking "It" is a non-event. Oh well. It certainly won't be the first time.
Tyson gets licence in Washington. BBC Sport >> *Tyson gets licence in Washington* Mike Tyson's proposed fight with Lennox Lewis may now take place in the American capital. [BBC News: world]
But will get to stay at the White House?
This Modern World: Just read it. [ salon.com ]
Hrm, trying to track down some issues with the Manila mirroring tool...
espn.com: Dan Patrick writes about Apolo Ohno and how he didn't bitch and moan about getting knocked down right before he was about to win the gold because that is just how short track skating works.
espn.com: And the Glazer family, the butt of jokes for weeks now, got to moon the rest of the NFL and a media crowd that kept comparing the clan to the Three Stooges.
Good luck John. Watching the Raiders won't be half as exciting as when you were there.
Mac Fiends Who Live for Updates. VersionTracker is a Macintosh downloads site that can be addictive; some people visit the site every 20 minutes. Why is it so compelling? By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
Ha! I only check every 4-5 hours. Guess I don't have any mental problems... twitch twitch
rc3.org: Is anyone else getting the feeling that all of the Reagan era fossils that Bush has dug up felt at a loss without the Cold War and are getting pretty damned excited at the idea of a protracted, low level conflict with anyone willing to take us on?
Yup.
Evan Williams: "It's hard to believe there are people at Google who don't get the web." [Scripting News]
Last I checked google was a business. They must have MBAs in there somewhere. Is it so hard to belive it now?
NY Daily News: ...WSJ.com, which has 609,000 paying subscribers, will introduce a redesign on Jan. 28, said to cost $28 million.
[via zeldman]
Whoa... I'll take some of that to go please.
Based on a different interpretation of the facts, Bush comes across more as an ignorant, none too bright, smirking jerk in elevator shoes. And from where I see it, the world knows it, most of America (who didn't vote for him) knows it and sooner or later we'll all have to pay the price for this ludicrously inappropriate clown having more power than anyone in postwar history. If you want to hang your reputation on his, Mr. Horowitz, then good luck to you, but please don't ask the rest of us to join you in your sycophantic delusion. -- David Knopfler
Wow. Google is dead. This e-mail almost proves it. Big Co disease has hit them and hard. Time for another search engine vendor. Who's next? I can almost hear the lawyers drafting a "don't link to us" brief. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Me thinks the reports of google's demise are great exagerated. I doubt that was an answer the Dave's original post. That seems like it came from a grumpy admin. But then, I could be wrong...
HP Selling Systems With Linux [Slashdot]
I'm not dead yet. I feel happy...I feel hap thunk.
So mozillazine went to a css based layout finally. It renders fine in IE 6 and Mozilla (duh), but does some odd things in IE 5.1 on the Mac.
Now, those deep in the trenches shouldn't be shocked by this. But those that say this is why you should use tables are playing you for a fool. I know table layouts. I know that table layouts have just as many bugs as css based layouts, we just know most of them already and work around them as we code. Well, at least I do...
Excellent Hacks to the ReplayTV 4000 [Slashdot]
From a /. comment:
Ok, I have just one request. Someone hack these things to support Canada. It still boggles the mind that while TIVO supports the UK, they ignore Canada. I mean, it's more than just igloos and hockey up here, eh?
slatch.com: A review of Kent's new album, Hagesta Hill.
Cool. I actually found something I want to read through weblogs.com ;-)
osOpinion: "Thus, bragging about BSD's desktop share over Linux' might be likened to an individual bragging that he is the fastest downhill skier in all of Egypt."
Heh...now that is funny.
rc3.org: Rafe finds all the neat "crazy conservative" articles first...this one is our good, patriotic Ann Coulter talking about executing liberals, errr, I mean traitors so that liberals like myself will realize that we could be killed. Get it? Yeah, me either ;-)
rc3.org: Um, to all the people who think that just because Bush isn't a good public speaker, people should be down on him...read this.
Self-Shredding E-Mail [Slashdot]
There are some many mail programs out there, all with different ways of saving sent email and so many machines keeping logs of smtp traffic...I think it would be hard to do a good job of this. That is, good enough to be trusted.
Milosevic: West destroyed Yugoslavia. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic blames Western countries for the bloody dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. [BBC News: world]
Nice try Slobo...who was the one with the bright idea about mass graves again? Oh, that was you?
The Bullwinkle Defense System. Canada will use photo-sensor technology designed for the U.S missile defense system, aka Star Wars, to warn drivers that there might be a moose or deer on the road ahead. Charles Mandel reports from Canada. [Wired News]
The multi-billion dollar L.M.A.S. That's Large Mammal Avoidance System, but it's pronounced lŠ
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Blah, Blah, Blah and Blog. Weblogs are in the mainstream, with their stories being told in major media outlets, which in turn is creating a whole new generation of bloggers, for better or worse. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]
When I was teaching "Internet" classes at CSU Chico one of the things I told every class was, "The best thing about the Internet is that anyone can publish information, and the worst thing about that Internet is that anyone can publish information."
Calvin and Hobbes (link dead, premium accounts only): Wow. Bill Watterson can really hit you pretty hard some days.
I want to�������� represent the NFL season in XML. Here is a rough draft...
<season> <week weeknumber="1"> <game> <gamedate></gamedate> <awayteam></awayteam> <hometeam></hometeam> </game> </week> </season>
This is a preliminary release that has zero refinement beyond the keychain stuff and basic posting functionality.
Sweet...my first post using RadioServices...
Mmmmmmm, baked ziti.
I finally cooked some food. Yes, I do mean cooked and not just prepared. I've become very lazy lately and have been using a lot of boxed and frozen food. While it's nice that's it's quick and all, it just isn't as good. So today I took some time and grabbed a recipie off some cooking site and made baked ziti.
If I do say so myself, it was damn good.
Bush begins Japan talks. The US president meets the prime minister in Tokyo to discuss the
Japanese economy and the war on terror, as part of his tour of East
Asia. [BBC News: world]
...and said you are either with us, or part of the Axis of Evil. Well, not really, but I'm sure we would have loved to...
Bush Admin Shuts Down Sharing of Scientific Research [Plastic]
This is an American President?
Robb Beal: "Table-less CSS designs are for people with time to experiment, not for busy people shipping product for a diverse user base." [Scripting News]
If that were truly the case, no advances would ever be made. Somebody is going to make time to make sure their product takes this into account, and then you too will have to make time to make sure your product is on a competitive level.
Ken Bereskin is collecting dock collections. [Scripting News]
- Finder
- Mail.app
- IE 5.1
- System Prefs
- Quicken 2002
- BBEdit 6.5
- iTunes
- MSN Messenger
- Terminal.app
- iPhoto
- XDarwin
- Radio
- Applications folder
- Documents Folder
- Network Statistics dockling
- Trash
Whew...yeah, I have to keep it hidden and I've actually turned magnification back on. I liked it at first, then hated it, and now I'm back to liking it.
Is Bush Undermining Progress With Iran, North Korea? [Plastic]
"The duh heard round the world."
Salon: This article shows that even in the Israeli it isn't as simple as "us" against "them". Hopefully one day people will see that their governments are using them. Salon Premium warning.
Violent Video Game Protection Act [Slashdot]
What's next? The Parents Should Be Parents Child Protection Act?
Judge Says Microsoft Must Give States Windows Code [Slashdot]
Remember when Netscape released their codebase?
Axis of snobbery. Liberal intellectuals who praise Bush for prosecuting the war but still insist he's stupid are the real dummies. [Salon.com]
Wow. This is another one for Spinsanity to tear apart...
Powell's condoms comments draw ire. Secretary of State Colin Powell's remarks advocating the use of
condoms to prevent the spread of Aids spark a row in the US. [BBC News: world]
"Secretary Powell's remarks are reckless and irresponsible," said Family Research Council President Ken Connor.
Yeah, because if you tell people not to have sex, they won't. It must be nice to continually live in a state of denial...
A new CSS-based Manila theme: A Theme Apart. [Scripting News]
Ha...I beat them by a few months!
IBM Making A Play For Apple? [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Trivializing Web Standards. So I wasn't going to say anything about Dave Winer's war with the CSS zealots, especially now that he's planning... [scottandrew.com]
Scott rocks.
David Kurtz: "Just drink the kool-aid, ok?" Try again. [Scripting News]
I don't know. I read the whole thing and it seem well reasoned to me. Sucks that Dave only quoted that last line...
Canadian pair get gold. Winter Olympics 2002 >> *Canadian pair get gold*
Canada's Jamie Sale and David Pelletier are awarded a gold medal in
the Olympics pairs figure skating controversy. [BBC News: world]
So, why didn't the Russians get the silver then?
Die, NS4, Die!. A few things I've learned about Netscape 4 in the past 24 hours: 1) Common wisdom says Netscape 4 doesn't... [scottandrew.com]
I almost thought he was going to say, "...work". Which would have been funny. I live for the day when NS 4 is off the 'most support' chart. I'm not talking about breaking NS4 intentionally, but stop trying to make it do things it can't. If you can see read the information that should be good enough, right? The web has always been about providing information in a platform neutral way. This is why there standards were created. Now we (web monkyes) want to use these standards. Everyone bitches and moans when MS doesn't follow standards and yells that we shouldn't be forced to support their non-standard approach...well how about some fair play with NS4?
I don't see people still supporting Netscape 2.0 (often).
Axis of stupidity. Bush's black-and-white rhetoric fails to grasp the complexity of the world. It doesn't even reveal the truth about the darkness of Iraq.
Hrm, Salon Premium. Only $30 a year...and they now have Spinsanity stuff first...maybe it's time to pony up.
David Brown: Radio as a Python IDE. “The Python Tool allows Radio UserLand to be used as a Python IDE. Radio’s integrated outliner turns out to be a wonderful tool for Python editing, and the Tool provides an efficient way to write, debug, and deploy Python code.” [mac.scripting.com]
Heh, I bet beej would dig this if he could run Radio on linux (without using WINE). Although I doubt he would give up his favorite IDE...vim.
IBM GXP Problems: The Truth Exposed and Possible Fixes [AnandTech Web News]
Well, luckily I haven't had any problems. It would really suck to loose 120 gigs of mps...(yes, they are all legal)
SEC to Firms: Use Your Websites. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says it wants companies to put all their financial filings on their own websites, including records of insider stock sales. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
Can't I get all that on Yahoo! already?
Dave Dombrowski: "CSS won't buy you a great deal today. Certainly not in Radio where it's pretty easy to redo the pages it outputs. But CSS will buy you a ton in the years to come." [Scripting News]