Sunday, 30 June, 2002
Spent the majority of the day cleaning out the cellar.
Post dated 2002-06-30 00:00:00
Spent the majority of the day cleaning out the cellar.
Archive | June, 2002
Spent the majority of the day cleaning out the cellar.
Post dated 2002-06-29 00:00:00
Saturday, 29 June, 2002
Tim O’Reilly writes “While it may not seem so from this article, I’m actually a big fan of Microsoft. ” and many more interesting comments,in this article.
Post dated 2002-06-28 00:00:00
Friday, 28 June, 2002
TGIF. Extremetech continues the onslaught of information on Palladium. Cringely’s column summed it up the best: “The end is near.”
Open magazine’s latest issue is here.
Post dated 2002-06-27 00:00:00
Thursday, 27 June, 2002
Microsoft’s Palladium is the latest proposal in digital rights management. As an author, I welcome the ability to control the distribution of my document, but as a consumer, I am strongly opposed to anything that will restrict my ability to copy, merge, mix or modify software, paper, tape, CDs or bits. This is an infringement on my ability to do my job. “Personal use” is a principle and not a Constitutional Right, and it is being eroded at an alarming rate. Palladium is a heavy metal poison, a carcinogin, an element, the name of many theaters, a role-playing game and the protective statue that guarded Troy. Microsoft protected Trojans? It does make you wonder. Read more about Palladium here:
Stephen Levy writes for MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp
Slashdot goes crazy: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/27/125227.shtml?tid=109
More follow-up (cross-links from Slashdot):
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51780-2002Jun26.html
- http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html
Post dated 2002-06-26 00:00:00
Wednesday, 26 June, 2002
User group meeting tonight. I volunteered as substitute moderator for the early session, and to do the main session on Outlook.
Post dated 2002-06-25 00:00:00
Tuesday, 25 June, 2002
Found the best waiting room! While getting my car repaired at Saturn of Manchester, spent two hours in Barnes and Noble, catching up on 2600 magazine, Microsoft’s .NET books, Perl, Zope and Network+ books, and searching the bargain bins. Miraculously, I left the store empty-handed. However, the car repairs more than made up for it 🙁
Post dated 2002-06-24 00:00:00
Monday, 24 June, 2002
Once again used the marvelous and simple Web Services within Visual FoxPro to post and then update an entry on http://www.foxcentral.net. It seems that the Boston Area FoxPro Users Group has moved to http://www.bostonusersgroup.com/vfpboston.
— TWikiGuest – 24 Jun 2002
Post dated 2002-06-23 00:00:00
Sunday, 23 June, 2002
A cold, wet, rainy Sunday. Perfect to spend a few hours slapping together the rest of the HTML for the GIF version of EssentialSourceSafe. Done. Shipped. Used the Universal Document Converter to convert 432 pages of Word documents to GIFs, after using FoxPro to reformat and re-flow them, and then used FoxPro again to generate HTML wrappers for each of the images. Pretty cool!
Spent the afternoon on the phone with Whil, the publisher.
Post dated 2002-06-22 00:00:00
Saturday, 22 June, 2002
A totally brutal review of Apple’s new advertising campaign here on the Register.
Generated a GIF-formatted version of EssentialSourceSafe. Way cool.
Thought I had added a bunch more links here, but the editor must have gotten blasted away. Bummer…
Post dated 2002-06-21 00:00:00
Friday, 21 June, 2002
Summer Solstice! Sunrise: 5:07 Am, sunset 8:30 PM, for the longest day we get in these parts. Yahoo.
Spent the morning fixing up the EssentialSourceSafe PDF, using Adobe Acrobat. Cool program, although the interface was giving me some pretty inconsistent results, no doubt due to my unfamiliarity with the program. Never the less, I was able to produce a pretty nice looking TOC in about two hours.
- Happy anniversary Microsoft FoxPro!:
