Archive | July, 2002

Post dated 2002-07-21 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 21, 2002 in Home Page

Sunday, 21 July, 2002

Happy Birthday, Anne. My baby sister.

Spent the day working on the screen restoration for the home I’m starting to think of as “The Bungalow Project.” I can’t approach the million dollar restoration of “This Old House,” or even hope to be featured on “American Bungalow,” but I’m hoping I can make this a better place to live.

Midday, Steve and I saw “K-19: The WidowMaker” Great flick. War heroes, the Russians on the first nuclear sub. Well done. As a former bubblehead, had my adreneline flowing.

Post dated 2002-07-20 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 20, 2002 in Home Page

Saturday, 20 July, 2002

Worked on restoring the original porch screens on my Arts & Crafts Bungalow. Not an easy task.

Signed up for, and downloaded, the SOAP API for both Google and Amazon. The Amazon one required complex, multi-string data types, and I haven’t worked out how to send those just yet, from VFP. More experimentation tomorrow.

Post dated 2002-07-19 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 19, 2002 in Home Page

Friday, 19 July, 2002

TGIF. Cringely at his best in this column, telling us that Palladium ain’t gonna work and isn’t what we want, anyway.

Microsoft’s Gentler Approach to Linux is the claim of this article. Actions speak louder than words. We shall see.

The MSNBC article on Palladium has been archived here.

I discovered that IAYFT.com hasn’t been registered. Hmmm.

Ars Technica published this “blackpaper” on wireless security.

Forbes is publishing a special report on Linux.

Post dated 2002-07-18 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 18, 2002 in Home Page

Thursday, 18 July, 2002

Thursday. The weeks go by strangely in the summertime, without the usual mad rush of user groups.

Digital Consumer is another site fighting the poorly-thought-out, over-reaching efforts of the music, movie and tech industries, in controlling piracy by crippling our fair use.

This Seattle Times article details the lifelong avocation – violin collecting – of Dr. Dave Fulton, the genius who ran Fox Software and sold it to Microsoft. [Ed: original article lost. Here’s an update on the collection: Highly successful violin collector finds that it’s time to let go

Post dated 2002-07-17 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 17, 2002 in Home Page

Wednesday, 17 July, 2002

Steve Jobs presented a two-hour keynote at MacExpo?, NYC, this morning. Jaguar, OS X 10.2, a new .Mac set of services on the web – pundits say it competes with .NET, but I see it more as a portal. Gotta learn more. The new iMac has a 17″ 16:10 screen ratio machine. Very pretty.

Post dated 2002-07-16 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 16, 2002 in Home Page

Tuesday, 16 July, 2002

Designing a New Version Control System was a very interesting topic on SlashDot today.

Microsoft fights Apple with FUD. There’s a surprise.

Steve Jobs delivers the keynote tomorrow. Should be a good show.

Andy Kramek pointed out this handy Win32 resource for VFP Developers in a posting on CompuServe.

Monday, 15 July, 2002

By Ted Roche on July 15, 2002 in Home Page

Are Mac users smarter, richer and have less cavities? This article thinks so. They may be right. I like the iMacs. The idea, the design, appeals to me.

Darn! Lost a bunch of links and good prose.

http://www.bugbaffler.com

http://nightheronmusic.com
Ross Anderson’s Palladium FAW
Wired’s article on Palladium

Post dated 2002-07-14 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 14, 2002 in Home Page

Sunday, 14 July, 2002

Quiet Sunday morning. Built a CD of drivers for installing my sister’s wireless network Tuesday – all Linksys. Spent the afternoon cleaning, prepping and painting storms and screens on the house.

Fortune features BillG in a noxiously fawning article.

Spent the evening on Part 2 of PBS’ and Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Delightful movie, for a chick flick. Scored big points with SO for staying awake, too!

Post dated 2002-07-13 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 13, 2002 in Home Page

Saturday, 13 July, 2002

A glorious day. Hot, but not too humid, with a nice breeze and plenty of sunshine. Spent the day cleaning out the garage.

Spent the evening on Part 1 of PBS’ and Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice.”

Post dated 2002-07-12 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on July 12, 2002 in Home Page

Friday, 12 July, 2002

TGIF.

from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,368868,00.asp:

“Microsoft Readying ‘Avalon’ Framework for Longhorn
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has promised for years how Windows will allow consumers to access “information at your fingertips.”

With Longhorn, the next version of Windows due out in 2005, the company will take its first serious stab at delivering on Gates’ vision. ”

Where do these journalists get off? IAYFT was a decade ago, a lame promise come and gone unfulfilled, up there with “user friendly.” It was followed by equally unmet though less memorable phrases. What a crock.

Harvey Reid, a local guitarist of great talent, explains what ASCAP and BMI are here.

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