Today marks six months of blogging. A milestone at which to pause and reflect. I’m still at the amateur level of blogging. I’m not sure if this is a professional blog, with all it’s links to interesting articles and utilities, or a personal one about painting the house and going to the beach.
The Rollcall web site had an interesting article on how Congresspersons are trying to sort incoming email from constituents. Have to remember to include my street address when ranting.
Joh Udall has another one of those tie-it-all-together pieces he is so good at.
Stopped by Gould Hill Orchards [updated link] to pick up a peck of apples. Beautiful views on a cloudless day.
— TWikiGuest – 17 Sep 2002
I accidentally closed the Moz main form and instantly lost 6 trains of thought, in the different windows. Sure would be nice to be able to save and restore them.
Moz has a security leak, although it looks like a low-threat one to me:
http://members.ping.de/~sven/mozbug/refcook.html
In corporations, innovation is driven by competition. AMD, the powerhouse for single-processor CPUs for a couple of years, has fallen behing the latest Pentium 4s, according to this article on Tom’s Hardware. Good. It will make everyone work harder to catch up.
According to news.com, Microsoft is getting a pass when the Bush administration reports on computer security.
Three windows primed for paint: 
Saturday. Great day working in the yard. Stripped, prepped and primed four windows along the street side of the house. These are the last of the house windows to get done. Three cellar windows remain and the trim will be – dare I say it? – done!
Cringley is at it again, with details here of his plan for a freely-distributable, GPL, compatible with any platform, TV for nerds series. With all this noveltie about the medium and its delivery format, I sure hope the content justifies the rumble.
The end of a year of mourning. It’s been a tough year. Tough for a lot of New Yorkers. Tough for the friends, relatives and loved ones of those lost in NYC, Washington and Pennsylvania. Tough for the Afghans. Tough for al-Qaida, but not nearly tough enough. A year of major governmental changes, changes I hope do not appear too severe in the long run. Impositions on civil and personal rights that worry me. A war on terrorism that threatens personal liberties, intellectual property and the true freedom to innovate.
The web site for http://www.zeoslib.org Zeoslib is an add-on for Delphi and Kylix that adds data handling capabilities to the low-end versions that ship without it. Instructions for packages like this are scary, as they tell you to download packages, ignore the attached installation instructions, and extract and compile stuff by hand. They don’t seem to consider that those instructions are a brick wall for a new user.
SlashDot did a nice remembrance page here and turned off banner ads for the day.
Profox list members insist that Torry’s List is a great source for information on Delphi and Kylix.
In this article, David K. Every explains what he thinks went on with Apple and NeXT?. I found it interesting reading. http://www.igeek.com/browse.php?id=1078
“Open Link in New Tab” was the option I hadn’t seen in Mozilla before. This allows Moz to have an MDI interface where you can toggle between multiple documents (like clicking a link to download while continuing to read a page). This is the feature I love about Opera, where I often have a dozen windows open – articles I want to go back and read, standard search engine pages, news pages, etc.
Jeffrey Zeldman gets great respect in some corners. His feature article, an excerpt from his book, was featured on Slashdot, where he was promptly stoned to death for claiming that the entire web is “obsolete” and that the One True Way is to use CSS to render all web features. I think he’s a little heavy-handed, and the response more so.
“Tyranny, Terror and Technology” are the theme’s of Ray Ozzie’s Weblog entry. The Netwars references sound interesting. Is the network a new form of cooperation?
Dan Bricklin, Mr. Spreadsheet, looks at the numbers the RIAA is claiming, and says they just don’t make sense in “The Recording Industry is Trying to Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg.” His conclusion: shutting down napster is hurting CD sales.
Peter Coffee hits the nail on the head with this column that says that we are not using the power of the computer to it’s advantage, but rather to bury ourselves in e-mail.
Wasn’t it Three D Graphics that created FoxGraph?? They still seem to be around and thriving.
— TWikiGuest – 11 Sep 2002