Essay. “At the risk of being blogged under by many postings from the Jupiter weblog conference, I submit my thesis on weblogs: Copy-Paste Culture” from Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog
Archive | June, 2003
Pink ladyslippers in George’s Park
A wooded area adjoining my property, known locally as George’s Park, is town land that houses the town high school and ball fields. In the corner by my land, it is heavily wooded. A dozen pink ladyslippers, like the one at right, spring up this time of year. The New Hampshire state wildflower, it is an endangered species in several nearby states.
Opera 7.11
Testing interoperability of some web sites, I just downloaded, installed and paid the $15 upgrade fee for Opera 7.11. What a great browser! Well worth the cost – and I didn’t even have to buy an operating system to go with it!
Apple to demo PPC "G5" processors at World Wide Developer Conference
Watch for the bump in their stock as Steve Jobs once again kicks on his reality-distortion field. Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC? [OSNews]
Slashdot asks: Is Linksys Violating The GPL?
A disturbing question here: Is Linksys Violating The GPL? If true, am I, as an owner of the WRT-54G, an accomplice or victim?
I hope that LinkSys can be pursuaded to do the right thing here.
VFP and Perl: A winning combination
Leland F. Jackson, CPA posts yet another interoperability success story for VFP here. UPDATE: Leland points out that since Perl is using the ODBC driver, not updated for VFP since 6.0, there are a few limitations: no stored procedures will run, and 7.0/8.0 features such as auto-incrementing keys will fail, too.
Dishwasher interfaces ought not to be difficult…
AskTog: Multiple Mistakes Drown Interface. Yet another great column by Bruce Tognazzini. Read and heed. Link courtesy of Tomalak’s Realm
SCO woes continue…
SCO, Novell continue bickering over Unix ownership. “SCO says newly uncovered documents further prove its claims, whereas Novell says it has retained patent rights to Unix.” from Computerworld News. I wish SCO would stop beating around the bush are reveal what the problem is. Vendors who choose to continue using their code could pay them a license fee, and vendors who choose not to could stop. Of course, that might not advance the value of SCO as much. Perhaps we should start a PayPal fund to buy them out.
Home again!
Made it home in one piece, 7 hours door-to-door, after a long day of work. On impulse power only for today.
Travel day….
On the road again, 1500 air miles to cover 1000 great circle miles, with no change of time zones. Going home. See y’all tomorrow.