Some details on changes in upcoming versions of Windows XP. Note the section concerning complying with the anti-trust court rullings (via bump.net). Here’s a question: how come no punative damages against Microsoft? If I were to steal a CD from the local Wal-Mart, I’d get punative damages and risk jailtime. But you can steal marketshare, [...]
April archives are up (at long last). Just bought Peter van der Linden’s Just Java 2 (fifth edition–for v1.4 of the JDK). Looking forward to devouring it.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, when I was just beginning to learn PHP and MySQL (and when I was getting fairly frustrated with outages [...]
A little press for wheatdesign: An article on stock photography in digital-web magazine features a screen shot (scroll down a bit) of the computing page at wheatdesign.com (to show how we use an image from iStockPhoto). Cool.
Other important news, the first part of what will ultimately be a full translation (into Russian) of my bassbook [...]
More debate on jimformation about the (lack of) value of weblogs, including this guest piece by bwg. I didn’t like the piece at first, as it begins by making a play to elitism, but if you read the whole thing, bwg actually supports the idea of blogging but also the idea of not taking it [...]
I’ve been playing around with new skins for Winamp and Mozilla. For Winamp, Quick Tune is the best I’ve found. It’s a pretty good cop of the Mac iTunes program. For Mozilla, Pinball gives a bit more color to the gray modern look and also uses less screen real estate.
Jimformation is back.
I saw The Man Who Wasn’t There today (official homepage). It’s one of the most moving films I’ve seen in a while. I’m not sure when I last did a movie roundup, so some of these may be duplicates: The Others (delightfully creepy), Thirteen Ghosts (probably not worth your time), Ocean’s 11 (solid entertainment), Mulholland [...]
Just so I don’t forget it: the designomatic (via inflight correction). Today, BTW, is my birthday (the 32nd one, but who’s counting?).
This past Thursday, in a marathon six hour session, Nancy recorded basic tracks (eleven of ‘em) for our forthcoming new album (as yet untitled). We should have the it done and out the [...]
Surfed Zeldman’s exit gallery today to find that assembler.org rides again (note the “xlat” subdomain). Also meant to mention that OpenOffice has reached version 1.x of it’s handy office suite. I’ve been using the speadsheet (Calc) and have been very happy with it. In terms of speed and stability, OpenOffice beats out its commercial counterpart, [...]
I checked out a two-DVD set called American Roots Music from the public library. It’s really great. It starts with spirituals and work songs, then spends a long time on classic country music before moving through folk, blues, and the early days of rock. I haven’t finished all of it yet (the final two episodes [...]
Big, stupid fun: whatsbetter.com.