This holiday break hasn’t felt very productive, but, if I accomplish nothing else, I’ll at least have my revamped laptop ready to roll. For Christmas, I got a new hard drive and more ram. So I’ve been installing everything from scratch. And the sheer numer of third party apps I need to make a Win2K [...]
I recently rediscovered internet radio. There’s some good hard bop on Dr. Horner’s Classic Jazz Corner. You can groove on old time radio suspense programs like Suspense and The Whistler on Knotted Note Radio. Our local student radio station KXUA is online as is local public radio station KUAF (I also enjoy WEMU, an npr [...]
GenJ is a geneology program done in Java. Nice GUI. Spits out gedcom files, html, and whatever else you might need.
Java Rules. A judge has ruled that Microsoft must include Java (the real version, not their nonsense version) in Windows. This is great news for Java developers (and would-be Java developers–like yours truly). It’s also great news for computer users in general, as deploying a Java app is quite a bit easier if the runtimes [...]
Seven designs to replace the World Trade Center. I haven’t had a chance to look at all of them yet.
Flash 5/Win Bug?
Well, it certainly looks like one. And I haven’t found anyone else documenting it, so I thought I might. You’ll have to click the thumbnail above to notice. I’ve added some red lines to point out the glitch, as it’s not obvious in a still. Compare both pictures at the line. What you’ll [...]
Cool interview with Rasmus Lerdorf, the guy who invented PHP, the language that makes me happy and pays my bills quite often.
A trippy article about Michael Jackson that does a good job of explaining, if such things can be explained, the sheer oddness of him.
I usually enjoy Charley Reese’s editorials. Our local paper carries them. I had never really pinned him down politically. I figured him for something of a moderate democrat, or libertarian. Mostly, I liked that he tends to argue a little more deftly than your typical syndicated newspaper talking head. Well, that all changed recently. If [...]
Mozilla 1.2.1 is out there. Haven’t had time to try out everything, but here’s one really cool feature for you tabbed browsing fans: you can now set a group of pages (rather than just a single one) as your start page. Very handy.
Interesting site from some kid in Virginia (I say “kid”; he’s 26, I think): scottdavidherman.com. Poke around and you’ll find some nice image galleries, absurdist experiments, and a tasty fan site for a graphic artist.
I’ve been coding up a site in XHTML 1.0 transitional (all my previous stuff had been 4.01 transitional) and found a [...]