Archive for January, 2000

More Hits Than Usual

January 10th, 2000 Comments(0)

I received my quarterly annuity report from my retirement fund today and I was pleased to see that this time around I actually made rather than lost money. The company that handles the funds actually offers full web based account management, but I haven’t bothered to take advantage of it yet.

Ah ha! Mystery solved. Damien mentioned me on his weblog.

Whoah! Looks like we’ve had a huge surge in visitors today over what I typically get. That’s certainly cool, but kind of strange. I guess I’ll have to check my log files and see if they offer any clues.

Let’s Rip MOSR

January 10th, 2000 Comments(0)

This strangely bitter column in mymac.com ripping on MacOS Rumors strikes me as a little bizarre. I definitely read MOSR on a daily basis and although I find it useful and informative I have never been under the impression that it was completely reliable.

Fun And Football

January 09th, 2000 Comments(0)

Amusing Javascript fun for the whole family. Scroll down to the bottom of this page to play with the Magic Ghetto 8 Ball.

The Seahawks managed to lose by 3 to Miami today in a disappointing final appearance at the Kingdome. I’m looking forward to seeing what Coach Holmgren can do in the off season when he puts on his general manager’s hat. Judging by today’s performance he might start looking at beefing up the Offensive Line. Just a thought.

Weekend

January 08th, 2000 Comments(0)

Today has been fairly busy, but I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished a whole lot either. I guess that’s how the weekends go sometimes.

Mindvision and Wrist Cameras

January 07th, 2000 Comments(0)

The nifty MindControl application launcher from MindVision has definitely won me over. It’s basically a pop up command line for the Mac and besides launching apps it lets you run scripts. All for only $20. Don’t just take my word for it, Tucows gave it 5 cows!

Well, it’s not quite Dick Tracy, but it still sounds really cool. Casio is coming out with a black and white digital wristwatch camera. It will be able to store up to 100 images in the built in 1MB of RAM. Of course we can probably expect a color one a year after they release this one, so maybe I should hold out.

Rob’s Amazing Poem Generator

January 06th, 2000 Comments(0)

Rob’s amazing poem generator came up with this beauty when I submitted axodys.com:

Thursday,January Weblogs

Ether Life, Slashdot and More

January 06th, 2000 Comments(0)

Ether Life, another Internet comic that I like, is back for the new year with version 2.0.

Cmdr Taco and Hemos over at Slashdot tell all about going public.

Mindvision has a new application launcher out for the Mac called MindControl. I’ve been trying it out this morning and I have to admit that I like it a lot so far. I love being able to launch everything simply by typing in a few keystrokes.

Macintouch has a review of the new Apple iTools. They look fairly cool, especially for new users. Unfortunately they require MacOS 9 and I’m sticking with 8.6 for now (with MacOS X coming out this summer I’d rather spend the $80 on something else).

MacOS X Debut

January 05th, 2000 Comments(0)

The live webcast is working surprisingly well. I guess that Akamai network technology really works. The new iDrive technology is fairly intriguing. Looks like they’re going to be rolling out Mac OS X throughout the next year with sales starting during the summer (presumably around MacWorld).

Wow! MacOS X looks great! Makes me want to run out and become and Apple Developer so I can get the new betas later this year.

The only disappointing item in the presentation was that the Microsoft Rep sounded like IE 5 for the Macintosh won’t be out until the end of January. I guess their official press release will be in a half hour.

One new IE 5 feature that is definitely a good thing is that there is a mode to make pages render at the 96 dpi industry standard and end the micro font rendering woes that occur when reading PC generated pages. I noticed Mozilla build 12 for the Mac does the same thing a while back as well. Standardization is always a good thing!

MacWorld Keynote

January 05th, 2000 Comments(0)

I’ve successfully connected to the live web broadcast of Steve Job’s keynote. Boy, do they play some cheezy music while we’re waiting for it to begin.

I am really looking forward to the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer. Hopefully it will be released today sometime, rather than later in the week. I checked the Microsoft Mactopia, but there was no sign as of yet. Of course Steve Job’s keynote address isn’t for another half hour anyway.

Lest everyone think I’m a freakish Microsoft loving Mac user I should point out I’m also really looking forward to the next version of Netscape Communicator, although I wish it was going to be a standalone browser rather than integrated with composer and email. Mozilla build 12 is definitely promising and if the final product works better for me than IE I will make the switch.

Right now I prefer to use IE 4.5 for the Mac, but I’m forced to use Netscape Communicator as well because it works better with Blogger. Communicator also crashes more and seems to want use its own, older Java run time rather than Apple’s newer improved model (which IE uses).

Latest Penny Arcade

January 04th, 2000 Comments(0)

I enjoyed the latest Penny Arcade quite a bit, especially since my girlfriend has red hair too.

I played with Fireworks some this morning and managed to come up with my first animated GIF for the weblog ads at Scripting News. I really like Fireworks a lot. The drawing/painting combination is extremely powerful.

I also added the little script that pulls up random weblog ads and hopefully they’re appearing up in the right hand corner.

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