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Sunday, December 29, 2002
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 box useful is pretty amazing (Win98 is finally behind me. It truly might be the worst OS ever). So far, I've added (besides software for my scanner, burner, printer, and sound card) AbiWord, Acid, Mozilla, Enzip, FileZilla, Tera Term Pro and the ttssh extensions for it, Apache, PHP, MySQL, MyCC, JCDSee (a Java take on ACDSee), Java Media Framework (which lets JCDSee handle mpegs and such in addition to stills), Java 2 SDK, FreeRip, Cygwin, and FreeCraft (which lets me play my ancient version of Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness under Win2k).
If you're running Mozilla and need to get Flash and/or Java to play nicely with it, try this. Works like a charm.
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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 box useful is pretty amazing (Win98 is finally behind me. It truly might be the worst OS ever). So far, I've added (besides software for my scanner, burner, printer, and sound card) AbiWord, Acid, Mozilla, Enzip, FileZilla, Tera Term Pro and the ttssh extensions for it, Apache, PHP, MySQL, MyCC, JCDSee (a Java take on ACDSee), Java Media Framework (which lets JCDSee handle mpegs and such in addition to stills), Java 2 SDK, FreeRip, Cygwin, and FreeCraft (which lets me play my ancient version of Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness under Win2k).
If you're running Mozilla and need to get Flash and/or Java to play nicely with it, try this. Works like a charm.
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Saturday, December 28, 2002
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 station from Eastern Michigan University).
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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 station from Eastern Michigan University).
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Wednesday, December 25, 2002
GenJ is a geneology program done in Java. Nice GUI. Spits out gedcom files, html, and whatever else you might need.
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GenJ is a geneology program done in Java. Nice GUI. Spits out gedcom files, html, and whatever else you might need.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2002
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 are out there. I'm stoked. I really am. Best tech news I've heard in a long while.
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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 are out there. I'm stoked. I really am. Best tech news I've heard in a long while.
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Some fairly uncontroversial usability advice from Jakob Nielsen.
Because I keep forgetting to mention them, here's ar + d a nice architecture site and devarticles.com, a cool site for web programming advice.
I'm in the middle of rebuilding my home machine, so if anyone knows how to make the audio protion of a NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV play nicely with Windows 2000, email me. I found the right driver for it the last time I did this, but it doesn't work now.
And, of course, merry christmas eve to everyone.
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Thursday, December 19, 2002
Seven designs to replace the World Trade Center. I haven't had a chance to look at all of them yet.
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Seven designs to replace the World Trade Center. I haven't had a chance to look at all of them yet.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2002
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 notice is that the image, from the rightmost red line leftward, gets shifted about one pixel, just enough to make it seem to jog to the left. What causes it? Moving the alpha setting from 99 per cent to 100 per cent! You can really notice it in the yellow shirted kid's head and the arm of the kid in the top-left corner. It doesn't happen on every image, but I have found it on more than one.
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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 notice is that the image, from the rightmost red line leftward, gets shifted about one pixel, just enough to make it seem to jog to the left. What causes it? Moving the alpha setting from 99 per cent to 100 per cent! You can really notice it in the yellow shirted kid's head and the arm of the kid in the top-left corner. It doesn't happen on every image, but I have found it on more than one.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2002
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.
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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.
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Monday, December 09, 2002
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 this piece of tripe had crossed my desk when I was still teaching English for a living, I doubt it would have merited a "D." It's not a question of grammar. And it has nothing to do with my own opinions on the subject (here, SUVs). It's the tendency for over-generalization (e.g. "If the truth were known, they [liberals] had the human race [. . .]" or perhaps "All liberals are just gutless wannabe dictators."). The level of discourse in these sorts of pieces is why plenty of people now bypass the talking heads and read blogs instead. I'd expect this sort of nonsense from others, but I'd come to expect a bit more intelligence from Mr. Reese.
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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 this piece of tripe had crossed my desk when I was still teaching English for a living, I doubt it would have merited a "D." It's not a question of grammar. And it has nothing to do with my own opinions on the subject (here, SUVs). It's the tendency for over-generalization (e.g. "If the truth were known, they [liberals] had the human race [. . .]" or perhaps "All liberals are just gutless wannabe dictators."). The level of discourse in these sorts of pieces is why plenty of people now bypass the talking heads and read blogs instead. I'd expect this sort of nonsense from others, but I'd come to expect a bit more intelligence from Mr. Reese.
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Friday, December 06, 2002
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.
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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.
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Thursday, December 05, 2002
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 few useful resources that are best not forgotten: CSS tutorial (best I've seen), XHTML basics, ugly but useful explanation of doctype tags
Hadn't surfed dooce.com in a long while. Nice design (as always). Also noticed (via zeldman, I think) that one of they guys from panic.com has a nice blog
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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 few useful resources that are best not forgotten: CSS tutorial (best I've seen), XHTML basics, ugly but useful explanation of doctype tags
Hadn't surfed dooce.com in a long while. Nice design (as always). Also noticed (via zeldman, I think) that one of they guys from panic.com has a nice blog
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Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Last night, we welcomed into the world Abby and Grace, first children of my brother-in-law, Gary, and his wife, April. My wife has been giddy with anticipation of this day for a long, long time. This brings to three the number of birthdays we'll be celebrating on Dec 3rd (but I won't tell tales on the other birthday-girl).
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Last night, we welcomed into the world Abby and Grace, first children of my brother-in-law, Gary, and his wife, April. My wife has been giddy with anticipation of this day for a long, long time. This brings to three the number of birthdays we'll be celebrating on Dec 3rd (but I won't tell tales on the other birthday-girl).
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