Q: when / will there be the next version of IE?\ A: As part of the OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation. Brian Countryman: Microsoft TechChat (about halfway down) One of the banes of my existence is that people never […]
as the radio man says it is 5 a.m. and the sun has charred\ the other end of the world and come back to us\ and painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet Soul Coughing: Screenwriter’s Blues I’m not often touched by song lyrics. But Screenwriter’s Blues is a weird mix of thumping […]
I tweaked the rss files (.91 and 1.0) so they only contain the last five complete posts. So, if you get all of the last five posts in your newsreader instead of just this one, I apologize. I should be done playing for now. Why did I do it? Well, fifteen complete posts is a […]
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New Pictures!! Max has discovered some of the joys of yo-yo-ing. Why some? Because he can drop it like the best of them; getting it to come back up is the trick. This problem is compounded by the fact that the string is longer than he is tall (hence him standing on the dining room […]
After an extremely productive day (you have no idea – a complete redesign of a major product in less than 48 hours), I expected to come home and want to work. Ummm, nope. I took some pictures of Max playing with my old Duncan Butterfly yo-yo (which will go up tomorrow), showed him some old […]
On another topic, I’ve been reading a lot lately. We subscribe to a ton of magazines: Smithsonian, Utne (free with my Salon subscription – yet more reading), Premiere, and there are a couple others. I always read Smithsonian cover to cover, and here’s why (all from this month’s issue): The Nature of Cuba – which […]
I’m watching the Spurs/Mavs game, so this may end up chock full of basketball metaphors. Last week, I watched Revolution OS. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a documentary about the birth and rise of the free software movement and Linux. The film is full of interviews of such open source/free software luminaries as […]
Oh so many things to tell you about and no time to do it. In order to be prepared for the hopeful avalanche of content this evening, you should all go watch Revolution OS before tonight so we can discuss it. And you might want to read up on mushrooms, bad bad art and good […]
Yet blue, and I prefer them medium-sized and red. I mean the monsters. Weird, but really really funny. Make sure you do the voices in your head when you read it.