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- sebastian_at_jawmail.org (Dec 30 2003) |
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- William A. Carrel (Dec 30 2003) |
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- dwr3ck_at_hushmail.com (Dec 31 2003) |
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- In a large field opposite Little Kit's Coty lies the natural outcrop of the Coffin Stone. We could see it clearly, but it was right in the middle of a crop of developing brassicas and we walked as far along the field edge as we could, but the light was fading fast and despite attempts I failed to get a decent photo of it. However, even from the distance from which we viewed it, it looked monumentally huge. |
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- 2003 web design fashion trends in review: background images, unordered lists, and css, oh my! |
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- Our latest update covers all the details of a slow-startup problem with the 10.3.2 Update; explains the 512-file issue with DOS volumes; resolves a cable modem problem; |
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- MultiMediaPhoto released its first Mac OS X version of Photomatix Pro, which extends the dynamic range of digital photos or scans by combining images taken with different exposures into a single new image. |
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- O'Reilly & Associates released Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther, which provides a tour of Mac OS X's Unix base for the uninitiated, including customizing the shell, managing files and directories, editing with vi, and more. |
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- Booxter manages book collections, with support for multiple libraries and book lists, book information from online sources, and handheld barcode scanners. |
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- Audio Hijack adds Mac OS X 10.3.2 support, fixes a bug with launching on Mac OS X 10.1, and makes other changes. |
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- The HTML editor adds a Code Snippets palette, a new syntax highlighting engine (HTML, PHP, CSS, Javascript), the ability to open and edit files of any type, and other changes. |
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- Here's a hack for reviving an iBook with dead vide, but try it only at your own risk! |
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- It looks like various web browsers fail to implement proper privacy controls for the Referrer field. |
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- AOL, a division of Time Warner, Inc. (NYSE: TWX), lawyers lacked details in filing a law suit in Virginia against a Florida group under the new anti-spam law after a federal judge dismissed it. |
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- Paul Petillo looks back at the year in the market pointing out investors' reluctance to face facts, while discounting the bad news. |
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- After establishing himself as the hotheaded liberal secularist pushing gay marriage, socialized medicine and higher taxes, it now seems that Howard Dean has found religion! |
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- It's still a while off, but Toyota's planning to introduce a new humanoid robot at the Aichi World Exposition in 2005 that will be able... |
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- It's still awhile off, but Toyota's planning to introduce a new humanoid robot at the Aichi World Exposition in 2005 that will be able to... |
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- We've had several reports of SW Basic Figures Wave 2 appearing on Wal-Mart shelves around the country. This wave includes Jedi Luke, Sail Barge R2, and R1-G4. If you happen to spot this or other new Star Wars toys on the shelves, be sure to help out your fellow collector by reporting your find in our forum! A thanks to Toymaster, Bryan, and Lord_Malic for the tip. |
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- The sign says twenty. Moth counted n-n-n-nineteen. Countless? I think not, baby puppy. Whatever the number they're certainly countable, though you have to have a very lively imagination to reconstruct in your mind the fabulous monument that this once was. |
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- TUCSON - An artful clock caused a scare in Tucson Tuesday. Police received a call from a person reporting something that looked like a bomb and was ticking. |
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- TUCSON - The recent deaths of two men believed to be undocumented immigrants brings the total number of such deaths in Cochise County to 36 during 2003, a spokeswoman for the county sheriff's department said. |
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- TUCSON - A former girl's youth soccer coach pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Combined companies would give marketplace more software choices. |
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- I'd like to give a BIG thanks to Robert for taking the time to drive three hours to our little plant in the middle of nowhere. He brought his Dad and Patrick along for the ride. It was nice to show him how stuff operates from our perspective and to hear a |
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- Parking precariously in the recommended spot, we squidged the 200 metres up the muddy sunken path to the top of the hill and there it was - looking as cute as a puppy dog's nose. With great views over the Medway valley, in spite of the murky weather, this little construction is rudely caged, with a fuck-off spiky fence reminding me of a fluffy chinchilla sitting inside razor wire. But look closely and you see why. The interior portal stone has been a honey pot to the graffiti bees. Mostly delicately ... |
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- Carol Shields was working on a new book when she died in July. Here, we publish an exclusive extract from... |
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- 2003: A good year for freedom. And, interestingly, for world peace, unless you're one of those ethnocentric types who thinks that only wars in which America is involved count.... |
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- 2003: A good year for freedom. And, interestingly, for world peace, unless you're one of those ethnocentric types who thinks that only wars in which America is involved count.... |
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- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web and director of the W3C, is to be knighted in recognition of his services to the global development of the Internet. Considering his achievements, Tim's an exceptionally modest man. He responded to the knighthood by commenting on what can happen to ordinary people who work on things that happen to work out, like the web. Congratulations, Tim, it's well deserved. I was expecting a knighthood in recognition of my services to whiskey drinking, but there's always next year. |
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- Larger iMac displays? New form factors for the Power Mac? An upgrade to iPhoto? Last year, you heard it here first, as RandomMaccess Publisher Chuck La Tournous joined Macworld's esteemed panel in offering a "Look at the Year Ahead in Macs." (Of course, he also predicted Apple would charge for iChat video conferencing, but why bring that up? |
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- The Hess Memorial Macworld Events list is back to "once again populate its page with press conferences, parties, author signings and user group gatherings," according to "Keeper-of-the-List" Ilene Hoffman. The list, now in its eigth year, covering 15 shows, was started by the late Robert Hess, and is the "only comprehensive source" of Macworld events, says Hoffman. |
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CT on LOTR (Dec 31 2003 18:42 GMT) - Christianity Today has a "special section" devoted to all things Tolkien. Among them, links to articles that analyize the cinematic adaptations through Christian perspectives. Among the observations in this one: Parents should be aware that The Return of the King surpasses Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and The Matrix Revolutions as 2003's most violent movie. |
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- I suppose I should have my own list of best and worst things for 2003. I haven't thought that deeply about the subject, so this is an off-the-cuff list Most over-hyped technology of 2003 Web Services What will be the most over-hyped technology of 2004 Web Services and .NET Biggest waste of tech effort in 2003 The Atom effort Best emerging technology of 2003 News Aggregators Worst technology news of 2003 The SCO lawsuit Best technology news of 2003 The slow realization that dynamic languages make a difference Sleeper Event of 2003 The emergence of blogs as guerilla marketing Like I said, it's an off the cuff list - not that organized, just a bunch of stuff that floats to the top at the moment. One of the interesting things for me has been how my workflow has changed over the last year. I'm traveling less often, but on longer trips when I do travel. |
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