Archive for May, 2004

The Day After Tomorrow

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

If you’re on the Atkin’s Diet, you need to run to see the THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW because it’s packed *full* of cheese.

Who would have guessed climate change came with such melodrama? I’m embarassed for the actors just thinking of them having to recite some of those lines.

Lingua Franca & Freudian Slips

Sunday, May 23rd, 2004

On Meet the Press this morning Mr. Chalabi was in the process of calling US forces “occupiers”, but corrected himself mid-word to say “liberators”. Oops. (update - on review with TiVo, I can’t tell.)

Aside from this, I suspect non-native English speakers are often at a disadvantage in live interviews. However, who would wholly trust a translator? I’ve never heard a translator be corrected by the speaker they’re translating. Sure because it’s not a language they’re fascile with, but is there a checksum translator for the original translator?

Frontier going Open Source

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

According to eWeek: UserLand Frontier is going open source soon. Since it’s mostly a client-based system, will this really make a difference, especially with all the recent acrimony with SixApart’s Movable Type licensing?

Also, client software seems less likely to be taken up by the open source community, as you’ve got to master either operating systems APIs and have a OS developer’s kit or IDE to work. In this case (AFAIK) we’re talking MacOS and Windows, both which do have a learning curve. I’m also assuming since Frontier has been around a long time - I played with it in 1995 - that it’s not so groovy with Mac OS X Panther, etc.

As I’m advocating “a server on every desktop, a chicken in every pot” (ok, or a palatable vegetarian substitute), Frontier might be one of the ways that individuals, but more interestingly enterprises might take some of the technology and make a run with it. Done the right way, it might bump up against Groove or even Lotus Notes.

Mozilla Tips :: Fun tips for your favorite browser

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

This the first place I look for tweaking my browser: Mozilla Tips, and it’s run by some guys here in Austin.

Hello World!

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

print “Hello World!\n”;