March 2004
March 21, 2004
Netscape Toolbar for IE (via) AOL continue to rape Netscape’s corpse.
Eastern Standard Tribe (Wired November 2001) (via) The origin of the idea for Cory’s most recent novel?
Sports Illustrated’s digital workflow (via) 16,183 photos in just 6 hours.
Airport Codes: A History and Explanation (via) I finally understand why Kansas City International is MCI.
XP Service Pack 2 Review. Several welcome security improvements for those still suffering on Windows ;)
Zend PHP 5 Goodies
Zend have quietly released a veritable treasure trove of PHP 5 tutorials via their PHP5 InfoCenter:
[... 212 words]“I think he’s done a terrible job on the war against terrorism.” (via) Bush’s top anti-terrorism advisor... on Bush.
March 22, 2004
Kick! scores (via) I was on team 1.
Lockergnome Happy Ending. The moment this goes live I’m going to say lots of nice things about it.
Bush’s gay marriage ban: I’d leave the country, but my wife won’t let me (via) Powerful writing from Laura Conaway.
New Technorati beta launches. I’m still waiting for my “claim ownership” request to go through.
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (via) Sure to come in useful some day.
Google Search: winningest. Until today, I didn’t think “winningest” was a real word.
March 23, 2004
PyProtocols (via) Weird and wonderful method of adapting classes to interfaces at runtime.
Quicksilver (via) This is SO much cooler than LaunchBar.
Whiskey Bar: Out of the Loop. More fun at Bush’s expense. I love keeping politics in the link blog.
Pydoc
Pydoc is awesome; I don’t know how I missed it for so long. Simply type the following at the command line:
[... 96 words]March 24, 2004
IE enhancements in Service Pack 2 (via) From a Microsoft blogger who works on the IE team.
xhtmloutlines—Technorati Developers Site (via) OPML alternative built on top of XHTML.
Unicode: Dividing the world One Character, and Between One and Six Bytes, At A Time. (via) If you thought you had problems with unicode, you aint seen nothing yet!
I’ve been exposed. I’m still amazed that OS X lets me get away with this kind of flagrant abuse.
iwaskissedbyminjung.org Club (via) Bah, looks like I missed out on a great closing party.
March 25, 2004
Dijkstra paper in his own handwriting. “Why American Computing Science Seems Incurable”
Template engines:- PHP’s biggest joke. 50 now and counting.
March 26, 2004
Quicksilver
I found out about Quicksilver via Ted Leung a couple of days ago, and it’s already become an indispensable part of my OS X desktop. On the surface, Quicksilver is very similar to LaunchBar which I’d tried and liked but not enough to justify the price tag. LaunchBar lets you launch any application on your system by hitting CMD+space and typing enough of the name to highlight the application you want. Quicksilver takes the same idea but expands it to cover address book entries, iTunes playlists, documents, bookmarks and more. It’s incredibly slick, highly configurable and doesn’t cost a penny.
[... 173 words]PyCon 2004 SubEthaEdit notes (via) I couldn’t get to PyCon this year but the notes are excellent.
Kansas Legislature: Senate defeats gay marriage ban. Maybe Kansas isn’t so backwards after all.
This site uses “Fly-out” menus to increase usability. (via) The irony of this statement appearing on the “how to use our navigation” page is delicious.