It's probably going to be a slow couple of days here. I'm back at the redesign process and comitted to getting something up in the next few days.
Cam reports that XHTML 1.0 has been approved.
All of our local news agencies have been predicting a winter apocalypse for the last four days. Nothing even close to a real winter event has occurred.
It turns out that Jorn is having ISP problems. In the meantime, you can reach Robot Wisdom at [64.6.45.65/RobotWisd...](http://64.6.45.65/RobotWisdom/.)
Something that might interest people who want to link to a particular post on this site:
There is an anchor in each day's post with the date in six digit format(so today would be http://bumps.wpengine.com/index.html#012600). I put them there for my own use, but realized that, when Jorn linked to me last week, he had no way of going right to that particular day's entry because I hadn't posted this. They don't go back all the way to November 1997 because I haven't had the time to insert them all yet.
I have an Apple eMate 300 that I have used very little. I'm interested in trading it for a Newton 2100. If you know anyone who might be interested in negotiating a deal, please contact me.
Underoos to return .(via Unobserved Utterances)
This major label(BMI) sponsored site , in its Internet awards, honored the RIAA with its "Best Organization" award. This organization has done more to set music on the Internet back than any one other group thus far, how can you give them an Internet music award? Talk about bias. Let's cowtow to the big money's thugs. Oops, the winners were chosen by members of the public. Who voted for RIAA?
MacCentral is reporting a color Palm device about to be announced which is already in CompUSA's inventory system.
Is Robot Wisdom down?
Ask Jeeves acquires Direct Hit . This is a big deal in that Direct Hit has very next generation technology that is based on user interaction.
Bump Films (not affiliated) sells movies of wakeboarding.
It looks like there is a self-titled debut CD coming from a group named Bump on January 30, 2000.
I'm not fond of MacAddict's recent redesign . It's not very usable. Everything is all jumbled around. It also doesn't seem to render properly on the most recent version of Netscape for the Mac OS. It's especially evident how lacking it is when you compare it to the recent O'Grady Macintosh portal, Go2Mac.com . I wasn't happy about this site at first as a long time reader of The Powerpage, but I've warmed up to it as they have improved the design over the last month.
For some reason, I never noticed The Onion's archive page . It's at least an hour of laughing endlessly.
On the subject of ecards for unusual occasions and themes, Waferbaby, home of Pixhell has a great page of cards too.(Many of these are not appropriate for children, and if you are easily offended by sexual imagery, you might want to pass.)
As if no one learned the horrible lesson of DIVX, here's someone trying to do the same thing.(via Looka)
The Super Bowl is coming to town this week. I work about 300 yards from the Georgia Dome, so I'm sure I'm going to see some interesting things in our neighborhood this week. The first signs were giant ABC trucks getting off the highway en masse this week.
ArsTechnica has a good in-depth article on Crusoe.
This online store has some great unusual items for the odd toy collector.
I pulled an all nighter last night getting a coding project completed. In a strange way, I really like it.
Kevin Mitnick was released from jail today , but still must endure life without computers of any kind for three years.
The Inktomi Webmap has some great information on it.(via EatonWeb)
VerticalNet brokers a deal with Microsoft . Traditional business to business publishers had better take notice of this, they are quickly losing this battle through inactivity.
This kind of thing is the beginning of the end for the notebook computer. I know it's very expensive now, but it's no more expensive than notebooks generally were less than five years ago. I, frankly, want one. I especially like the fact that it supports portrait or landscape.
I'm seriously considering going to SXSW Interactive in March, but I'm also considering ThunderLizard's Web Design 2000 Atlanta in February. I doubt I could get time off for both, and it's a really difficult decision.
Barnes and Noble is working on a credit card that allows you to earn points towards books when you use it.
In case you live under some kind of technology free bubble, Transmeta announced their new processor today. It is x386 compatible and aimed at the mobile market.(Do you see a theme developing here?) Their first product to market is designed to run a special version of Linux and last for a full day on one battery charge. For an insane amount of detail, go to the Slashdot report .
I'm still quit.
The lack of updates over the last four days can be attributed directly to the installation of Quake 3 Arena on my home machine. If you smoke and intend to quit, you might find that extended video game forays help you take your mind off the gnawing sensation of your body weening itself from addiction.
Four days and still cooking along on the not smoking thing. I'd like to thank everyone for all of the encouraging emails. It's helped me out quite a bit, in fact more than once I got them while I was craving a cigarette and they encouraged me to push on.
It's been a very focused week at work. We're pushing a project out the door early next week, and we have all been putting in extra effort to get the development done. One of the aspects of this project is an edit interface, and coding it made me appreciate Manila all that much more.
It had to happen I guess, John Rocker now works for AOL .
I don't know how many of the same readers we have, but does anyone else use a Netscape browser to access Scripting News ? I get blank pages about 90% of the time with either Communicator 4.7 for Mac or Windows. It just started happening recently. It's one of those sites that I read often enough that I find myself firing up Internet Exploder just to read it.
MacCentral has an article today on the USB Kritter Cam from iRez. I got one for Christmas to go with my iBook, and have been quite pleased with it so far. I still haven't decided if I want cam type pictures of me up on this site though.
I started down a better path today. I'm quitting smoking. It's a nasty disgusting habit, and I want to be rid of it once and for all. I'm using the NicoDerm CQ patch. A little background: in 1997 I quit smoking after almost eight years. I succeeded and remained smoke free until 1999 when I broke down slowly. I made the mistake of thinking I could have the occasional cigarette without breaking. I then slowly spiraled back into the life of a smoker. I put the patch on this morning(I started with the 21 mg version.), and the first thing that happens is a really itchey feeling where you put it on. Now I'm feeling a little spacey, probably because it's more nicotine than my body is used to. I'm not craving a butt now, but I will as the day goes on. It's a wrenching feeling as your body craves the substance it's addicted to. What the patch does is allow you to seperate the two different aspects of the addiction and break each down as a unique battle. I'll keep you informed of my progress. Feel free to encourage me.
The Slashdot interview with Steve Wozniak was posted today. He shares his very perceptive opinions on a variety of subjects.
I'm pretty close to 100% after a brutal bout with the flu. I hate being sick, but when I get better I am always more motivated and focused than I was before I was sick.
The FTC nailed this company with all manner of spam oriented offenses. Justice.
There's a hilarious net based matrix spoof going on at this site . He adds panels every day.
I found Apple's Internet strategy announcement's today a little disappointing. The new services they are providing are far from remarkable or unusual. The only thing they did that I think is neat was to integrate the free drive space on their servers directly with the Mac OS Desktop. Since I've got mac OS 9 going on here, I signed up for the free services tonight. The Kidsafe service takes a better approach to keeping things safe for kids than other similar packages have, and the free Web page doesn't seem to be available right now.
Here's the screenshot from yesterday's Amazon flub.
It's that special time of year again for Mac users. MacCentral has pictures from setup day at MacWorld SF. One of them makes me think we may see Internet Explorer 5.0 for the mac tommorrow.
Jane and Ted, the closest thing Atlanta has to a royal family, are separating .
Macintouch is reporting that SuSe will be demonstrating a version of their Linux distribution for the Power Macintosh at this week's MacWorld conference. It's interesting to me, because it won my recent five distribution face off as the easiest to install(on my hardware) for Intel. I'm running it on my fast Intel machine at home right now. It would also mark the first major Linux distribution to have a Power PC version.
Update: SuSE has this press release up on their site now.
As a huge fan of taking naps, I was quite pleased with this article in today's New York Times.(Registration required.)
Bill Parcells retires. Bad day for Jets fans. Probably a good day for Mr. Parcells though. He read a great poem to his team yesterday which is published in the article. It's a good read in the beginning of the new year.
If you look at this page , you can see(until they change it), that Amazon.com doesn't know how to subtract.(Look at the list price versus their price on the first two items.)
Feeling a bit better today, but not good enough to make it through a whole day of work. I came home early and took a nap. Perhaps I'll be 100% tommorrow.
I spied Twernt in my referrer log, and I like it quite a bit.
MSNBC's top ten gadgets of all time . I don't think the electric hand dryer really counts within my definition of a gadget.
Somehow I missed this, and it's huge(for me anyways). News about Ender's Game: The Movie
Jack has returned and redesigned his site in the process. Cool.
I'm really ill. Seems that our out of town visitors brought some flu type germs with them. My fever is currently over 100.5 F.
It's eight hours later and I can't sleep, so I did some of the housekeeping that was due on this site.
Well, here we are, safe and sound, power on, phones working. I was prepared for the worst.
My New Year's wish for everyone is self examination. Look at the date at the top of this entry. It looks strange, doesn't it? We are at the start of something new as a group. A chance to wipe the slate clean and begin again. Here's your chance to look at yourself, and change for the better. I have great hope for myself.
The mullet getting some additional press coverage .
I went to see Any Given Sunday last night. I loved it, but I'm into the whole football thing. The Flash on the site is pretty good too. A friend of mine had told me earlier in the week that he thought it was Al Pacino's best performance to date. There were some great cameos in the movie, including Oliver Stone, the director, posing as a television announcer during the several games that were featured in the movie and Johnny Unitas as an opposing coach. A great cast including, besides Pacino himself, James Woods, LL Cool J, Jamie Fox, Matthew Modine, Cameron Diaz, Lawrence Taylor, and Bill Bellamy. A North Dallas Forty for the nineties with better undertones.
A beta version of Macster , a Napster client for the Macintosh, has been released.
My brother and his girlfriend just arrived from New York to celebrate the new year. Should be some fun going on here over the next few days. He's the first family member to visit me in Atlanta.
Watch out Apple, there' some powerful looking PowerPC machines coming down the pike for running LinuxPPC. This one , the RioRed, looks pretty badass.
Many others are pointing to it today (I found it at rc3.org), but the origin of a browser , about Netscape's evolution, is worth pointing to nonetheless. I remember all of it almost, except for the first couple of beta versions. It's amazing that this was only a few years ago because it feels like forever. I actually still have the retail boxed version of Netscape 1.1 with manual in original packaging. i've been hanging on to it for nostaligia purposes. Perhaps I'll scan the box and manual covers and post them. Any interest in seeing that?
New Sopranos Episodes to start January 16th
I'm really struggling with the installation of an Ethernet PCMCIA card on my Linux Laptop.(Red Hat) Anyone care to help me through this? The whole story: I've got a 3com Cardbus 575BT card, and the default PCMCIA support in Red Hat is installed. I added the card driver and the Card driver binding to the PCMCIA config file, and the notebook doesn't recognize the card at startup.
They've updated the site for The Lord of the Rings movies. It's even got some shots from the movie that look fantastic. I'm really hoping that they do this epic story justice.
You can pretty much(not surprisingly) forget about getting any decent domain names based on Lord of the Rings characters.
Gnome and KDE: One GUI Too Many? I like KDE better.
The new LinuxPPC site is much nicer than the old one.
Here's wishing you and your family a happy holiday in the true spirit of giving, generosity, and fun.
