When great magazines have god awful Web sites: The Oxford American
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August 3, 2001
BetaNews: Internet Explorer 6 in Final Stretches. The build they are talking about in the article is only four builds later than the one shipping with Windows XP RC2.
I’m now taking part in the maintenance of the blog section of webgraphics.
With everything going on with IIS and the Code Red worm, I was very surprised to see a measurable jump in IIS usage in this month’s Netcraft Survey at the expense of Apache.
TechTV | Judgment Call: Mac vs. PC My favorite quote from this piece?
"OS X is based on Unix and is probably more stable than Windows. Stability is an important feature that Windows just doesn't have. The average user can counter the instability by saving often."
Using Windows ME on my laptop currently, I watch in horror as my 384 Mb of RAM dwindles throughout my use. As the day goes on, the amount of free memory gets smaller and smaller regardless of what I am doing. Finally, I either blue screen or reboot. Since I switched to Mac OS X on my other laptop, the only time I ever reboot is when I have installed software. My Windows XP (now RC2) machine is a little better in the memory usage department. In fact, now that I have gotten past the hiccups I had, it has been downright stable.
Feeling better, but still coughing up a storm. Man, have I fallen behind this week because of my illness. I’m supposed to close on my house a week from today, so I’ve got a lot of personal stuff to deal with. Guess I’ll be working through the weekend.
August 2, 2001
This screenshot based listing of Weblogs is an interesting way to start the daily surf.
This quick article on the effectiveness of the pop under ad got me to really thinking about why they have become so popular so quickly when I know they don’t work and are a constant annoyance now. The answer is simple enough, people who generate their revenue from Internet advertising are desperate, grasping at anything that will make them money with no concern for the consequences. It’s clear that no one has figured this advertising on the Internet thing properly. It’s also clear to me that pop under ads are not the answer, nor are banner ads, or rich media advertising and I can’t see clearly what the solution is.
I spend hours a day on the Internet, surfing through content, news and reference materials. I can't ever remember, in the many years I have been doing this, looking at a banner ad and then clicking through to buy a product. To be frank, I don't even see the banner ads anymore, nor has making the ads larger and more intrusive increased my awareness of advertising in a positive way. Even on the page that the article appears on, I didn't acknowledge the ad in the middle of the article until I went back and looked for it. I can't really draw any conclusions beyond the fact that there is very clearly a void here, a business pain that is seeking a solution.
August 1, 2001
Turns out I have bronchitis and a sinus infection. I must rest, take drugs, and recover.
Arrgh. I have some sort of chest infection. Going to the doctor.
July 31, 2001
July 30, 2001
American Pie 2 is pirated on net before release. Over the last couple of years, I’ve wondered several times how Hotline, arguably the first peer to peer file sharing network by a few years, has escaped the attention that some other networks have gotten. Guess that will be coming to an end now.
I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Chuck Palhniuk’s Choke on Saturday. Both books were really good and worth your reading time. American Gods is a more substantial book fraught with nuances that I will go back and re-explore. Choke was amusing, while not nearly as ground breaking as Fight Club, it was certainly amusing and inventive in a twisted way that is in line with Fight Club’s general principles.
July 27, 2001
Dis adding video game, DVD to ‘Tron’ revival mix Yeah, bring me back some of that Tron!!