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Thursday, March 1, 2001

Designweenie

James Spahr redesigns and moves his site from www.spahr.org to Designweenie.

If you had his site in your weblogs.com favourites you need to re-add his site, because the name of the site is the primary key for weblog records [sic] in the weblogs.com "database".

His site name in weblogs.com is:

designweenine (was spahr.org)

Note that once James removes the "(was spahr.org)" from his record's name it'll break your list again.

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I'm glad I reminded him :-)

This morning I noticed UserLand is working on "M2B" which means email-to-your-blog. I reminded Seth Dillingham that he had done 90% of the work towards that feature in mid-2000. He took an hour to polish it off and now it's working!

In fact this post made it here directly from my email outbox.

This was relatively easy to do in Conversant because every Conversant site already has a built in two-way mailing list.

When Macrobyte post docs onto the support site I'll link to them here.

Update: Seth says it was even closer than 90% done. "Oops"!

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Henso.com

Henso.com is a weblog written with a framwork on top of Hop, an "open source, JavaScripted, object oriented web application server developed mainly by Hannes Wallnöfer".

Hop has been on my list-of-things-to-learn for so long now it's getting ridiculous.

I want to learn like Neo. Shit yeah.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Apple evangelist makes IBM move

Apple evangelist makes IBM move

Interesting timing considering my comments yesterday.

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EARTHQUAKE!

Update: Ruth says it was 6.2 just south of Seattle!

Update: Andrew says it was 4.7 here in Victoria. Easily the strongest I've felt.

Holy crap!

We just had an earthquake in Victoria!!! (at 10:55)

It wasn't severe, but it shook my office something fierce -- my monitors were swaying on my desk...

Right after it happened, Andrew, who works downtown AIM'd me:

"did you feel that??? :-("

Initial CNN report

Bigger CNN report :-)

Geological Survey of Canada site

Brent's report

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Initial version of OS X to lack some 'goodies'

Initial version of OS X to lack some 'goodies'

"Ken Bereskin, the company's OS X product manager, told MacCentral that DVD playback won't be initially available. He also noted that, although X versions of iTunes and iMovie are in the works, they "probably won't" ship on the March 24 OS CD."

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Thirteen dead in rail tragedy

BBC News: Thirteen dead in rail tragedy

"It was caused when a Land Rover pulling a car on a trailer came off the M62 motorway where it crosses the East Coast main line, and slid down an embankment onto the tracks."

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Top Stories at Netscape.com

Limitless Source of Repair Cells Comes From Fat

"Scientists said on Tuesday a virtually limitless source of cells, from human fat, can be turned into cartilage, offering a good supply of repair materials for people with damaged joints."

Life is not without a sense of irony. With all the fat around my gut my knees should be back in top shape in no time! ;-)

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Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Death of Newton + 3

Grant is still waiting for Apple's smooth transition from the Newton to Mac OS-based products.

Thanks for the reminder of the 3rd anniv. of the NewtonOS' execution, Grant. My MP2100 and eMate 300 are still alive and kicking. And the Palm IIIc I bought in November (regretting it) sucks steaming piles of donkey doo-doo in comparison.

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75,000 sudden citizens

CNN.com: New law will make 75,000 sudden citizens

Wow! Amid all the bullshit going down in DC there's actually something positive happening too!

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In the Beginning was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson: In the Beginning was the Command Line

Not new, but I was thinking about it earlier today and figured someone hasn't read it yet. :-)

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Envelope/Letter patterns from the 20th century ;-)

Wed, 9 Feb 94: Envelope/Letter patterns -- Booch, Gamma, and more!

Wow, great find Andrew!

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Berard ends comeback attempt

Leafs defenseman ends comeback attempt -

"Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Bryan Berard has given up on returning to the NHL following a severe eye injury."

Bryan was hit in the eye with a stick on March 11th of last year. Not even 25 and already retired.

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Fizzilla

A new build of Fizzilla is available!

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Dive Into Python

Dive Into Python

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IBM's rack-mounted PCs

IBM to stack PCs, sardine-style

"Intellistation R Pro is only 1.75 inches high, allowing it to be plugged into a rack with up to 42 other machines. The rack can be located in an out-of-the-way area, according to IBM. Thus, the only desktop hardware required -- aside from displays, keyboards and mice -- is a small box that connects to the remote workstation."

Rack Mounted PCs, the Transnote notepad-notebook. And they say Apple is innovative? Gimme a break.

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The Relentless March of Computer Abstraction

xml.oreilly.com: The Relentless March of Computer Abstraction

"Ultimately, we can reach a point where a particular Web site's metadata is so rich that an agent can visit the site for the first time, and, by examining the metadata, understand the services and act on them without the intervention of a human being. And won't that be a nice turn of events?"

(nodding head...)

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openadaptor

I've been meaning to point to openadaptor.org for a while. Maybe I did, I can't remember.

I wrote an openadaptor-like system last year for a customer of OAAI. It was very cool (IMHO) and openadaptor is too.

The system I wrote is becoming more and more central to their systems. If you're looking for a way to integrate your systems, take a look at openadaptor.

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What a tangled web I weave...

Was surfing the web today when I found the WebObjects page on the c2.com Wiki. I found it from the What's Wrong With EJB page on the c2.com Wiki. I found that on Lambda the Ultimate which was linked from More Like This.

I also noticed Bill Humphries saw my post about WO URLs on Feb 10th of More Like This. I disagree with his opinion but won't bore you with my reason... yet.

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