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Brent
Holy fark! Brent Simmons, the consumate good guy, is leaving UserLand.
He says he'll still be in the community, developing software for Frontier and Radio. Not only am I happy that he'll still be "near" (virtually), but I'm happy to see him doing what he does down his own path. That's exciting and I'm excited for him.
Congrats Brent!
RE: Brent on Script Meridian
On the Script Meridian community list, Brent discusses his future.
Way to go Brent!
A Matter Of Trust
Adam Curry: A Matter Of Trust
This is a really good piece. The quote below (without quoting the whole piece which I obviously will not do) doesn't do it justice, but I think it's powerful and it sums thinsgs up well.
I should say I have been trusting Adam Curry more as time goes on.
I finally have broadband! :)
You might recall that I didn't have broadband internet access the entire time I was in the Bay Area, and that I wasn't too happy about that.
Last night I moved into a room in Irvine where I'll be staying while I'm working down here. They have COX Cable Internet access, and 3 IP leases (of which 1 is for the room I'm in). I couldn't get it working last night, DHCP should have just worked.
Today I learned (from the previous tenant,who happens to be a co-worker) the cable modem agressively held the lease for his TiBook's MAC address (MAC addresses are unique IDs for ethernet devices... therefore, my IP was still reserved for his machine and his machine only). So we just turned off the cable modem for a couple minutes, turned it on, and BINGO! my new Linksys WAP/Router has a DHCP lease!
Woohoo! Finally, after 2 weeks short of one year since I first moved to California, I have broadband access.
Thursday, February 28, 2002
metaobject's frameworks
I found this page of Cocoa frameworks and related goodies surfing for something unrelated this morning. Perhaps there's something interesting in there for you.
iPod's undersold feature
You know when someone writes an article with a title of the form "have X, will Y" that I'll link to it. Especially when it's Apple-related! ;-)
Wired: Have iPod, Will Secretly Bootleg
The moral of the story: don't mess with Texas.
AEM notes from SZ
Steve Zellers "added a "story" with some notes for Carbon developers on the proper use of the AppleEvent manager."
Thanks Steve!
No sour Grapes
I just received a funny joke in my Inbox. Well, it's funny if you aren't easily offended. :-)
ozone ODBMS
I found this Java ODBMS called ozone today. The objects ALWAYS live on the server, you access them via RMI. It's open source software.
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Genetically Alzheimer's-free
Reuters: Genetically Selected Baby Born Free of Alzheimer's
As someone who has seen first hand how Alzheimer's disease ravages a person into oblivion, I can't see how it's a bad thing this child will never have that horrible affliction.
TFM for Mac OS X
Wicked. TFM for Mac OS X
As Nicholas said, now I can RTFM to my heart's content! :-)
Blues club in an old Amtrak station
Fabien Roy (a new co-worker and friend of former NetStruxr co-worker Jean Drolet) and I went to a blues club (with an open mic) in San Juan Capistrano last night. Fabien's a kickass blues guitarist, it was a treat to hear him play. There were a number of great musicians there last night, and one who'd had too much to drink and didn't feel like leaving the stage.
Just before midnight, these two teenage kids go onto the stage... a 14 year old asian boy with a black electric guitar and a 15 year old long-haired bleached-blonde kid (the grandson of the waitress) behind the drums. Man, did they rock. I couldn't believe what I was hearing out of that kid's guitar. He was playing various riffs and parts of different Metallica songs, and even some classic James Bond theme stuff, as well as, get this, some NES Super Mario Bros. soundtrack. LOL! After listening to blues and classic rock for over 3 hours I really appreciated some metal. :-)
Disabled man freezes to death
I was talking to Mike DeMan (another new co-worker) yesterday about the relative lack of homeless people in Edmonton as opposed to say, San Francisco. I mentioned that one reason there aren't as many homeless is they can't survive the winters... if they stay outside they freeze to death.
And then just now I see this story:
Edmonton Sun: Disabled man freezes to death
I hate to be right like that.
Henrico County sucks
timesdispatch.com: iBook: the revised edition
(clearing my throat, with Apologies to the late great Waylon Jennings)
Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be [sex-loving porn-viewing software-pirating genius-hackers]....
And even if they aren't we're just assume that they are, so that your kid won't grow up to be a porn star!
Mammmaaaa.... don't let your babies grow up to be.... trusted.
(takes a bow)
DSL vs. Cable
Jim Carroll: Reality check on DSL vs. Cable
Amen brother!
Jim Carroll debunks the myths about DSL vs. Cable, that either can get great, or suck, depending on where you live and many other factors.
Hey mom, read this one.
Morpheus users locked out
CNET.com: Music site Morpheus locks out users. I guess they CAN do it then. D'oh.
We index eevvvvverything
Okay I finally got around to reading this funny story that everyone's been linking to. (Funny if you're a geek)
diff and patch glue for Frontier/Radio
via Seth's site and Duncan's site:
Eric Soroos' Patch Tool for Frontier and Radio.
I hope Frontier/Radio users realize how important the introduction of this tool is to making the platform more viable for large scale development.
Thank you, Eric.
