Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Goodbye Year 2001

In time I will learn to understand 2001. Right now I don't.

I hope 2002 is much happier than 2001, for my family, and those of my friends and everyone on Earth.

Happy New Year!

Scripting and Browsing Cocoa with F-Script

I wrote about F-Script here a long long time ago (message #45!). I mentioned it two other times.

But I still haven't actually USED it. sigh

Now I mention it a fourth time, this time after getting psyched reading Philippe's article on O'Reilly Net's MacDevCenter.

O'Reilly Network: Scripting Cocoa with F-Script

The article is over a month old! I hope it's new to you.

Now I'm going to read the next article about F-Script (this one is only 11 days old):

O'Reilly Network: Browsing Cocoa with F-Script

RE: Reality

I just went through this year's messages on my site, posted by me with the label "Personal".

It was interesting for me to see how the year unfolded. I talked about a lot more enjoyable times than I remember, and didn't talk about just as many unhappy times.

But this year is centered around 9/11. Before 9/11, and after, are two different lives, two realities. I was shocked when I read this posting, the last one before the world changed, poetically titled "Reality". Oh how little I knew of reality...

The line that really irked me was, "I have an unrelated deadline at the end of Tuesday, so tomorrow is going to be crazy-day."

Sigh.

Three Comedies

I watched Osmosis Jones, Evolution, and Rush Hour 2 yesterday.

All three movies exceeded my expectations, especially Osmosis Jones. I actually watched the movie twice, the second time with the commentary track... the first time I've ever done that, and it was great.

Girls return to school in Kabul

CNEWS: Kabul's biggest school for girls reopens

Yay!

LEGO Soccer

I was so thrilled when I got a LEGO Soccer kit from Cheryl and Cyan for Christmas this year.

Shane and I put it together right after everyone was finished opening their gifts. It's actually really fun, not just really cool!

Cyan got a LeapPad, which is just amazing. I still haven't figured out how the thing works (I have some ideas), so until I do I'll just concede that it has magical powers.

JBond gets it

Julian Bond wins kudos for understanding UserLand's viral mindshare / brainwashing strategy...

VoidStar: Open Source

UserLand's Reality Distortion Field (yet another RDF UserLand refuses to acknowledge) is so much bigger than Steve Jobs', it's actually funny.

How Islam Lost Its Way

I found this article on rc3.org. It's written by a Pakistani physicist named Pervez Amir Ali Hoodbhoy.

How Islam Lost Its Way

As Rafe says, it sums it all up.

Terry Jones is not impressed

Terry Jones (of Python fame, among other things), on Observer: I remain, sir, Haggard of the Hindu Kush

I think they've accomplished a little more than that, surely al-Qaeda is worse for wear, their camps having been destroyed and whatnot, but definitely, the amount of death and chaos brought upon Afghanistan, which was already in ruins and left as a giant mine-field, is just awful.

It's worth reading his entire article, IMO.

Smytty practices

Here's the latest in the Ryan Smyth ankle injury saga.

Edmonton Sun: Practice proves perfect for Smyth

Not bad... he's doing full practices after 6 weeks, when it was originally diagnosed he'd be gone for 10-12 weeks. He's marked Jan 10th as his return date, but it could come sooner. That's 8 weeks or less.