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

My Spidey senses are tingling!!!

Web master - Fans sense massive hit for Marvel's Spider-Man

I haven't been this excited about a movie for a LONG, LONG time.

How to spell relief

In the morning my accountant told me I owed $2x in federal taxes and $x in California taxes. Later in the afternoon she told me she made a mistake in the fax she sent me with that info... it was actually $2x in federal taxes and -$x in California taxes!

The $x I still owe hurts, but not nearly as bad as $3x!!!

Huge H deposits in the Earth’s crust

Vancouver Sun: Huge hydrogen stores found below Earth's crust

I also read this NYTimes article which suggested that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (in Alaska) might only reduce U.S. dependency on oil imports by 4 or 5 percent within 10 years. So much for drilling in Alaska being the cure-all to U.S.'s problems with its oil interests in the Middle East.

Whaddaya know, it still works!

As I mentioned yesterday, I received a copy of dynAuthor, a Frontier suite I wrote over 5 yrs. ago. It's a multi-user web-based website editing and publishing environment for Frontier's Website Framework.

Version 2.0b1 was tested on Mac OS (8.x I presume), and Windows NT 4. It was quite a pleasant surprise to see it run without modification on Radio 8 on Mac OS X. Neither the app or the operating system even existed when that code was released. That's impressive... I guess the code was cleaner than I give myself credit for. Of course what's 10x more impressive is that Radio 8 for Mac OS X is so totally backwards compatible! Kudos to UserLand.

I still had to replace UserLand's copy of webServer.sendPartial with my own, since it was broken then and is still broken now, but that's no big deal since it's all but deprecated. dynAuthor is probably the only suite that still tries to use sendPartial. The only other thing I had to do was copy the CGI responder from an old copy of Frontier into user.webserver.responders.