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New user? Saturday, February 5, 2000
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Late night opinion: Why I like freed software -- this article might be good for anyone who considers themself an "open source fence-sitter".
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My thought for the day: I'm really really thankful to be a young webhead right now. Really thankful.
More personal reflection.... I collected comic books as a teenager. I had a LOT of comics. Like, over 2600 of them. I loved them, and at the time (the week before graduating from high-school), it killed me to sell my collection.
But, in hindsight, it was the smartest significant thing I had done up to that point! With the money, I bought my first "real" computer, a Mac LCII.
With that computer, I became re-obsessed with BBSs (my first obsession was on a C=64 with a 300bps modem card), and learned about and became obsessed with the Internet.
That led to the sysop of my favourite BBS convincing me to apply for the Computer Science co-op program at UVic instead of Civil Engineering at Camosun College. Which led to the career I have today, and my being very thankful for being a young webhead in 2000.
Thursday, February 3, 2000
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Via HTPP: A new plan for Fizzilla, Mozilla for MacOS X. I almost thought Mike Pinkerton was cool, until:
Why not base Mozilla on Cocoa (Yellow Box)?
No one wants to write in objective-C.
That's not a cool thing to say.
Yes, I like Objective-C... developing with Cocoa and WebObjects in Obj-C is like butter! 
A more truthful answer would have been "there's no point in not using the Carbon code for the front-end, since it works."
Unfortunately, Fizzilla is now tied to PPC hardware. When MacOS X for Intel comes out <cough> it won't be a straight port, unless they bring Carbon to OS X Intel.
I'm hoping now that the GNUstep people will create a GNUstep FE to Mozilla that could be used on MacOS X. Yes, I'm a dreamer!
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I just noticed this site is not on CamWorld's "Sites I read Often" list anymore... oh well. I was going to wish him good luck with his new job but he won't be reading this anyway.. I'll e-mail him instead.
Update: HBWT is back on Cam's list again. Cam assumed HBWT was dead, since I haven't been posting here much this year.
Still, the quality of HBWT pales in comparison to most of the sites on his list. If you're looking for new reading material, stop by any of the sites on his list you haven't been to yet, or recently.
Wednesday, February 2, 2000
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DVD is really pissing me off now. Update: Borders mean nothing, this doesn't just affect people in the USA! Even the Norwegian teenager who reversed engineered the CSS key has been arrested...
I only own one DVD. (At least I thought I owned it, I really only own the case it came in) I won't buy any more DVDs unless this is resolved favourably for the people, and I recommend you do the same thing.
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I've decided to extend the reach of yesterday's rant to those who speak Pikachize. Here it is. Why did I do this? I just don't want those little Pikachus to fall into the same trap.
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Today's album is american standard by Seven Mary Three.
Listening to that album invokes memories of a good time in my past - driving home from work on highway 21 (Alberta) in my old white 1996 Saturn SL1
, at about 140km/h, with 100.3 The Bear whaling away, my head banging up and down listening to Cumbersome.
Driving too fast, by myself, with music blaring is proof I'm a Basset Hound.
