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New user? Tuesday, December 19, 2000
realMYST Mac
Thank you Wes, for this link:
Myst fans, watch the movie linked to from the bottom of that page. (drooool)
Canada stays debt payments
(link fixed, thanks Bradley!) CP: Canada stays debt payments -- "The moratorium lets most of Canada's poorest debtors off the hook for principal and interest payments. When they complete promised democratic reform and human-rights programs, the debts will be forgiven"
Whereas the right-wing Americans want to pull out peacekeeping forces and stop foreign aid. The USA must be bound by the Prime Directive of the United Federation of Planets or something.
(bring it on)
Erik's Weblog : The Truth is Out There!
Erik's Weblog: bookmarks2opml.pl
I love it! Years ago (back in 94 or 95) I developed and maintained a fairly popular utility for OS/2 called Ini2URLs. Before Netscape Navigator was available for OS/2, the only decent browser was called IBM WebExplorer. It was a great browser, for its time.
Its bookmark facility was called the QuickList, and it stored the list of URLs in a file called EXPLORE.INI.
When WebExplorer 1.1 came out, it introduced the "URL Objects" which people on Windows and Macintosh now know as URL Shortcuts (aliases). Unfortunately, WebExplorer still stored its QuickList in the INI file and didn't have a way to synchronize with the URL Objects on your desktop.
Ini2URLs exported (and later synchronized) your EXPLORE.INI into URL Objects. v2 of Ini2URLs included URLs2Ini which did the reverse process.
I think it's really cool that we're back where we started, and now someone has written bookmarks2opml, which does the same thing, but between IE's Favourites and Radio UserLand's outline format (OPML).
Why didn't I think of that? ;-)
PS: Ini2URLs was written in REXX. Version 3 also included a SOM utility object C++ DLL which the REXX scripts used to make the experience a little more user friendly. I'll attach version 3 to this message.... I found it from a web site by searching for Ini2URLs on Google.
XTND - XML Transition Network Definition
On my reading list: XTND - XML Transition Network Definition
Aaron rocks
When I see awesome weblogs like Aaron's aaronland, it makes me think... I wish that I had time to make mine as cool as that one (check out the DHTML effects, which is the ultimate extension to what I'm tried to do with my weblog item template), and get to the many other web experiments I've been dreaming of. (continued below...)
I got an FYI from Aaron this afternoon, to alert me to cool some new scripts he (correctly) thought might interest me:
Favorites::Convert.pm -- convert favourites lists into HTML, OPML, or XBEL.
opml2ft -- "converts an OPML document into a JavaScript file suitable for parsing by Marcelino Martins' FolderTree DHTML outliner (v2.0)."
Today must be data-conversion day on HBWT. :)
(now, to continue the first paragraph...) This year, I've spent my spare time getting fit and losing weight instead of learning new technologies and doing cool shit like Aaron's doing.
The result is, I'm much healthier, but I haven't been keeping up with changes in web technology. Next year I will seek to find a better balance between family, friends, health and my professional growth. (not asking for much am I?)
Monday, December 18, 2000
The Ad Banner is Dead
The Ad Banner is Dead! Long Live the Ad Banner!
It seems like the number of popup-window ads that hit my screen is doubling every day. I'm not sure what I find more annoying yet, ads that popup when I go to a site, or when I leave it.
We've gotta pay for all this crap somehow, right?
(Yes Wes, micropayments are the way it should be... :-))
If Only Bowling were More like Hockey
(AdCritic) Fox Sports: If Only Bowling were More like Hockey (QuickTime required)
also...
Fox Sports Turkey, Fox Sports India, Fox Sports China, Fox Sports South Africa and Fox Sports Russia
If only Fox Sports was half as good as its commercials.
Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts
RE: Canada stays debt payments
Not surprisingly, today's debt forgiveness thread has become quite interesting. :)
Saturday, December 16, 2000
RE: Poll, Should Jim to to MacWorld?
I don't think I'll be going to MacWorld SF this year, even though I really want to. There are a number of boring reasons that I'll spare you from reading. I have until tomorrow to make a final decision, but I don't think it will change between now and then.
Thank you to everyone that participated in Friday's poll. It really did help!
