Archives for August, 2002
2002.08.27 (Tue)
Clouds Over Shinjuku
16:58 | Comments (1)
Summer’s not giving up without a fight and it’s brought in the big cumulus as muscle. They were just…
Mummy Power Redux
16:58 | Comments (2)
Back in March I posted an entry called Mummy Power in which I quoted Nicholson Baker from his then recently-released…
Farewell, Happy Mac
16:58 | Comments (10)
An icon is dead. For as long as any of us have been using Macs, the Happy Mac startup…
The Wonderful and Infuriating Mail.app
16:58 | Comments (3)
A week ago I set up Spam Assassin which required me to move to Apple’s Mail.app which can (or could)…
2002.08.26 (Mon)
Snaguar with Jaguar
16:58 | Comments (0)
Well, I’m Jagged (and loving it) but the installation didn’t exactly go smoothly. I used the Archive & Install option…
I Don’t Know What Hit Me
16:58 | Comments (0)
Quite a weird cold I had, or bug or whatever it was. Legionnaires’ Disease maybe. There was an outbreak in…
2002.08.23 (Fri)
TrackBack and Validation: Getting It Straight
16:58 | Comments (2)
Tomas made a good comment in response to my last post. I said TrackBack “seems to break XHTML validation” to…
2002.08.22 (Thu)
TrackBacks Break Validation?
16:58 | Comments (1)
Uh-oh. Slight problem with TrackBack; it seems to break XHTML validation: TrackBack Development One of the issues with TrackBack currently…
Setting Up Trackback
16:58 | Comments (1)
Made some moves tonight to get TrackBack working here. Ought to finish things up tomorrow. Movable Type maintains a TrackBack…
2002.08.21 (Wed)
Mushrooms May Help Fight Cancer
16:58 | Comments (0)
The headline makes it sound like psilocybin is the magic ingredient here, but it’s not. The mushrooms in this story…
Midori Nakayama is a good swimmer. Really good. She’s in the top 10 worldwide in her Masters age group for…
Pismo Out in the Cold?
16:58 | Comments (7)
MacFixIt ran mail from someone trying to install Jaguar on their Pismo which they’d bumped up to 768 MB of…
2002.08.20 (Tue)
Wile E. Coyote C’est Moi
16:58 | Comments (2)
Over about 30 minutes in the middle of the afternoon yesterday I was struck by some sort of bug. I…
Macros in Movable Type
16:58 | Comments (6)
I have an unspeakable envy of people like Brad Choate whose MTMacros allows you to run macros through Movable Type…
2002.08.19 (Mon)
MS ‘Web Fonts’ Pulled
16:58 | Comments (0)
On the eve of LinuxWorld Microsoft pulled its free ‘web fonts’ (Verdana, Georgia, et al) citing one bizarre reason –…
Warstorming
16:58 | Comments (0)
This has already been slashdotted, but I post it here in the local-boys-make-good category. Some blokes from my home town…
2002.08.18 (Sun)
More Fireworks Pictures
16:58 | Comments (0)
Pictures from the Tamagawa fireworks festival
Tamagawa Fireworks
16:58 | Comments (9)
Looking like something out of a biology textbook (Plates 1–9: the miracle of conception) the montage above shows a…
2002.08.16 (Fri)
Competitive Athlete
16:58 | Comments (0)
“Competitive athlete” was never, ever a phrase I thought would apply to me. On Saturday August 24, however, it will…
The Last of the Spam?
16:58 | Comments (3)
Hoo, boy. Now that I’ve installed Spam Assassin, I’m really going to miss things like this. One Mr. Rotime Williams…
Spam Assassin
16:58 | Comments (0)
You probably know that Ben Trott of Movable Type fame has written a set of instructions for installing Spam Assassin…
2002.08.13 (Tue)
Reports of Japan’s Death…
16:58 | Comments (5)
…may be greatly exaggerated. But then again, you never know. Recent Japan punditry reminds me of the parable of the…
Thin Pills?
16:58 | Comments (6)
Fatproof drug revealedsmh.com.au US researchers have found that suppressing a particular gene allowed mice to eat fatty foods without gaining…
2002.08.08 (Thu)
The Wild Blue Hither
16:58 | Comments (1)
Skies don’t get any bluer than ours was today. In the morning whisps of cloud hung on the southern sky…
I Swerve for Rabbits
16:58 | Comments (7)
When driving through the countryside in Australia, I’ll swerve to hit rabbits or foxes if I think it’s safe to…
A Friend in Need Indeed
16:58 | Comments (0)
Jerry Kindall points to a New York Times article on Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. Just who is C.M. Coolidge? Does the…
2002.08.06 (Tue)
Spam Poetry No. 5 (I think)
16:58 | Comments (2)
No More Pop-ups! Cloth tags Keep this one extra quiet!!!…
Eldred vs. Ashcroft
16:58 | Comments (9)
The improbably-named Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was signed into law by Bill Clinton on October 27, 1998….
The Miraculous Becomes Mundane
16:58 | Comments (1)
A recent post about watching “Spider-Man” garnered some good comments about the prevalence of computer-generated imagery and effects, a lot…
Remarkable Achievements of the Bush Administration, No. 425
16:58 | Comments (1)
To say that Bush and the grownups he’s surrounded himself with have some serious problems is something of an understatement….
2002.08.05 (Mon)
Real Mac Freaks
16:58 | Comments (0)
A couple of stories on wired.com look at people’s, um… devotion to Apple: Tat’s the Way Mac Heads Like It…
This little test is being posted from Kung-Log, an application which allows posting to Movable Type sites without having to…
2002.08.03 (Sat)
Photoshop Therapy
16:58 | Comments (7)
Do you ever make up improbable GUI elements when you’re bored? Come on, tell the truth….
Film Criticism – Or Something Like That
16:58 | Comments (3)
Regarding Stephen Soderbergh’s new film Full Frontal, the critics are apparently unanimous: Stephanie Zacharek in Salon: Julia Roberts and David…
2002.08.02 (Fri)
Brunelleschi’s Dome
16:58 | Comments (0)
I’ve been pretty curmudgeonly lately, posting lots of bad news of greed and human inadequacy, so it’s high time…
Image Worries #2
16:58 | Comments (0)
The 1.1b release of Mozilla does not exhibit the image problem I mentioned earlier, so maybe it is a 1.0…
Intro to Anime
16:58 | Comments (2)
Lai Lai Boy has written a decent capsule introduction to anime over at Kuro5hin.org….
2002.08.01 (Thu)
Image Worries
16:58 | Comments (0)
I’ve noticed that some of the images I’ve been posting recently don’t seem to show up or, if they do,…
Is Ian Thorpe Human?
16:58 | Comments (2)
With the Commonwealth Games happening in Manchester, the time has come to ask an important question: is Ian Thorpe…
Living Long Beats Living Large
16:58 | Comments (4)
Eat fish, tofu, rice and vegetables (and don’t forget the seaweed). Go easy on the starchy carbs, red meat and…
Izumi Tamagawa Fireworks
16:58 | Comments (6)
I love fireworks. We rode our bikes down to the Tama river tonight to see the Izumi-Tamagawa fireworks. Pyrotechnics…
• • •
