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Monday, December 30, 2002Band Bus@ 12 am | PermaLink"It is the very first incident of this kind I've heard of in Wareham," he said. "It's an aberration, I'm sure." Full Article As if! I'm sure most band bus trips are just as wild as the one depicted in this article where, "Five Wareham High School band members were suspended from school at the end of last week for "gross and lewd behavior" on a school bus returning from a concert..." I remember them all too well. It was one of the few times where I fell into the upper social eschelon: The Drumline. In our band the drumline was the top of the pile. Freshmen in the drumline ended up getting better seats than Seniors in any other section. It was strange. And I enjoyed it as well as an awkward high school percussionist could.
Tuesday, December 17, 2002Funny Titles@ 03 pm | PermaLinkSomeone should slip up on national television and introduce him as "Senate Minority Hater, Trent Lott" Previously, that same day...Scary Shrub@ 09 am | PermaLinkHere's an intersting take on Bush's verbal slips: He's sociopathic. "He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he's speaking punitively, when he's talking about violence, when he's talking about revenge. When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are fine," Miller said.
Tuesday, December 10, 2002Web Accesibility Guru@ 06 pm | PermaLinkWell, when it comes to disabled access to web sites, it's tough to argue with the American Foundation for the Blind's own information on Web Accesibility Tips. Of special highlight is the use of alt=" ", aka "quote space quote" as the best method to put an alt tag on an image used only for manipulation of a visual layout as opposed to the use of alt="" or the empty string or null sting alt.
Monday, December 9, 2002MacOs pixels per inch and the future@ 10 am | PermaLinkI wrote this and sent it to Macintouch for one of their reader reports on Mac OS X: "John Woo wrote: With OS X my eyes are constantly focusing and I notice it at the end of a day. After the end of an 8-hour day without fail my eyes will be sore and I'll be nursing a headache, despite frequent breaks for eye relief. I work a 6-8 hour day in front of a a pro 21" CRT at 1024 X 768 resolution. I can't imagine what life is like for those poor 12.1" iBook users. " Heh, heh. Those poor 12.1" iBook users are laughing all the way past the optometrist's office. We (I) love the screen because we're running at 1024x768 just like you, but because our screen has such a higher pixel density, we get *much* greater use out of the anti-aliasing because our screens are displaying 106ppi (Pixels per inch). Whereas your 21" monitor clearly shows the additional grey pixels required for standard black on white anti-aliased text, with my 12.1" screen makes them hardly noticeable. In fact, the pixel density of the smaller iBook shows just why certain visual attributes of OS X which people have complained about are really the direction for the future. Let's take the following trends into account:
Add the following facts:
OS X/Aqua complaint: "Anti-aliased text is blurry. I hate it." It maybe difficult to work with anti-aliased text at 72dpi, but come the future, your screen will be 106 or 150 or more ppi. Aqua points towards that future. OS X/Aqua complaint: "The icons, scroll bars are so big." Each of these issues are transition problems. OS X/Quartz/Aqua is built to support the future in this regard. Too bad it's built to support only the past when it comes to file metadata.
Saturday, December 7, 2002Structured Procrastination@ 03 pm | PermaLinkI my best moments I have practiced this. In my worst, I have forgotten it completely. Those who need me to do things could manipulate me quite easily with this sort of thing. Previously, that same day...The Art of Deception@ 11 am | PermaLink>>> When famed hacker Kevin Mitnick wrote his book on computer security, The Art of Deception (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), the first chapter was autobiographical in nature. It was included in the advance galleys that were sent to reviewers, but when the book itself came out, that chapter was not included. Someone posted it to Usenet, and "Kevin's Story" has spread from there. Mitnick has confirmed to Wired News that this is the lost first chapter.
Thursday, December 5, 2002Hide CSS from Buggy Browsers@ 09 am | PermaLinkI've mirroed the original Hide CSS from buggy Browsers pages which were here: pixels.pixelpark.com/~koch/hide_css_from_browsers/ and made them available here: ordersomewherechaos.com/rosso/webdev/hide_css_from_browsers/ Now when you want to find out how to hide CSS from any particular set of browsers, you can use these handy reference materials. Like I did earlier this week.
Wednesday, December 4, 2002The color of Parce@ 09 pm | PermaLink"In the meadow, we can build a snowman... Yes, up until 9th grade, I thought Parce was a color, similar to brown. It was about that time that I actually read the lyrics. I never really thought about why anyone would pretend that a snow man was a shade of earth tones... And we were all warned about yellow snow...
Tuesday, December 3, 2002Real WarDriving@ 08 am | PermaLinkNow that's a wireless driving set up. Amy and I were out last night. She and I drove over to my work because I forgot to send out an e-mail before I left. On the way back since I had my laptop, I opened up MacStumbler and we must have found 20 different access points in a 2 mile drive.
Monday, December 2, 2002Zoom Zoom Book@ 02 pm | PermaLinkI normally wouldn't post in the middle ofthe day like this, but i've just got to note for the record that adding 512MB to my 128MB makes my iBook very snappy, and me very happy. Now I'm able to switch back and forth between programs at a normal rate rather than the glacial speed I was at. Switching to Mail or IE when they did not have an exisiting window on the screen was excruciating. Now it's slightly noticable. Swithcing to the Finder when there are no windows open actually has the default window open so quick I didn't know it wasn't already open until I experimented with it. Finally I feel like I can breathe deeply and work in my digital space. Till now I felt like I was shoe-horned into this. Now it feels much better. The only "easy" upgrade I could possibly make to this machine internally now would be a faster hard drive, moving from 4200rpm to 5400rpm. But at $250 for the 40GB IBM drive, I think I can wait. My next upgrade will be Mac OS X.2, aka Jaguar, which I can get with my teacher discount at PSU for just $85.
Sunday, December 1, 2002French Screen Shots@ 01 pm | PermaLinkI never really expected to see a terminal session in French that intrigued me: escale.jpg However this one does. Notice the main Terminal window and the line that says, "Choix de la connexion". This is the line that lets you know that the you are to choose which method of connection you would like to your Netwon. OS X to the Newton via IrDA, TCP/IP, Serial, AppleTalk, or BSD Sockets. This is great. If only it: A) was GUI based, 2) had an Engilsh option, III) Finished, Omega) Released.
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