Interesting read at mozilla.org on browsers in general and Safari and Camino in particular: “Browser Innovation, Gecko and the Mozilla Project” by Mitchell Baker Gives a good picture of the current situation, with Camino HAVING the upper-hand in “rendering real web pages” (according to him) and Safari being the leanest. I fail to see why […]
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the US and UK administrations have little or no evidence to support their assertions that 1) Iraq has a massive arsenal of arms of mass destruction; 2) Iraq has ties with terrorists groups such as al-Quaeda. On Saturday, a report in The Guardian revealed that the “evidence” used […]
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A realisation today as I was working on yet another document created by someone else without “properly” using styles, bullets and numbering, etc. : if everyone used Word properly (systematic use of paragraph and character styles, proper use of tabulations, space after, keep with next/keep together options, etc.), then it probably would be a half-decent […]
More atrocious stuff from the afore-mentioned Andrew Sullivan, this time about the alleged “myth” that the US media doesn’t suffer from a major conservative slant: “What Conservative Media?“ It’s only when you actually get a real and open media market that conservative voices find a niche. The first problem is that what conservative Americans call […]
“Google’s Memory Upgrade“ If Google simply uses Blogger to UPDATE its database more rapidly, it won’t change the Web experience as we know it in any profound way. But a genuine trailblazing device would be a way of preserving — and widening — the paths that our lives have carved through information space. Sounds like […]
BBC News article posted on March 9, 2003: “Net pirates outsmart record labels “ Not a very good headline — since the article doesn’t discuss any of the technological aspects of peer-to-peer file sharing. But the essence of the article is clear: The record industry is losing touch, not just with the new digital form […]
Can’t believe that I missed this “manifesto” when it first came out. “Embrace file-sharing, or die“ It could be argued that MP3s are the greatest marketing tool ever to come along for the music industry. If your music is not being downloaded, then you’re in trouble. If you can’t give it away, you certainly can’t […]
PC Mag reviews the latest beta of Office 2003 for Windows: You can breathe a sigh of relief at the news that no new file formats are added. Unfortunately, Microsoft still hasn’t provided consistent keyboard shortcuts throughout the suite, so expert users who use F8 to extend a selection in Word and Excel will be […]
I finally got a reply from HMV.com to my complaint regarding copy-protected music CDs and the lack of information provided to prospective buyers: Dear Pierre, Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, since copy protection details are not solicited to us by our suppliers, we have no plans to advertise this information on our web-site. We […]
Finally got a chance to watch the “bonus DVD” that came with the latest Paul Weller album (Illumination). Paul Weller is a cool cat. He looks and sounds terrific on the live tracks (although he’s stretching the lower end of his vocal range with “Standing Out In The Universe” a bit). The promo videos for […]
My favorite job assignment on Word X has got to be what I spent one hour doing last Friday: cleaning up horrendously messy stuff created by other Word users using Word’s formatting features. That particular job included a series of tables supposed to outline the various components of a major project. The problem is, first […]
Want a sure-fire way to display ugly visual artefacts on your pixel-perfect Mac OS X screen? Try Word X: All I am doing is editing a very plain document with text in two different fonts… Deleting a line of text calls the text below to slide up… and that’s the result. Nice, uh? It keeps […]
My latest “Apple Peel” column is out (Analog Telephony and Mac OS X).
Exciting stuff at Highbury yesterday, with a frustrating, yet justified outcome. Early goal by the visitors. Doubtful penalty, superb save by the Chelsea keeper. Henry then hits the post at the conclusion of a superb movement. Domination increases, and the Jeffers goal is the logical, if unpretty, outcome. Then magnificent move by Henry and Arsenal […]