January 4, 2005
Peter David writes that Will Eisner has passed away from complications due to his quadruple heart bypass.
Most of you probably won’t know him, but the man was a giant in his field. One of the quotes attributed to him in PAD’s comments:
“Style is the failure to be perfect.”
January 4, 2005
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January 3, 2005
Yes!
We’ve just moved the entire site, including all archives (but not comments, which I archived separately) over to Tangelo. We’re live now, and I hope to rebuild the templates and add comments soon. BTW, you have no idea how much time I’ve spent in the past year policing my comments on Splitfocus. Comment spammers have flooded me with as many as 600 comments per day at times, and in fact I’ve spent more time cleaning up comments than actually writing for the site.
At any rate, Tangelo is a welcome breath of fresh air. Desktop publishing under my control–gotta love it.
January 3, 2005
Looks like I may be able to move over to Tangelo today!!!
More later if it works….
January 1, 2005
Here’s hoping that 2005 brings hope, love, and true joy to you all.
December 31, 2004
I haven’t read his column in a while, but he’s writing about RB here.
He makes an excellent point about DLL versioning too–it makes my Windows boxes eally unstable over time. And then when I have to eventually (and inevitably) reinstall Windows, MS is often nasty about activating it for use. If you’re going to make me jump through hoops to use your software, don’t make it so that I have to rebuild it from scratch so often.
At any rate, tangential mini-rant aside, there’s nothing like REALbasic anywhere, really.
One interesting quote from the article about RB’s steep learning curve:
“Pet peeve: While many people think a steep learning curve means something is difficult to learn, what the term actually means is that the rate of learning is quick, which ought to mean that it is easier, not harder, to learn. Steep is good. Tell a friend.”
Yep, RB rules. It’s one of my top three resolutions to keep using it this year for several projects.
[Update–Corrected the capitalization of REALbasic. I habitually and incorrectly capitalize the name of the language because I’ve seen other versions of BASIC that do that. I’ve apparently yet to break my conditioning. –Dave]
December 28, 2004
You have no idea how relieved I am to get this email from Joe, my brother. He was vacationing in Burma where the tsunamis hit. From the “JM wire” news service:
“Thank you to those who were asking if I am alive. The last travel plan I sent out had me on a ship headed north up the coast of Myanmar in the Andaman Sea on Christmas day. My alternate plan was to kick back in Phuket. Luckily entropy prevailed and I did neither.
The Sumatran Tsunami that hit Africa, Asia and Indonesia destroyed both and the death count is now up to 42,000. We are scrambling here to account for our friends who are in Thailand. I spent Christmas in Bagan with friends from Sri Lanka who are getting pieces of information on their friends there. Apparently the 500 mph wave hit and took out concrete buildings easily. Wow.
Sorry to not post earlier, The Myanmar goverment does not allow access to email and phones were down in most places. I am back in in Bangkok now waiting to get out to Manila. You can imagine the scene here.
Hope your holidays are going well. No doubt they were better than the coastal people here had. Now there is something to be thankful for in the coming year..
Happy New Year,
Joe”
December 25, 2004
Apparently the guy who was director of technology for Harrisburg was apparently ordered to return kickback stuff.
“Federal District Judge Christopher Conner ordered Weaver in October to forfeit about $1.9 million, plus two Chevrolet Trailblazers, a Chevrolet station wagon, a boat and several properties.”
Wow. How come I don’t get any kickback money? I mean, I’d have to refuse it, but if no one even offers me any then I must not be doing a good enough job…
December 25, 2004
My little shavers below had a great time, I hope you and yours did as well!
December 19, 2004
Gary Share is Microsoft’s director of product management for Windows.
Gary Share is the spokesperson for Internet Explorer in relation to the Firefox browser, which in a few months since its 1.0 unveiling has taken the world by storm, topping 10 million downloads and reducing IE’s market share below 90% and counting for the first time since, well, ever since it got there.
Gary says some funny things about Firefox and IE in this New York Times article (free reg required). He’s certainly arguing for the company product, IE.
But he doesn’t use IE himself.
From the article:
“Mr. Schare may be the official spokesman, but he does not use Internet Explorer himself. Instead he uses Maxthon, published by a little company of the same name. It uses the Internet Explorer engine but provides loads of features that Internet Explorer does not. “Tabs are what hooked me,” he told me, referring to the ability to open within a single window many different Web sites and move easily among them, rather than open separate windows for each one and tax the computer’s memory. Firefox has tabs. Other browsers do, too. But fundamental design decisions for Internet Explorer prevent the addition of this and other desiderata without a thorough update of Windows, which will not be complete until 2006 at the earliest.”