More than meets the dance floor

Posted by marshall Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:32:00 GMT

Breakdancing Transformers

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Indonesia Photo Gallery 2

Posted by marshall Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:46:00 GMT

I finally got around to sorting through the rest of the pictures, and have put up another 50:

The photos.

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Here it comes to save the day

Posted by marshall Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:28:00 GMT

August 2, 2005: a date that will be etched into that big silicon slab of computer history. It was the day many thought would never come. It was the day that thousands, perhaps millions of Mac users around the world shouted in unison: "FINALLY!" It was the day Apple broke with 21 years of stubbornness and joined the rest of the world in providing a multi-button scroll mouse. And of course, they had to get all cute on us and name it Mighty Mouse.

Like pretty much every decent mouse out there now, it's USB, it's optical, it has four programmable buttons, and and it provides a direct way of scrolling through a document using one's index finger instead of having to move the cursor to the scroll bars -- except instead of a scroll wheel, it's got a miniature embedded trackball that scrolls both vertically and horizontally. And the thing that's so beautifully devious to me is that if you didn't know any better, you'd still think it was merely a one-button mouse.

Suggestion is such a dangerous power. I have a perfectly good Logitech Bluetooth mouse, but it didn't take long before that little voice started. "It sure would be nice to be able to scroll this document horizontally," it said. "This Logitech scroll wheel sure feels erratic," it complained. "That sleek, shiny white surface would match my iMac much better than the Logitech gray," it mused. "I want a burrito," it salivated.

So yeah, I caved and bought one.

A Mighty Mouse, that is. Well, I also bought a burrito. But the mouse is what I'm talking about here.

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Three more reasons to hate Internet Explorer

Posted by marshall Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:15:00 GMT

Internet Exploder, Internet Exploiter, Internet Expletive...as if I need any more reasons to loathe it, today I was unhappily introduced to three more bugs. Well, not so much bugs as key portions of CSS that were defined seven years ago -- before the release of Internet Explorer 5 -- yet are missing from even the latest beta version of Internet Explorer 7.

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