Archive for July, 2003

Kicking Microsoft in the Nuts

Friday, July 25th, 2003

Boy, Anil really socks it to Microsoft with his latest post — I wonder who pissed in his Fruit Loops this morning. He’s mad at Microsoft because of an old font installation dialog box that’s still lingering around in Windows 2003 Server. A hilarious read!

[image via Anil's website]
Hey Anil… don’t underestimate Microsoft’s font [...]

Dog Violence

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003

So, we were out walking our dog (Truman) around our neighborhood tonight. Nothing special… just a typical after dinner walk. Coming toward us was a lady with two dogs. The dogs looked like normal dogs (not sure what breed). As they approached, they slowed down and came to a stop in [...]

Geocaching: Pleasure Hunt

Thursday, July 17th, 2003

A great article about geocaching was published last Friday by the San Francisco Chronicle: Pleasure Hunt / ‘Geocaching’ buccaneers pursue hidden bounty throughout Bay Area as GPS-based game catches on. It reminded me that I forgot to log the caches we found up at Tahoe when we were there a few weeks ago. [...]

Mister Smarty… my other blog

Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

http://manalang.typepad.com
Well… not really. I’m testing out Six Apart’s new hosted blogging service called TypePad — which is in its second beta test round. So far, so good. TypePad is actually very cool. I’m impressed at how nice the user interface is. And underneath, it’s looks like it’s a highly tricked-out [...]

Netscape Browser (1994-2003) Died Today

Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

Today on mozillaZine: AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers
Hmmm… I wonder what this means for the remaining organizations out there that are still running on Netscape browsers. Hopefully, it means that software companies who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Netscape 4.x won’t have to do that anymore. Thankfully, the Mozilla project [...]