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Archive, November 2001
Friday, 30. November 2001
Strange letter, Lemurzone interviews
[12:00 am]
I received a strange email yesterday.
What did you do before the Web?
How did you find the web?
What do you see as the greatest strengths of the web?
You can get some answers to this and some other crucial questions at lemurzone/pixelview - behind the screen with independent designers, developers and others.
Thursday, 29. November 2001
Ginger, Opera 6
[12:00 am]
Dean Kamen's latest, mysterious invention, known either as "Ginger" or "It", is to be revealed on national television next week. Will it happen?
Two weeks after its beta release Opera 6.0 for Windows is ready for download.
Wednesday, 28. November 2001
Jolene
[12:00 am]
I think I will create one Jolene Blalok Blalock page here. Why? Well just check my referrers and you will understand what I mean.
Google may let surfers rank search results.
I think that it would be great.
Tuesday, 27. November 2001
Afgan Girl
[12:00 am]
I couldn't resist to buy National Geographic's 100 best pictures edition. The cover is Steve McCurry's famous photo of a 12-year-old Afghan girl. The portrait first appeared on National Geographic's cover in June 1985. McCurry didn't speak the local language, Pashtun, and he didn't get his cover girl's name. But he did learn that she came from the Kunduz region of northern Afghanistan. His efforts to locate her during 10 subsequent visits have come to naught. He doesn't even know if she's still alive.
Monday, 26. November 2001
Hello World
[12:00 am]
Hello World!
I had no idea that there were so many different computer languages. Time to invent some kind of computer esperanto.
Talking about different languages, today's scribble entry made me think. "Diun mor"?! My translator or Google were not able to help me. But there are always Asylumites to solve the mysteries. It is apparently Kebreni Language.
Sunday, 25. November 2001
Uncontrol
[12:00 am]
Another cool flash web site - uncontrol.com.
The mixture of Math, Flash and mental ability can do miracles sometimes.
Saturday, 24. November 2001
Frog & Crocodile
[12:00 am]
Snapping up a frog, a Nile crocodile takes a small meal. I found this picture in National Geographic Magazine 100 Best Pictures. It was taken by Jonathan Blair. It suits nicely to my froggy site, eh?
Friday, 23. November 2001
Wireframe
[12:00 am]
The same people who gave us the fun to spank the monkey are giving us even more fun. This looks great.
Thursday, 22. November 2001
Mozilla 0.9.6
[12:00 am]
Mozilla 0.9.6 is out.
Among other new features Mozilla now displays page icons in the url bar (favicon). Read Mozilla 0.9.6 release notes to find out more about new stuff. It looks like we will get some competition after all. According to Mozilla Developement Roadmap we might expect the Version 1.0 in April 2002.
One of the best areas on Asylum!
Tuesday, 20. November 2001
Word HTML
[12:00 am]
Is there anything uglier then Word HTML document?
Ever wished to clean an HTML file created in Microsoft Word?
Then try Textism's Word HTML Cleaner. I wish I had this beauty a couple of days ago when I cleaned up about 10 HTML documents previously saved form an Word Document file.
Monday, 19. November 2001
Lorem Ipsum
[12:00 am]
What does "Lorem ipsum dolor" mean?
Sunday, 18. November 2001
Cell Phone
[12:00 am]
After so many years of decline, I got my first cell phone today. I have lived without it pretty good so far and I don't think it'll make a big change in my life from now on, but I must agree that it can be useful in many situations. I promised to myself right away that I won't make a public spectacle of myself and force innocent people around me to listen to foul-mouth conversations that they do not wish to hear at all.
Saturday, 17. November 2001
Google Designer
[12:00 am]
Google Designer. I wish.
Friday, 16. November 2001
Wanna have XP?
[12:00 am]
Wanna have WindowsXP? Great idea.
Reminds me a bit of yaromat's "Wanna be an Apple?"
No Flash or ActiveX required.
Thursday, 15. November 2001
Hiit counters are bad and ugly
[12:00 am]
If your boss/client asks you to put one of those "beautiful" hit counters on your company's page just point him to Amateur Web Sites - the Top Ten Signs.
DesignCity is powered by a group of enthusiastic people who bring their years of experience in web design and development to create new design community for professionals. Stayed tuned.
Wednesday, 14. November 2001
Strange
[12:00 am]
Tuesday, 13. November 2001
ID
[12:00 am]
Independents Day is finally up. I love it!
Opera 6.0 for Windows Beta released. At first sight it looks lovely!
Fake or real? I got 7 out of 10.
[via asylum]
Monday, 12. November 2001
Interesting articles; useful utility
[12:00 am]
I can only recommend - The World of Fonts. Make yourself a coffee or a tea, take a deep breath, and read it through. It is really interesting.
I just discovered sweet little utility IE StyleSheet Browser
This is an extension for Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5. It allows you to right click and bring up a list of stylesheets used by the page. From this list you can view the code, open up the stylesheets with your registered CSS application, toggle whether they are enabled/disabled, change them and add in new stylesheets of your choice.
With this thingy you can change my website completely ;-)
Saturday, 10. November 2001
Rogers Cable
[12:00 am]
Oh man, this is what I received today from my ISP:
Rogers Cable is making changes to its high-speed Internet service over the next few weeks. This transition is part of Rogers' commitment to take greater responsibility for the operation and management of our high-speed network. These changes will result in a better service, including for example, Web-based Email giving you Email access from anywhere in the world. Details on additional improvements to our high-speed service will be available over the coming months. To make these improvements, the following services will be affected during the transition: Email, Newsgroups, WebSpace, Member Services as well as the Excite for Rogers @Home start page.
I already expected Rogers to go its own way after the recent bad news about Excite@Home. Reading the FAQ page, there is one thing that I really dislike here:
The Rogers Internet network is dynamically based; static IP addresses are not issued. Your IP address can potentially be different every time you connect.
I want one IP like it has always been!
IE troubles again.
A newly reported vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer allows hackers to steal or corrupt cookie information on a user's desktop through a malformed URL at a Web site or in an HTML e-mail.
Friday, 09. November 2001
Britney Spears
[12:00 am]
Britney was in Toronto a couple of days ago. Fake Britney?
Thursday, 08. November 2001
New SELFHTML
[12:00 am]
I updated the refs page. It doesn't look so out of place any more. I hope.
Since 27 October SelfHTML 8.0 by Stefan Muenz is ready for you to download. New in this version is the section for XML-Programming. I am the happy one who can read and understand this impressive work. I am sure it will appear one day on English, but it will require lots of work.
Wednesday, 07. November 2001
Annoying ads
[12:00 am]
Did you see Pizza Hut add on Yahootoday?
Personally I find it very annoying.
Tuesday, 06. November 2001
bravest vs. finest
[12:00 am]
Made me feel like, . . . I don't know. Thanks Jeff.
Small penis web site?
Well, technique is what counts, they say.
Monday, 05. November 2001
Spank the Monkey
[12:00 am]
Wacom tablets are supposed to give great results in this game. My maximum was 565 mph, but I changed mouse acceleration and speed settings ;-)
Sunday, 04. November 2001
Lovely Saturday
[12:00 am]
Saturday is the only day of the week when Sofia and I have time to be together all day long. First we had a breakfast in a cute European style restaurant. It is really not easy to find those type of restaurants here in Toronto.
After the breakfast we felt like spending more money, so we decided to buy some kitchen stuff. We ended up buying a juice extractor. Finally I can make my own fresh squeezed juice. Small things can make us happy sometimes.
We had a dinner in "Il Fornello" restaurant. Their dinner looks and tastes much better then their web site. I ate too much but it was the beer that made me feel so fattened to a point of disgust. Next time I'll order a glass of mineral water only.
What a nice saturday.
Thursday, 01. November 2001
November 1.
[12:00 am]
All Saints' Day.
7th anniversary of my dad's passing.
Sofia's father's birthday.
Another rent to pay.
Another metro pass to buy.
Tantek Celik is a CSS guru well known for his box model hack/workaround.
I am honoured. Thanks!
I am getting many hits from here. I tend to misspell names. Sorry Miss Blalock :-)
