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Archive, December 2001
Monday, 31. December 2001
Sarma!
[12:00 am]
We've just received a fresh photo from Belgrade taken by Kremba.
New year's eve yugoslavian way.
Be careful with the photo though, it is a real appetizer. Too bad there is no way to send this delicious sarma (translation: wrap-around) to Toronto (or am I wrong?), I can almost smell it here.
Have a great 2002!!! See you there soon.
Sunday, 30. December 2001
Natasha
[12:00 am]
We saw "Natasha" yesterday.
Since I've got a new digital camera, photos section is extremely needed here.
Saturday, 29. December 2001
Google Zeitgeist
[12:00 am]
What was hot and what was not in the year 2001?
Nostradamus was the most requested man in this year.
Britney Spears the most wanted woman.
Google Zeitgeist.
Friday, 28. December 2001
Happy B'day Sofia
[12:00 am]
Thursday, 27. December 2001
Ivo Andric
[12:00 am]
Ivo Andric was the only writer from former Yugoslavia who got the Nobel Price for the literature. He was a very mysterious person and a great writer (that's why he won the Nobel Prize silly me . . . ), but I don't think this enigma will ever be revealed. What does he have in common with the VEP apparatus? I don't think we know too much about his sexual life. Seriously though this is really sad.
Here is what he had to say about the city where I was born:
Whoever lies awake at night in Sarajevo hears the voices of the Sarajevo night. The clock on the Catholic cathedral strikes the hour with weighty confidence: 2am. More than a minute passes (to be exact, seventy-five seconds - I counted) and only then with a rather weaker, but piercing sound does the Orthodox church announce the hour, and chime its own 2 am. A moment after it the tower clock on the Bey's mosque strikes the hour in a hoarse, faraway voice, and that strikes 11, the ghostly Turkish hour, by the strange calculation of distant and alien parts of the world. The Jews have no clock to sound their hour, so God alone knows what time it is for them by the Sephardic reckoning or the Ashkenazy. Thus at night, while everyone is sleeping, division keeps vigil in the counting of the late, small hours, and separates these sleeping people who, awake, rejoice and mourn, feast and fast by four different and antagonistic calendars, and send all their prayers and wishes to one heaven in four different ecclesiastical languages. And this difference, sometimes visible and open, sometimes invisible and hidden, is always similar to hatred, and often completely identical with it.
Wednesday, 26. December 2001
Red-eye Removal
[12:00 am]
Red-eye removal tutorial is a try to escape the holiday laziness and to revive my howto section at the same time.
Monday, 24. December 2001
Christmas time
[12:00 am]
Happy Holidays everybody!
Sunday, 23. December 2001
Mozilla 0.9.7
[12:00 am]
Yes I missed it. Mozilla 0.9.7 is out.
We watched "Being John Malkovich" yesterday. What a great movie. We had fun. Last night I was looking for summaries and critics of the movie and found the entire Screenplay.
We bought something yesterday. I am not going to tell you what it is, but you will know that as soon as I add the new section here called "photos".
Friday, 21. December 2001
Favelets
[12:00 am]
I love those sweet favelets provided by Tantek.
Fix your Windows, says Microsoft.
Microsoft has admitted that the newest version of its flagship Windows operating system - touted as the most secure ever - has yawning security holes.
Thursday, 20. December 2001
Seen Michael Douglas
[12:00 am]
Here is what I like about Toronto and being Torontonian. Today we had a good lunch in a nice italian restaurant called "Caffino", and guess who we saw there, Michael Douglas! No his wife wasn't there.
The power of photographs. Photojournalism 1980-2000. [via asylum]
Wednesday, 19. December 2001
Slime Volleyball
[12:00 am]
vitez-koja, don't give me such a headache anymore ;-)
A True Story.
Tuesday, 18. December 2001
Fear of flying
[12:00 am]
I have fear of flying. I would like to travel everywhere but there is always that thought in the back of my mind. I have no idea how I managed to overcome my fear during the flight to Canada 3 years ago. I think now I would feel worse because of the September 11. Next year we will be visiting Portugal and Spain and I already now think about the airplane. Is it just me?
Take a look at Flight404 and you'll know what I am talking about :-)
Monday, 17. December 2001
Crystal Clear Lady Finger
[12:00 am]
Amazon.com used to sell books only, but now that time is over.
Crystal Clear Lady Finger ($19.95). Usually ships within 24 hours.
I will be interested to read customer reviews :-)
Sunday, 16. December 2001
Learning Java
[12:00 am]
I ordered the book "Computing Concepts with Java 2 Essentials" via Chapters. It should be delivered in the next 7 days they say. This book is required reading for my next course that starts in January. Java is a hard topic to cover, I'll have fun I suppose :-)
It's been almost two years since I had "Thinking in Java" in my favorites. Time to take a closer look at it.
Friday, 14. December 2001
IE Patch
[12:00 am]
Microsoft released a security patch to plug a hole in its Web browser that could allow hackers to steal passwords and trick people into downloading virulent files.
Thursday, 13. December 2001
Zeldman's reply
[12:00 am]
We all have people we respect very deeply. You can imagine how one feels when receiving an e-mail from one of them:
> appellation=Sasha
> at=sasha at cluedesign.com
> home_at=http://www.sashadesign.com/
> my_thoughts=Hello,
> I saw Whitman's page you just posted and thought mine is worth mentioning
> :-)
> All the best to you
> Sasha
your site is brilliant.
very clever and subtle details as the designs change.
lovely.
thank you for sharing.
jeffrey
--
z e l d m a n
now in pulp for your pleasure:
TAKING YOUR TALENT TO THE WEB
http://www.zeldman.com/talent/
daily: http://www.zeldman.com/
weekly: http://www.alistapart.com/
as needed: http://www.webstandards.org/
design & consulting: http://www.happycog.com/
BTW, Whitman's page is a Michael Barrish's creation in homage to both Zeldman and Whitman.
[Early today]
How to arouse a virgin? :-)
Wednesday, 12. December 2001
Happy B'day WWW; IE vulnerability
[12:00 am]
Oy Online Solutions Ltd's security experts have found a flaw in Happy Birthday, WWW!
Microsoft Internet Explorer that allows a malicious website to spoof file extensions in the download dialog to make an executable program file look like a text, image, audio, or any other file. If the user chooses to open the file from its current location, the executable program will be run, circumventing Security Warning dialogs, and the attacker could gain control over the user's system.
It's not known whether a patch is going to be produced. Microsoft is currently investigating the issue.
Tuesday, 11. December 2001
My Cat Allergy; Google Groups
[12:00 am]
We had a nice party tonight with people I like but after an hour and half it was over for me. The party was in a house where a cat lives and I am allergic to cats.
New! Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 700 million messages dating back to 1981. We believe this to be the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account.
You have to check it out!
Monday, 10. December 2001
Stupid Journalism
[12:00 am]
Or, Bin Laden stupifies journalists.
Sunday, 09. December 2001
Computers do lots of stuff
[12:00 am]
- Don't cache the page
- Choose user's style preference
- Choose user's type preference
- Set page title variable
- Open a text file with the quotes
- Pick a random quote
- Close the text file
- Add 10 empty lines
- Print HTML comment with the quote
- Add 50 empty lines (like it makes me cool)
- Log visitor if first time, needed for refs page
- Load all HTML tags
- Load basic JavaScript file
- Load CSS file, depending on user's preference
- Figure out what I meant with all that CSS crap
- Load the main image depending on CSS skin
- Load 14 more images
- Open the database, read two tables
- Figure out some date commands
- Display results from the data base
- Close the data base
- Figure out some date stuff again
- Load navigation include file
- Send the page to the user
And this is just a rough guide of what is happening behind the scenes. Sometimes I am amazed how much a single computer can do in a couple of seconds.
Saturday, 08. December 2001
Photoshop Tennis
[12:00 am]
One of the observers said:
Oh man . . . I think even my grandmother will want to watch this match.
DocOzone vs. DL-44 - an impressive photoshop tennis.
There is lots of stuff to learn here only by looking at the PSD files.
I slept like a baby, 11 hours.
Friday, 07. December 2001
Client Quotes
[12:00 am]
Client Quotes - Dreamless.org nostalgia. A Collection of clients' quotes, from an old Dreamless thread. Good job.
Thursday, 06. December 2001
All about my . . .
[12:00 am]
All about my vagina is a simple but brilliant web site with a pleasant story told in the first person, from someone who apparently has one . . .
There is also a penis story.
Wednesday, 05. December 2001
RE library, PDF2Doc, E-commerce
[12:00 am]
Regular Expression Library looks like a great help for all of those who find them confusing and complicated, including myself.
We needed to convert a PDF file with multiple pages to a Word Document File and found a great utility called PDF2Doc.
An interesting reading: 2001 UCLA Internet Report Finds Declines in E-Commerce, Major Concerns About Online Privacy and Credit Card Security.
The dot-com crash, along with the broad economic decline in 2001, could have created an immense shift in online use, loss of credibility for the Internet among users and dismal prospects for new access by non-users, Cole said. The broad issue we considered in 2001 was: How did a backdrop of economic meltdown affect users and non-users of the Internet? Would Internet users lose faith in online technology? Would Internet use decline? Did the collapse of the Internet boom affect online purchasing and other use?
Read more
Tuesday, 04. December 2001
Source code hiding is dumb
[12:00 am]
An old internet truth says:
If you want to stop people from taking your source code, you don't have anything worth stealing.
Such a foggy day here in Toronto.
Monday, 03. December 2001
Suddenly Everything Sucks
[12:00 am]
Advertisement for Windows XP, altered with a distinct editorial spin. Londoners who posted the image to the Web noted: 
This inspired bust of the MSXP "Suddenly everything clicks" poster is situated at an incredibly busy junction near Liverpool Street Station - tens of thousands of people will see it every day. We spotted it from the top of a bus and it made our day.
When things go wrong. [mpeg]
Sunday, 02. December 2001
Marjan The Lion
[12:00 am]
Marjan the lion, who was injured several years ago when a man attacked him, is shown at the zoo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 19, 2001. North American zoos and aquariums began a campaign this week to raise $30,000 to keep the Kabul zoo running for the next four to six months.
This little story made me sad today.
Saturday, 01. December 2001
World AIDS day
[12:00 am]
Today is World AIDS day.
General AIDS and HIV info
Aids around the world
Aidsinfonyc
TheBody.com
A brief history of AIDS
