Monthly Archives: November 2002

Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: “Longhorn” Alpha Preview – from /. and has more than just screenshots for those interested in this sort of thing.

Kernel Traffic #192 For 18 Nov – didn’t have a chance to read it yet, bookmarked for reading tomorrow.

Open Source and the GUI – why it sucks.

Scott did some cleaning out of his house and found lots of old stuff, reminds me a little of the stuff I threw out, but I’m amazed at the amount of tech equipment he picked up over the years!

Mark turned 30, “standing in my bathroom wearing nothing but a pair of latex gloves, holding a wet cat in mid-air.”
I’m not 30 quite yet, almost 27, almost, I’m still grasping onto that number 26 until Time cruelly twists it from my hands!

Slashdot | Do People Really Use Their PDAs? – i have an old Palm IIIx, I use it to play Go, and not much else. *If* I was organising events and wasn’t at a PC I’d use it but my phone is “good enough” for contacts and alarms.

Dave pointed me at the new MS OneNote app and quoted Steve Gollmor saying, “a powerful idea processor”. Zimran puts it in more <a href="http://www.winterspeak.com/2002_11_01_archive.html#
85711214″>familiar terms, calling it a “text editor”. hehe.

:: phpPatterns() – there is much yet to learn!

About Tablet Computing Old and New – if you enjoyed the review of the new Tablet PCs, you’ll like this look at their history. It reminded me that the C64, NES, and other 8 bit computers had “laser guns” you fired at your tv. I used them, they worked, how well I can’t remember though!

The top ten usability problems in Mozilla – harsh but true. I think that judging by how I see others (even developers) use MSIE, I don’t think most people will actually go into the preferences. Quite often I end up telling these users how to configure their browsers, even though I rarely use Windows or MSIE.
This is the post that pointed me at the above. Mathew’s dealings with his Internet cafe. *shudder*
I’d go for galeon, it’s an excellent browser!