Monday, July 29, 2002
- Dave Winer quit smoking after surviving heart bypass surgery.
I’m not doing anything overt to kill myself now.
L’Chaim!
- Shelley Powers quit blogging. And so begins the great weblog crash of 2002. She will be missed.
- Movable Type 2.2 was released, including a ping-based linkback system called TrackBack, which sounds great but breaks XHTML validation (more info from Phil Ringnalda). Ya know, if I didn’t care about validation, I’d use some inferior tool that was validation-hostile.
- On the bright side, MT 2.2 also introduced a plug-in architecture that allows third parties to create new template tags and attributes. Brad Choate is all over that. Here’s a plug-in that creates
on this day
links. Here’s one that selects entries with arbitrary SQL statements. Here’s one that post-processes other tags with arbitrary regular expressions.
- Mozilla 1.0 was released. Mozilla 1.1 alpha was released. Mozilla 1.1 beta was released. Chimera 0.4 was released. Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac was released. OmniWeb 4.1 was released. iCab 2.8.1 was released. Opera 6.02 was released. Opera 6.03 was released. Opera 6.04 was released.
- Netscape 4 turned 5. 5 years ago, my best friend wasn’t even dating; now he’s married and has two kids. Fucking upgrade already.
- Mac OS X 10.2 was announced. Expect an explosion of leopard skin fashion accessories next spring.
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 was released. Does your operating system have a social contract?
- Apple introduced a new ad campaign called Switch; its main objective appears to be to get stoned Windows users to become stoned Mac users. Parodies quickly sprang up: My name is Steve, My name is Bill, My name is Big Brother, My name is Raven. (My girlfriend switched last Christmas. Her name is Dora, and Zeldman is right.)
- I renewed my license plate online and avoided a trip to the DMV. Best… use… of technology… ever.
- Amazon opened their web services. It’s much better than their first attempt. I’ve written a Python wrapper.
- Dive Into Python was updated with six new sections, dozens of bug fixes, typography improvements, and accessibility tweaks. It is also now being translated into Russian. The book’s revision history is now available in RSS.
- Dive Into OS X is still being updated pretty consistently; new entries include
I mounted my web server via WebDAV but it’s read-only
, Classic Spy, Desktop Console, Visage, Print Center Repair, Your IP Is, and manThor. Several people are now contributing to the site, including John Abbe, Peter Merel, and Ward Cunningham, who says he’s pleased as punch
to have found it. The entire site’s revision history is also available in RSS.
- I received offers to translate Dive Into Accessibility into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Finnish, Romanian, Norwegian, and Estonian. I am still looking for translators for other languages, specifically Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- I redesigned dive into mark. Thanks to Jonathon Delacour, Leslie Harpold, Michael Barrish, Owen Briggs, and the entire crew of the css-discuss mailing list.
- I got engaged.
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