For my sins I’m entering thousands of addresses into a LookOut contacts list, and find that each one takes a surprising number of mouse-clicks. It would go much easier if I could simply type them into a textfile and convert it somehow; is there a way to do that?
I moved from Mozilla to Firefox and found that the font menu has changed. I don’t know where each app looks for its fonts; they’re not neatly integrated in Linux as in MacOS. I don’t like any of them as well as Lucida, but they are apparently TrueType and render nice and smooth, with the interesting side effect that it’s much easier to read light-on-dark. But none of them have a complete Greek alphabet! Most Greek letters show up looking like Syriac, whatever font I choose. Argh. How am I to do math?
Any month now I’m going back to Apple’s warmer embrace. All I really wanted from Linux was the ability to write Unix-style filters, anyway.
Most (according to casual sample) of the comic strips hosted at Keenspace have had their archives disappear, in whole or in part, this week; as if Keenspace had been taken over by Blogspot.
Comcast’s DNS has been flaky of late, making me wonder: why doesn’t the browser cache IP addresses?
how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004. I wonder what the big wheel is for.
I hope this yarn is true: one of my favorite MacOS toys was developed clandestinely.
We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security.
(Cited by Travis.)
My One True Ex hears from her mother a rumor of an effort to “put the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and the British Library on line”, and commands me to ask my Vast Network of Contacts what substance there is to it.
Mike Linksvayer promptly responds:
. . . you probably heard indirectly of [press release] which includes the NYPL and several universities, but not the LoC or British Library AFAIK. The Internet Archive also has several scanning projects involving various universities and grants from the LoC and British National Archives among others, see [press release]. Perhaps a news story mentioned both archive.org and Google.