BurningbirdLarry Borsato responded to Om Malik’s glowing review of Hive7 — some kind of virtual community run on Ajax. He writes: While the AJAX version may be new, the concept isn’t. Almost 10 years ago, back when VRML was in vogue, there were 3D chat programs. You got yourself an avatar, and you could wander around the place […]
Another good reason to have a weblog is when you come away from a morning appointment that leaves you with the jangles and you just want to find a place to go with the flow for a bit until you can open up your Eclipse installation and write some Java code and tweak an Oracle […]
Today’s adventures in tech: other than pushing some data around, as well as pushing around some JavaScript and doing a bit of writing, I also purchased my first bluetooth mouse: a Logitech laptop mouse for my Powerbook. I like the mouse, but it seems to come disconnected rather frequently. My bluetooth keyboard from Apple doesn’t […]
I recently upgraded my Dell laptop to Windows XP — the last upgrade for this particular computer until it needs to be turned into a pure Linux machine. As such, I could download the IE 7 beta. The very positive aspect of IE is the fact that PNG images actually work with this browser now, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There is a belief that if it weren’t for the fact that the earliest versions of HTML were unstructured–full of proprietary idiosyncrasies and ill-formed markup indulged by too-loose browsers–the web wouldn’t have grown as fast as it did. Somehow, we’ve equated growth with bad and imprecise specifications rather than the […]