October 2003 Archives

100 screenshots and 11 pages about Panther, and I'm still getting used to Jaguar.

• Microsoft: Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers
• Apple: Aqua Human Interface Guidelines
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 1.0
• Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines

Don't think iTunes for Windows follows any of the guidelines but it still feels like the most usable app on my Windows box.

Jeremy has a great question, Which Open Source Projects Would You Sponsor? for yourself and your company. At work if there was anything like a good CRM, think ACT on steroids, it would be a good donation investment. Personally getting more OpenSource with native OS support, like OpenOffice, AbiWord, GIMP, etc on OSX, outside of Xwindoes, would rock.

I'm giving the new MT-Blacklist , A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin a try. While I have not been having the problem that arcterex has been having, comment spam has been getting worse.

Though I am looking fowrard to something from SixApart in the next MovableType release, hopefully.

I did it. I finally did it. Yesterday I gave the Kenwood Towne Center Apple Store, Cincinnati a 90 minute drive, a call to see if they had any Power Mac G4s, specs. Lucky me the did. After a 3 hour round trip, a quick stop to the Apple Store, and hours lost helping a friend with a bad motherboard around midnight I set the new baby up. Damm it sure feels good. Well back to re-exploring.

Overview of Xserve for a Small Business LAN

Why suing customers is a bad strategy.

Evil Ninja's Insult of the Day

Start with a view of the Milky Way zoom 10x repeatly until getting to a quark level. Damm that is soo cool.

Filtering Mail FAQ to go along with Sorting Mailing Lists with Procmail.