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Dave has put up a fast loading version of Scripting News, as their static server is down. I have to admit whenever I see this version of Scripting News, I'm taken back to 1996, '97 when SN was small and fast. It makes me want to rip the images off my site and strip it down to nothing. FAST FAST FAST!

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

• Frank Zappa

Ah.. Sunday afternoon. Nice lazy day. Jodi and I had a really full Saturday: we got up at 5 o'clock to go hiking at Squaw Peak. That about killed me, but I'm getting better. Squaw Peak is about an hour hike to the summit, but it's all going up - with no respite, it's like climbing stairs. By the time I got to the top I had almost vomitted, and my legs were so rubbery I about fell off the mountain (the top is all crags - you have to be mountain goat to stay put!) The view, however, is awesome - you can really get an idea of how huge the Phoenix valley is.

Wow. Apple's introduced new Powerbooks again:

Looks like Macromedia has got their whole lineup out in the new MX form now. I know Dreamweaver now runs on OS X (that link also has all the other areas that were improved in MX).

Apple announces the new eMac: the education iMac.

Robert X Cringely is a tech columnist for PBS. This week his son died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), while lying in Robert's lap as he did his email. It's... horrible. My thoughts and prayers go out to Robert and his family.

Ok, follow me here. Jenny at The Shifted Librarian asked why people use Google over the local library when researching.

Oooooh, M$ has gotta HATE this, from IBM:

Together these two solve the problem of letting employees use Outlook on their PCs while connecting with their non-Microsoft e-mail servers.

I had to add a new command to Sid: "Add Markup" opens a window with a single field, where you can put a tagname (I use it for 'blockquote' a lot) and Sid will insert it, or wrap the currently selected text with that tag.

Thanks to Iconfactory I now have a simple icon for Sid's .conv documents. Cooool. It's amazing how much more "real" your app looks with that little icon at the top of the document window...

Yes, each conversation document in Sid now has a working history. When you post to your site, Sid keeps a copy of the post. You can slide out the history drawer, load a previous post, edit it, and Sid will post the edits to the site, and save them back to the history as well.

yes, again. edited. again

This is the body. I'm tired of test posts, and i bet you are too!

Can be seen on the Sid page.

Thanks to Iconfactory I now have a simple icons for Sid's .conv documents. Cooool. It's amazing how much more "real" your app looks with that little icon at the top of the document window...

yes, again. this is an edit.

ugh. DateFormatters are a pain in the butt.

Mark Pilgrim describes his own, and my, gardening abilities:

My aptitude with plants can only be described in the negative. Take all the qualities of a good gardener, and negate them, and that's me. ... I have telepathic powers that can kill plants just by looking at them. I can burn out a lawn in a hurricane. I am the opposite of a "green thumb".

Sid now maintains a history of previous posts, and can load an old post into the form for editing. Next up is to re-jig the posting code to post an edited message as such.