Eric S. "Got me a blog and I'm not afraid to use it" Raymond:

Gun-control boosters are virtuous crusaders animated by selfless love of children and small fuzzy things. There will come a day when all guns are banned, hallelujah, violent crime will plummet, and we can stop being embarrassed for being Americans. (link) Heh.

I've got Sid2 working now to the point of duplicating the functionality of the Java version (i.e. Sid 1) - plus a few extras. I think I'll release a beta pretty soon.

Apple is scheduled to announce new rackmount servers today. I've been around the Mac world long enough to be pretty cynical about this, but here's what I'd like to see:

Bill Bumgarner has a weblog, and from time to time he posts insteresting bits that are useful to Cocoa developers.

Please ignore

If this shows up on the weblog, then progress is coming along nicely on Sid2, a native Objective-C version of Sid.

AP: Suspect Had Flight Manuals

A suspect in an alleged scheme to obtain fraudulent student visas had flight manuals, a drawing of a plane striking one of the World Trade Center towers and a date book with a lone entry: Sept. 11, according to court documents. Norfolk, Va, is one of the 5 cities in my home town area of Hampton Roads. Wow. Very scary.

After complaining that I could not afford to buy Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa programming book, I got smart today and checked out the Phoenix Public Library website.

Dave writes:

"Yesterday we released a change to this core routine that allows the user to completely replace writeRssFile in an update-safe way." Maybe we'll begin to see Radio users providing RSS 1.0-compatible feeds now.

If you use Mac OS X, you simply must get Launchbar, from Objective Devlopment. I'll not rant more now, just get over to Objective Development and get it. $19.95, and the best shareware you'll buy. Do it simple, do it right.

How can something so overpoweringly foul come from our two terribly cute and cuddly felines?

It's late, but I wanted to mention that our pics from Monday's trip to South Mountain are up.

Mark's gone all fruity! Very nice redesign, Mark!

Applle has a new Mac OS X page up on Jaguar, highlighting some of the previously mentioned new features, including iChat, the new Address book, Sherlock 3, new Finder capabilities, and more.

WWDC Keynote: Finder improvements coming in the next version of OS X:

Finder improvements -- integrated search, multithreading support, automatic thumbnail creation, spring loaded folders.

WWDC Keynote:

Inkwell. Handwriting recognition technology. Recognized by any application that uses text. Shhhh... If you're very quiet, you can hear it: neeewwwtoonnnnn......

Steve Jobs, WWDC Keynote: > "Mac OS 9 isn't dead for our customers, but it is for [developers]. Today we say goodbye to Mac OS 9 for all future development," said Jobs.

WWDC Keynote:

iChat: AIM-compatible messaging built in to Jaguar. Can create buddy list of anyone on the local network, as well. You can use your Mac.com name and don't need AOL account.

WWDC Keynote:

Jobs: "A week from tomorrow there'll be some news on the server front." May 14th: Apple introducing a dedicated server, rack mount model.