November 24th, 2005
After chatting with DJ earlier this afternoon, I decided that today was the day I’d finally move the site to a proper host, rather than have the domain forward visitors to my personal webspace at the University. It’s probably something I should have done years ago, but kept putting off. There may be some issues with the site over the next few days as I move files between servers, but I’ll try and keep the chaos to a minimum.
November 2nd, 2005
Microsoft has a new Portal-like web service: Windows Live Beta
Windows Live will integrate with MicroSoft’s new Email and Instant Messenger software. The new Instant Messenger will offer the following features:
Sharing Folders will be a new and simple way for you to share personal photos, documents, and files with your Messenger contacts. You will be able to create a Sharing Folder by simply dragging files onto a contact name in Messenger. This will create an exact copy of the files on both you and your contact’s computers, and create a Sharing Folder that can be accessed from Messenger, and on the desktop.
The Windows Live service also uses the same Gadgets which will be found in the next Windows OS. These will be similar to the Widgets found in Apple’s OS X and Yahoo’s Konfabulator
From O’Reilly Radar
During the Q&A, I asked specifically if this meant that data and services could be syndicated out as well as in (that is, that Microsoft software wouldn’t just be consuming services from other web providers, and allowing users to syndicate them into their experience, but also that developers on other web platforms could as easily integrate data from Microsoft applications and services into their user experience.) Bill Gates replied with puzzlement, “Of course. There’s no difference between syndicating out and syndicating in. It’s just XML.”
November 2nd, 2005
It’s been a very busy fall. Being a new dad, teaching, working on monstrous projects—leaving little time to keep my blog updated. Someone mentioned to me that A List Apart is featuring my Night of the Image Map article as the Editor’s Choice right now. I had forgotten I wrote it with a spooky theme, to complement the spooky project it was developed for.
Hopefully I can start making more time for the blog again. Maybe update the design too.
September 20th, 2005
Guelph was just added to the list of schools with access to The Facebook at the beginning of September. It’s an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools. They have plans to add more photo sharing and blogging tools in the future as well. The Facebook is very popular in the US and I’m wondering if it will catch on here as well. Newsweek wrote an article about The Facebook in August, and Yahoo! News has a good overview of how students are using the service.
If you’re already a user, here’s my facebook profile.
July 14th, 2005
I finally got a chance to see The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
June 16th, 2005
Nate Piekos was nice enough to include a link to my ComicGallery 1.1 script in the June Newsletter for Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering. Nate releases a new professional comic font and a new free comic font every month. He also does some lettering work for Dark Horse Comics, writes interactive horror fiction at VisitDeadEnds.com and still manages to find the time to publish his weekly Atland webcomic! Rumour has it that all this productivity is the result of a strange dark liquid Nate gets imported from Ireland.
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