We've invested in a new piece of software. This is a web-based hierarchical to-do list manager called Tasks. I was especially pleased to see Tasks 2.0 mentioned on versiontracker (in the Mac OS X section) where it has received very good reviews. Tasks is quite nice; you can try the demo. There's also a 30-day… Continue reading

Rich has a T-shirt that says I Am a Professional. Do Not Try This at Home. Perhaps I should have worn that shirt this past Monday. 🙂 We have a Powerbook 2400. The 2400 is a fairly old Mac laptop. It's a PowerMac but it can't run Mac OS X. It will be stuck on… Continue reading

In a bit of understatement, storage enclosure manufacturer LaCie announced the "Bigger Disk" this week, a device that houses a full terabyte of storage. c.f. extremetech.com, "LaCie Boosts PC External Storage To 1 Terabyte", Jan 16, 2004 The LaCie Bigger Disk, with the largest hard drive capacity available, is a unique innovation that packs an… Continue reading

Found on slashdot (this explains a few things about some of the programs I've used, especially on Windoze… – V.) Everything I know about UI design, I learned from Games Continue reading

It's been a quiet week in Lake Woebegone… not much to report. Some minor technical successes… (but would I really want to consider doing tech support for a living?) Continue reading

Takara Co, a major Japanese toy maker, said on Wednesday it would launch a device called the “Meowlingual” that can interpret a cat’s meow Continue reading

Happy Independence Day. Try these virtual fireworks and have a happy and safe holiday. (Note: Requires Java; Java may take minute or two to load.) Continue reading

Have you seen the Amazing JavaScript Web Clock? It's cool. N.B. The clock requires JavaScript. Mac users note: The clock does not work under Safari Beta 2; try IE.5 (a bug report has been filed) (Apparently the Javascript also does not work under OmniWeb, Camino/Chimera, or Netscape either… any JavaScript gurus who can figure out… Continue reading