Today is my very good friend Vanessa Heng’s birthday. She’s flown off to Italy today with her parents, the lucky girl. Since she speaks Italian and studied in Florence for half a year, she should have no problem showing them around.
In the meantime, I’ll just hang on to what’s left of my leave.
Here I briefly extol the merits of the open source movement, namely Apache for its server software and byproducts, as well as Linux.
I haven’t, honest-to-goodness for the life of me, had time to review my favourite newsfeeds since I started work again. I nearly had to skip one friend’s wedding this weekend because of contractor problems (but I made it, hallelujah), and nearly forgot about an ex-colleague’s forthcoming wedding, AND I forgot the birthday of one of…
Zeldman and Stopdesign to revamp Apple.com. Can it get any better than this? CSS guru Eric Meyer launches his new consultancy website. One for the ladies: Eating dark chocolate is good for you, according to this Reuters Health report. It contains antioxidants.
Behold, the world’s first 400GB hard disk (from Hitachi). NetNewsWire looks like a nifty feed reader designed for OSX. Google can now search flash files. Link from Kottke via Waxy.org. iTunes sells 70 million songs in first year.
I was looking for a new mobile phone and realised that 02’s my-xda.com website refused to let me in, even though I was using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, and not Internet Explorer or Netscape. It also refused to let me in using Safari. Fortunately, it did run on IE for Mac. I had…
Finally, my browser gets a Service Pack which fixes, among other things, the CSS display problems some of us designers have been complaining about. This is what Microsoft had to say about it: “Internet Explorer 6 SP1 offers a feature-rich platform for building Web-based applications and developing informative content for users. It provides full support…