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9:29 PM #

SXSW Speakers of Note:

Two idols of mine, Jeffrey Zeldman and Joshua Davis will be in here in Austin this March, care of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Check out the dates on the panel schedule.

1:50 PM #

So I read on BrowserWatch about several "new" browsers coming out this year. The first one they listed was UltraBrowser, but they failed to mention it was a skinned copy of IE 6. It's not even a good skin... Looks like the deformed child of AOL and Windoze XP. The article even went so far as to say: UltraBrowser is licensed and customized for ISPs and affinity groups, who take the UltraBrowser technology and customize it for their own uses. Though this isn't a new notion... Many ISPs do the same thing with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Hello! It is Internet Explorer.

Neoplanet released an clone of Internet Explorer 5 a couple years ago. It seemed just as silly to me back then. Maybe they've made made some changes, but not enough (IMHO) to warrant calling it a new browser.

1:28 PM #

Speaking of Netscape, AOL Time Warner is apparently in negotiations to acquire Red Hat Software. Red Hat is one of the largest (or perhaps the largest) distributor of the Linux Operating System.

As much as I dislike AOL, this acquisition would really put Linux in a good position to compete with Microsoft Windows. Subsequently, having an open-source operating system distributed through junkmail could be very beneficial to the consumer software market. It would give software developers more incentive to code for Linux — lack of software support is still the main drawback for running a Linux system.

1:09 PM #

My boss pointed out something that I had missed in November. Netscape released version 4.79. It makes me ask, why? I guess it fixed a few bugs but it seems like kicking a dead horse. Work on 6.2 if you've got the resources to spare...

11:44 PM #

Blogback is under construction now so comments are down for a while. Apparently he was storing comments as plain text files... That causes a massive resouce hog when the server accesses the file system for thousands of people so he's in the process of moving everything to a MySQL database. That should speed everything up nicely.

Back in April I was going to write my own weblog but didn't know anything about and didn't have access to a database. Lack of a database is still a big drawback so I hope to move to a different host soon. MySQL would be nice since PHP has so much support for it.

11:13 PM #

Snatching a couple links from glish. Opera 6 has been out for Windows for some time now, but Opera 5 Final for Mac was just released on Wednesday. Also, more ad-busting opt-outs to get rid of those annoying pop-ups my brother keeps complaining about. hehe.

8:12 PM #

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1 Working Draft was published on Tuesday. Of course, SVG still isn't fully implemented into web browsers yet, but in the meantime you can download the Adobe SVG plug-in.

11:42 PM #

Happy New Year... Has it been a week already? Just got up and running on Blogback. Gotta try out various web comment software in order to get this xml template in tip top shape. Marcus tipped me off that the letters WCML were already taken so that name's out. But who cares. The name's not important, right? I'm tired.