Sunday, January 02, 2000

Qube Quorner gets a new look. Spring cleaning comes early in ManilaLand. And Kate Adams does a tour, though she calls it a Troll. Here's proof that a Manila site doesn't have to look like a Manila site. And Scott Hanson has new pictures of his infant son Christopher.

Howard Hansen's review of EditThisPage.Com. "The first truly-compelling platformless web application I've seen."

Survey: Do you like the "whitesmoke" background color on Scripting News?

We're almost finished with the MacBird open source release. I passed the code to Brad Pettit who's got a current Mac development system, and he got it building over the weekend in CodeWarrior Pro 4. I've been writing the website, getting the source listings available in HTML, the license agreement, screen shots, various miscellaneous stuff. I've been looking for the logos people did for MacBird in early 1996 when we released the source for MacBird Runtime. There were some really good ones. Let me know if you have a copy and I'll keep looking.

Who should be interested? Designers. Mac people. People who are interested in open source. And Linux developers who are interested in user interface design and technology.

Steve Martin: The Third Millennium, So Far So Good. "You ask, so how will we refer to the first millennium, the one that begins with all the zeros? Easy. We will not refer to it."

Brett Glass: "Today, reminiscing about the past and planning for the future, I opened an old ThinkTank outline in which I'd stored previous years' resolutions. Well, you might be amused to know that the program which made you your fortune -- ThinkTank -- is non-Y2K-compliant in a rather amusing way. When you run it on any Windows system, it cannot fathom the notion that the year is 2000, and so sets things straight by unconditionally resetting your system's calendar to a date in 1989. Oops."