Tuesday, 9 April 2002
Paolo's Weblog: Shared Outlines: GUI: Yeah! This looks terrific!
8:32 AMWhy the hell do microsoft products make so much damn noise? [Steve Zellers' Radio Weblog]
The post continues to complain about Word making a noise when you save a file. Personally, I find this very useful and wish more applications would do it. Not everyone is trained to look up at the File menu flashing, and it can be annoying to have to switch your focus from the document you're working on.
Until the save sound was introduced in Word 97/98, my mother always used to save by the File menu rather than a keyboard equivalent so she was sure it worked. I'm sure this feature was motivated by similar observations by the folks at Microsoft. The monopoly, yes, well… 
Monday, 8 April 2002
More pictures from yesterday. The person who took these didn't know me, and I don't know him, so please forgive my seeming absence from them (although if someone spots me in them, please let me know!)
Email access via the Web: Wish I had found this a few days ago. Over the weekend I installed mail software at home: so far, Postfix, several components of the Courier suite (IMAP server, maildrop filter, and SqWebMail client), fetchmail, and SpamAssassin. Also required were some Apache, SSL, and DNS infrastructure changes to support everything.
It hasn't all gone perfectly, but overall I've been very impressed by Courier and a little amazed it isn't more popular (or is it)?
Sunday, 7 April 2002
At least some employees laid off at Apple this past week weren't in sales and marketing. They're short-staffed enough as is on software development—it only takes a few seconds of looking at OS X to discover the rough edges. Apple must be really hurting. Ouch.
