Archives for January 2003

Steve Jobs’ Keynote

January 7, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Steve Jobs’ Keynote

at Macworld has been over for a while now; they unveiled some very interesting things today. Most interesting to me in the short term is Safari, Apple’s new browser. As well, an Apple-born X11 system which is interesting to folks from the Unix world, a super-sized 17″ Powerbook and a super-small 12″ Powerbook as well. Jobs understands that the middle ground in laptops is cluttered – either end of the spectrum is where the good stuff lives. Also: 802.11g is being called Airport Extreme, they have released Jobs’ own pet software, Keynote, and some other stuff.

Maybe some of the huge announcements of past Keynotes were missing, but I like this one anyhow. It has that feeling of taking care of business.

Catching up:

January 6, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Catching up:

Dial-Up Revelations, by Meg Hourihan on the O’Reilly Network. A nice look at web standards and alternate access methods to network data from the perspective of someone away from high speed Internet access for an extended period of time.

Earlier today, Zeldman wrote

January 5, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Earlier today, Zeldman wrote

a followup about mild upgrade notices on websites that are standards-compliant, that is, do not work well in NS 4.7 and the like. I decided against using such a beastie when I put up this design and I have had no complaints.

The Daily Oliver was great the other day:

January 5, 2003 by Michael Boyle

The Daily Oliver was great the other day:

1 January. Amazing that Oliver would keep still with the sash on his shoulder.

And so a hectic holidays comes to an end…

January 3, 2003 by Michael Boyle

And so a hectic holidays comes to an end…

I haven’t posted in ages, but luckily that’s because I’ve had a super-long Christmas-thru-New-Year vacation. I spent the first week – 20th to 27th – mostly relaxing and doing family stuff up at Mont Tremblant for Christmas, then back to Montreal where we hosted a party and then off to Quebec City for a splendid New Year’s Eve with friends at a dinner and another party later on.

Things I’ve learned over the holidays: our dog is a great tracker of large and small animals in the brush, and loves the snow though bred for the savannah; sparkling cider from the Eastern Townships of Quebec is really excellent with dessert; people from France have rarely had good California wines, and so it is easy to impress them with a half decent red; Hilton Hotels welcomes dogs, making travel quite a bit easier; and I finally learned that All-Season radial tires simply aren’t up to snuff in the Canadian winter.

Things to look forward to in 2003: following through on the plans of 2002. We’re closing the deal on the house we bought a couple weeks ago in March, getting married in April, and then moving into aforementioned house in May. I think that’s enough for a pretty complete year and that’s just the first five months!