5. August, 2003 - free glider
- Since Casady & Greene has gone bankrupt, the ownership of Glider has reverted to John Calhoun, and he’s making it available for download from his website for free. It’s a cool (and addicting) game.
- I did a little looking through my logs recently (because I was getting referer-spammed by a search-engine) and noticed that the five most popular pages here over the past two weeks are Magical Macintosh Key Sequences,
The home page,
Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important,
Mead Made Easy, and
Quotes I like. They’re all pages that I’ve put extra effort into to make some enduring content, except for the front page, which turns out to be number two on the list. The thing that I find most baffling is the fact that few people click to any other page on the site after coming to one of these pages. Maybe I’m just nosier, but I almost always go looking for something about the author of a site when I get referred there.
- Phone Access Charges Scrutinized. I’ve been trying for almost ten years to not have any long distance service so I could avoid paying the local access charge on my phone bill. Still no luck. At this point, the only solution I can see would be to drop the phone line entirely, and I can’t do that just yet because I need it for my DSL line. But there are alternatives coming, and the phone companies have something like twenty years of resentment they’ll have to overcome in order to convince me to keep having a landline. Perhaps that’s why Millions cut the cord and use cellular for home phones.
- Do not call? They’ll pitch another way. Not a very encouraging article, but I suspect it’s right. [strib]
- I.B.M.’s Fragile Chip Business lost a lot of money last quarter. Will the G5 from Apple help buoy up Big Blue? Will there continue to be a supply of PowerPC chips for Apple? Heck, I don’t know, but I know if I were Apple, I’d be looking into alternatives.
- What time is it? Well, no one knows for sure, or rather they do, but there are three different (correct) answers. [boing boing]
- Interested in Getting a Windows Refund in California Small Claims Court because you removed it and are running Linux or one of the BSDs? This article gives you tips on what you have to do.
- Red Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims made by SCO, and is suing them. They’ve also pledged to set up a defense fund for companies and individuals sued by SCO.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:26:21.