24. May, 2002 - mostly software

• Here's a picture from last night's Saints' game. Right to left we have Saint Nick (who lived in a trailer at the park last year), Pete (who has since junked the car that Justin Varitek had autographed), the fan services gal whose name I can't remember, and who was working her last game last night, and then J.D. Steve the vendor's butt is featured, too. Saints lost, and the rules for the beer vendors changed with no notice to anyone. It was the first game I've left early (I went to the lot for more beer in the middle of the 8th, rather than being able to buy one in the top of the 8th, when the Saints gave up 4 runs) since 1996, I think.
• Crunchbox, by ShopIP Next Generation Security Solutions (which is fronted by Captain Crunch, aka John Draper) looks like it might be a good security tool. [scripting]
• Jail data, answers still can't be found. 60k photos and records, up in smoke due to buggy software. Oops. [some guy]
• Microsoft issues patch to address IE flaw. Another set of patches. Looks like it's a windows-only problem.
• labs.google.com - Google Demos of stuff that's not quite ready for prime-time, but you can play with it now.
• Where Apple Doesn't Always Play Nice. It's just one of the ways Apple screws developers sometimes. Not saying it's bad, but it's something you have to take into account when developing for the Mac. On the other hand, I've written software like FastFontMenu hoping that Apple would incorporate its functionality into the OS. The idea wasn't to get rich, it was to fix something that was broken in the OS. And even though Classic Mac OS wasn't Open Source, because of the trap mechanism, which allowed patching, anyone could attempt to fix something they thought was broken in the OS. [scripting]

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