• Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo

    Once again, be careful what you blog. The most innocuous thing may get you fired, just like Michael Hanscom of Seattle, WA, recently terminated by Microsoft for mentioning that MSCopy (the Microsoft in-house print shop) was located in the same building as Shipping & Receiving. Before condemning Microsoft for being an evil, paranoid ogre, you…

  • Quark 7 and 8 Announced

    Fred Ebrahimi, CEO of Quark: “ We’ve just announced QuarkXPress 7 will ship on November 1st, and XPress 8 will ship on December 20th. After careful consideration we came to this conclusion: What the hell? It’s not like we actually change the software between versions anyway. Hence our release cycle will be sped up tremendously…

  • Server Issues Resolved

    I’ve worked out and resolved the MySQL server issue that kept my blog sedantary throughout this past weekend. كازينو كروز Give me a little time and I’ll have responded to everyone’s comments and updated the Saturday Slant page to tie into the below post. In the meantime, I invite you to check out Jennifer’s really…

  • I Shout “Quark Sucks!” Loudest

    If you go to Google.com and type in “quark sucks” (with or without the quotes), my site–specifically some op/ed dialogues I started–is the top two listings. This makes me very proud. It’s almost as if my voice shouting “Quark sucks!” is the loudest–at least on Google. Google Search: quark sucks

  • SVG Finally Starting To Come Alive

    The W3C has just announced the first SVG Competition, this one to design a SVG Tiny greeting card of 30k or less. The winner receives a Nokia 3650 tri-band GSM handset. “ Announcing the first official SVG Mobile Competition. Nokia have provided a 3650 tri-band GSM handset as a prize for the best SVG Mobile…

  • Plan To Reduce Spam: Tip

    I got this e-mail from Arianna at http://blog.realitycrutch.com/ about my Plan To Reduce Spam: “ Hi I liked your spam plan, I’ve been doing what I can but didn’t think of keying addresses, great idea. I looked to see how you created a safe mailto, very cool! I suspected the NOSPAM in addresses wasn’t safe…