Friday night I repartitioned my laptop’s hard drive. There were two main objectives of this project: 1) Split the single 40gig disk into two 20gig chunks and 2) obliterate all the annoying pre-installed Toshiba co-branded crap with a clean install of XP Pro. Smaller disk partitions are a good thing; I have one disk for… Continue reading Partition the Known Universe
Month: June 2004
Standards Police: It’s All Been Said
It started with an email which inspired a righteously annoyed blog post. It got linked to from another very prominent design blog which in turn spawned a heated discussion. The debate was carried to yet another blog. And ultimately it pushed someone else to swear off future postings about web standards. Summary of the debate:… Continue reading Standards Police: It’s All Been Said
IE5/Mac Annoyances
Some years back MicroSoft did an amazing thing: they developed and released a version of Internet Explorer for MacOS. They embraced the Enemy, though it was hardly an altruistic move, merely part of their strategy to crush Netscape once and for all and to establish a toe-hold in the Mac world. But ulterior motives aside,… Continue reading IE5/Mac Annoyances