Got this in my email this morning from Julian Bond that he’d built a pretty complete IE/Gecko textarea editor (along these lines or Chris’s stuff).
Ben Goodger has some complaints about the Mozilla preferences. I’m sort of ambivalent about it. Yes, from a normal user (and in some cases, any) perspective, a lot of things shouldn’t be there, but ostensibly the Mozilla browser was supposed to be a tech demo, not a final end-product. I’d venture to say that the ‘failure’ of Mozilla in this regard is not an overcrowded UI, but rather it’s difficulty in customization for creating end products. (It was interesting, for example, hearing about Active State’s experiences w/ Komodo at last year’s OSCON) The conclusion is the same either way, I suppose. Move the stuff into plugins / easy to remove modules.
Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty
5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 … Goodbye, Columbia
Some suspect the tile mounting is the least of Columbia’s difficulties. “I don’t think anybody appreciates the depths of the problems,” Kapryan says. The tiles are the most important system NASA has ever designed as “safe life.” That means there is no back-up for them. If they fail, the shuttle burns on reentry. If enough fall off, the shuttle may become unstable during landing, and thus un-pilotable. The worry runs deep enough that NASA investigated installing a crane assembly in Columbia so the crew could inspect and repair damaged tiles in space. (Verdict: Can’t be done. You can hardly do it on the ground.)
This was the cover story in the April 1980 Washinton monthly. I haven’t posted much on the whole shuttle thing, and I don’t think I will (apparently it’s a big news thing or something. there are some advantages to not watching TV I suppose). There’s much more coverage elsewhere: Doc, Space.com, Spaceflight Now, Winer: 2/1, 2/2
Ad blocking via CSS:
- Blogzilla: Ad Blocking with CSS3 Selectors
- tidakada: hide Flash bannder ads in Mozilla
- css-d: Mozilla userContent.css banner hiding – or not quite…
Recent IP posts:
- brentashley on property or license w/ followup on ownership and use
- Aaron on Why “Intellectual Property” is not Property
- John Snyder, NARAS board member: Embrace file-sharing, or die
- Janis Ian on /.
Kevin Lynch (Macromedia) has a blog now.
Andy’s posting on web log analyzers spurred me to look through Sawmill’s forums again and see what the status is on smp/dmp support. Good news it looks like. Althought it’s a few months away at the very least, it looks like version 7 will allow this (chunking the sections and then reassembling into the DB). Personally I’m pretty excited about it. I have a small stack of old Macs and PCs gathering up which would be perfect for clustering and doing log analysis.
This just in from CNN: Shuttle Traveling Nearly 18 Times Speed of Light. Well, I suppose it could be worse…
