Archive 13. July 2003

Linux on a Saturday Night

It's amusing to watch an otherwise intelligent person (virtually of course only - I'm grateful that I probably don't have to witness the personal breakdowns that are taking place), desperately trying to get Linux to work and blaming Linux, throwing snide comments about Linux vs. Windows. I mean, the guy writes books, he's a co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, has an academic degree, but he's not able to buy and read a beginner's book about Linux before installing a completely new operating system. Classic case of overqualification - too smart to learn.

Devil's grin

At Joho the Blog there's the original article.

More WebCore Fixes

Recommended blog by the CSS developer in the Safari team. You always get nice insights into what's coming and are pleased that Safari is becoming increasingly complete in CSS so you can finally use all those nice features (and then look down on Microsoft's inferior implementations).

It would just be nice if at least the Gecko people would keep up too (they've already implemented a lot, certainly better than IE), then us Safari people wouldn't be so alone...

You can find the original article at Surfin Safari — here.

Today's top rider of the Tour for me: Tyler Hamilton

That's clear to me. To stay with Armstrong on such a grueling stage with a broken collarbone and keep up so well, even attacking at times, is already a superb performance. Though also a bit crazy. But you probably have to be that way if you want to ride the Tour...