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We've known Mike Farmer, publisher

We've known Mike Farmer, publisher of MacMoney, for many years. Through Cam, we found out that Mike's company, Survivor Software, has been getting lotsa hits by people who were trying to get info about some TV show.

C'mon, CBS, why don't you just give Mike a lot of money for the URL and include a link to his site?

Posted by Dori Smith at 05:39 PM
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Quote of the day: "'OK'

Quote of the day:

"'OK' is not a spec." (From the QA department of an unnamed high tech company)

Posted by Dori Smith at 12:06 AM
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Quote of the day (via

Quote of the day (via jean):

"Dear, am I a bad mother?"

"You mean like Shaft?"

Posted by Dori Smith at 11:33 PM
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Several years ago, I was

Several years ago, I was involved in a venture that sold management software to garment manufacturers; it was the only Mac-based solution on the market, and we called it MacRag. I learned a lot about the garment business, certainly enough to be glad we never had any customers as misguided as this: The Dorcus Line of Menswear.

Posted by Tom Negrino at 06:46 PM
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Uh oh; my Bond Girl

Uh oh; my Bond Girl Name is "Kisme Everywhere."

Posted by Tom Negrino at 06:07 PM
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The always wonderful Joel on

The always wonderful Joel on Software says Whaddaya mean, you can't find programmers?. I've said this for a while; there's no shortage of programmers, there's just a shortage of companies willing to do what it takes to make programmers happy.

Dori's law of programmer availability: if I haven't been offered a job in the last 18 months, there's no shortage of programmers.

His article reminded me of one company I worked for that had a policy of no vacation in the first 12 months you worked there and not much after that. They offered me pretty good money to start, so I offered to take $5K less in exchange for an extra week's vacation every year. They turned it down. I should have turned them down.

Posted by Dori Smith at 02:13 PM
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On the Periodic Table of

On the Periodic Table of Blogs, this blog is element #97, Bk.

Posted by Dori Smith at 01:59 PM
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Via Dennis Wilen (aka Voidmstr),

Via Dennis Wilen (aka Voidmstr), it's the Bond Girl Name Generator. Hi, I'm "Vera Cutecouple." What's your name?

Posted by Dori Smith at 11:41 AM
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Cam has started using the

Cam has started using the TITLE attribute on anchor tags everywhere, including on his long list of blogs. Well, everywhere, that is, except for one blog.

Posted by Dori Smith at 11:57 PM
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Today's email of the day:

To: Dori Smith
From: WeR4U2PlayWith@domainname.com
Subject: JavaScript

My wife and I are designing a swingers site (R) and I have
AgeCheck on a separate page by itself after someone puts
in their info I want them to be redirected to the main site.
How do I make this happen? I am also looking to upgrade to
a pay site. Have info on that?

For all the information on us along with PICS, Videos &
more see the following link:

PICS, Videos & More

Please Sign our DREAMBOOK!

Uh, yeah, right...

Posted by Dori Smith at 11:14 PM
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For a long time, I've

For a long time, I've thought that Courtney Love was a self-absorbed, media-hungry asshole. But after reading this speech she delivered about the record business and new technology, I admit that I was wrong.

Posted by Tom Negrino at 12:44 AM
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For those of you who

For those of you who saw my post of last Saturday, yes, the offending page has been taken down. The main site is still up though, sporting a disclaimer that says

A note to my students & other visitors: The purpose of this website is to bring the best of the best to your fingertips. As you go to the various sections, please note the disclaimers and the sources of the information being made available to you. Enjoy!!!

This is a woman who needs a sharp whack with the cluestick about a couple of things called copyright & plagiarism, imo. And this is a teacher... <sigh>. (Note: horrible "music" is automatically played if you follow the link).

Posted by Dori Smith at 01:59 AM
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Via the TidBITS Talk mailing

Via the TidBITS Talk mailing list, an excellent resource on how to turn off HTML or RTF in various e-mail software programs.

Posted by Dori Smith at 12:52 AM
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Everything old is new again...

Everything old is new again... we were explaining to Sean about old time interactive fiction games, and how they were a big deal in the days before shoot-'em-up graphics games. A quick web search, and voila! Did you know that you can get IF games, not just for your desktop machine, but also for your Palm?

Start off by downloading ZIP (Z-Code Interpreter Program) and then grab one or all of the 90 public domain IF games. And if that's not enough, you can buy some of Infocom's classics online.

And of course, the classic Adventure is available online! I don't know how many hours I've wasted playing this over the years, but I just added another.

Posted by Dori Smith at 10:59 PM
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If you liked Star Dudes,

If you liked Star Dudes, check out The Dudes Strike Back.

Posted by Dori Smith at 01:21 PM
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