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My children got to see their first anti-war protesters over the weekend.

(That’s something I wished I would never have to say…)

Time to break things around here, and by that we mean new features. Or is it new bugs. Or Both.

Anyway, we’ve added a strip of photos on the main page. We’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but haven’t quite gotten around to it. So like most things, we’ll throw it out there and refine it as it goes. Things of note. It’s not done but that’s ok, things on the web are never really done, right? Also, it looks like things are borked in Netscape 4.x in a most peculiar way, which might be just fine, though it is a puzzle as to how the borking manifests itself.

On the bright side, you’ll start seeing more photos around here. Yay.

In other news, I’m close to patching ht://Dig 3.1.6 to produce valid XHTML output. Just… need.. more… time…

Ok, on with the show…

Forwarding Address: OS X talks about designers, OS 9, and QuarkXPress:

In many cases this is the only thing binding design pros to OS 9. They want to migrate to OS X, but they can’t.

One of my designer friends recently told me that his shop was moving to OS X and InDesign. Granted, it’s a small shop, but still, it’s a start. I’m not sure how the other design shop I’m familiar with is handling the OS X transition.

As for my own experince, when Safari was released, I told a few people, and one person was heard to ask “Does it require OS X?” which tells me a little about the view from the design/OS 9 trenches around these parts…

Dave says this of Teoma:

Teoma appears to be as good a search engine as Google.

I’ve looked at Teoma a bit, as I’m just as nervous as the next cat about Google being the only game in town. (Competitions is a good thing, remember that!) Currently if you go to Teoma and attempt to submit a url, you are sent to ask.ineedhits.com where you are presented with an order form you can fill out, and pay to be included. This is not how the web works. This is not about equality. This is about money. From what I can tell, unless I’m missing something, a new site can’t just say to Temoa “please index me” unless they pony up some cash, or get some other site to link to them so the indexer follows the link. Though it takes a few click to find, Google has a simple (and free) way to submit a site for indexing.

Also of interest, from the About Teoma page:

Search results appearing under the heading “Sponsored Links” are provided by Google®, a third party provider of pay for performance search listings.

I’m not even sure what to make of that, besides the fact that Teoma seems dependant on Google for some things…

Around our household we really don’t go in much for the ‘reality’ type shows, I mean, I try to live in a fantasy world of my own creation as much as possible… Anyway, as luck (bad or otherwise) would have it, we actually watched part of Joe Millionaire last night. My familiarity with the show comes from commercials, and the discussions about it that take place on the wacky morning show on Lazer 103. Still, I predicted that ‘Joe’ would be given one million dollars about two weeks ago. This was the simplest explanation as to him being a poor millionaire chap.

And really, a million is pretty cheap. The main cast of Friends each gets one million per episode, and there’s six of them. So that’s 6 million per episode just for the stars. Fox had this Joe guy, and all the women, and probably 13 episodes, and I’m sure it cost much less than 6 million… And from what I hear it was a popular show.

This brings up two important points. Reality shows won’t go away, and, this is just the beginning…

Can I get a collective Argh! (thanks…)