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Tuesday, 29 October 2002 |
I hope that an institution, or the state galleries at any rate, can do something about including virtual and digital art in their collections, and shows, as reported in this article in The New York Times by Matthew Mirapaul.
“Despite the pride that Americans take in our technological prowess, this country—unlike Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan—does not yet have a major institution devoted to Internet-based art works and other forms of computer art.
10:03:45 AM 
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I really like many aspects of Chimera, the Mozilla organization’s web browser for Mac OS X, built in Cocoa. But the current version, 0.5, is so unstable. It crashed 6 times this morning already. Bad news indeed.
There is an AppleScript application named ChimeraKnight at VersionTracker that assists you to download nightly builds of Chimera. I am going to grab it right now, in the hopes that there are nightly improvements made to issues like stability.
Otherwise I will try out Netscape or Mozilla again, and hope that the problems I was having with them will not get in the way too much. Their Mac OS X versions are at least much better than their Mac OS 9 versions.
9:42:20 AM
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Macromedia Chief Creative Officer Michael Gough ponders: “We have been spending a lot of time lately puzzling over a very simple question: Is there a ‘Macromedia experience’?”
9:27:57 AM
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Every morning, whether I take the bus or the train into Perth from Inglewood, I get off at the central railway station. I used to get off the train at Claisebrook in East Perth but that has been closed for repairs for some time.
I either walk from Perth to East Perth, or catch the free Red City CAT bus. There are a number of schools for foreign students in East Perth, and the number of businesses operating out of here is slowly but steadily growing. The City CAT loop runs, Blue for north to south, and Red for west to east, are served mostly by small Scania buses. They are a good size for off-peak, but lousy for peak hour. I have spotted an articulated CAT bus a coupl of times but it rarely runs on the Red loop.
The Red buses theoretically run every 5 minutes. At peak hour every single one of them is densely packed, to the point where some passengers have to wait for the next one, by which time there is too many people for one bus again.
The city is growing again, after years of decline and a rush to the suburbs.
9:16:23 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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