Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Not so fast buddy MS: New Mac Outlook not yet in development [MacCentral] [Mac Net Journal] 4:14:43 PM

OsX Outlook? osOpinion is reporting that Microsoft is working on a MacOS X Outlook client. I don't need it (or want it), but a lot of people out there do. [via Stepwise] 3:15:21 PM

Font feedback Garth at Deadly Bloody Serious asks me: Uh, what's wrong with letting the readers choose the font in their browser settings? What a wonderful question. The answer is that I don't know what the heck I am doing with CSS. The standard Radio templates had the font information in there already and I just went with the flow. Today I happened to find mpt, a site with radio like style sheets that have no font information in them, so it is possible. It's next on my list of things to take care of. 2:27:22 PM

Twiddles and tweaks Just making some small changes here and there, but found that last month was never changed in terms of the style I ended the month with. So I think I'll re-render everything and hopefully I will get January 23rd back in the process. 2:11:59 AM

Digital photography This TidBITS article by Alex Hoffman is well worth reading if you are at all into digital photography, more so if you use a Mac (but the article discusses a number of services that people are going to use regardless of platform). This is part 1, stay tuned for more. 1:10:27 AM

A small font change I've punted on using Geneva as the first font in the font list. A couple hours moving around the house and browsing to test signal strength convinced me that I needed to make the change. Yes, it looks nice in OmniWeb (and it's bigger than Verdana) and it's probably the best choice under OS 9 for all browsers in terms of type quality but it looks pretty terrible in IE5 under MacOS X. 1:06:13 AM

Lots of doppler radar I went out this evening for a tour of the backyard looking for stars. The clouds had already started rolling in so there wasn't much to see... The Big Dipper was pretty visible and I could see a bit of Gemini, but that was about it. After such a beautiful day (high in the mid eighties, no clouds) I was hoping to see a nice clear sky tonight. I stopped in the family room to see what the talking heads on the news had to say about the weather and learned about something called livedoppler7000. It sounded neat but it didn't seem to be online yet. Too bad. I wandered around and found a whole bunch of sites with live doppler information including: Live Doppler 10,000, located in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia area), Niagara Mohawk LIVEDoppler 9 covering central New York, Live Super Doppler 9000 seems to cover north central Wisconsin (centered on Wausau, I can see Green Bay on the right side, Oshkosh near the bottom right) and King5 Live Doppler covering the greater Seattle Washington area. The list goes on. You can always go find more. Then I hit the mothership. goWally says they have 330+ live doppler radar systems indexed. Although I didn't count, they certainly have a bunch. Los Angeles has nothing local, which explains what KABC seemed to be planning. So I finally went to the KABC site. Lo and behold, it's active, they just haven't bothered to put it up on site, or even just re-direct it back over to the main page, or something. They have a doppler image for Ventura County too. The 'South LA' (south LA County) image actually seems to have the roads in the right place, which is a neat improvement from some of the other doppler reports I've seen. And if all else fails, this still works. 12:52:57 AM

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