Grace looked at a woman’s

Grace looked at a woman’s picture in the paper on Sunday and said, “Daddy, look at her. She’s so ugly!

Now, I don’t talk like that, especially around her, so I said, “Gracie, that’s not a nice thing to say.”

She looked at the picture, then looked at me, then pointed to the picture. She said, “But, Daddy, she’s really ugly.”

Having a three year old is definitely an adventure.

Tonight I actually got to rock her and sing to her (selections included “Lullabye” by Ben Folds Five, “St. Judy’s Comet” by Paul Simon, and “Blackbird” by The Beatles). Haven’t done that for a long, long time.

Not that she actually fell asleep, mind you.

Step away from the TV,

Step away from the TV, and nobody gets brainwashed.

Why can’t we divide by zero? Here’s a good explanation.

It’s just my luck that I’d miss those two days.” – PHB.

Dave’s laptop tanked yesterday. No amount of coaxing could get it to boot up again. So we threw a FireWire cable on it and backed up his Users folder to Moe on my trusty ole graphite G4 (Moe had more free space than either Larry or Curly). He re-installed Jaguar and now all is well again. He thinks QuickMail caused the crash. I tend to agree, but I haven’t ruled out Chimera yet. I’m sticking with Mozilla anyway.

By the way, I read an interesting blurb about the name Mozilla. The original browser was, as many are aware, Mosaic. Mozilla is short for Mosiac-killer.

Well, this is pretty freaking

Well, this is pretty freaking cool: updating your Radio weblog with .Mac. Of course, I don’t use Radio since I wrote a program to do everything I need it to do, and I don’t use .Mac because I can’t justify $100 a year for an email account and some web space (I mean, I administer a CommuniGate Pro box at work, I know how cheap email can be). But, just the same, this is very cool.

Wow, I haven’t been posting a for a while. I’ve been cranking away at HelpDesk 2, which is going to rock unbelievably. I’m doing all the work at home to avoid any conflict of interest. I’m learning more and more about REALbasic, object oriented programming (sometimes I learn a little bit too late, though), SQL, and PostgreSQL.

And now, James Milne of Essence Software has resurfaced after a long hibernation, only to give away SuperSocket for free, along with the code. And under a BSD-style license no less! And he’s continuing work on MozPlug, which makes me want to dance when I think about it.

Plus rumors that REALbasic 5 will support UDP Sockets. It’s all coming together.

Maybe Apple’s market share is

Maybe Apple’s market share is bigger than everyone says.

Vanity: My submission gets posted on MacSlash.

Here’s an unsettling tale. I guess we’re all supposed to rally around the guy looking at kiddie porn and feel sorry for him, but I don’t. You hurt kids, you pay. Even some of the most hardened criminals believe that.

Ten Rules of Common Sense Computing and Virus Defense.

Well, I’ll be. I didn’t

Well, I’ll be. I didn’t expect this. At least, not yet.

Apple stands alone against DRM.

Crazy Apple Rumors Site: iPod means something dirty in French.

Today I installed a Red Hat Linux 8 system. Wow! Linux has come a long way in the last couple years. The last time I tried to use Linux on the desktop was about two years ago, and despite my best efforts, it just sucked too much to use. I installed RH8 on a test server today and my first thought was, “This is nice enough to use as a desktop now.” Nice graphics, bundled OpenOffice.org, and Ximian Evolution is awesome.

But I’ll stick with OS X.