July 2003 Archives
Apple's Cougar, Lynx, Leopard and Tiger July 31, 2003 - According to Microsoft Watch the likely code names for the next Mac OS X are Cougar, Lynx, Leopard or Tiger. These are the names field as the U.S. patent office. I wonder why the Microsoft Watch site is interested in…
Even Barbie has her own Blog July 30, 2003 - Yes, even Barbie har her own blog. It doesn’t look much like a web page to me. Its merely a pointer to a flash object. Anyway,… I guess its targeted for their prime audience….
Repetition 2 - Reloaded July 29, 2003 - I just entered my final photo to the fuji mugs challenge. Tomorrow I have to bring the camera back which I borrowed from another contester. I took about 50 snapshots. And this is one of them:just kidding; 28 july 2003;…
Questioning Extreme Programming; ISBN: 0201844575 July 29, 2003 - I just finished the book and it took me a long time. Its nice to see that someone dears to question extreme programming and write a book about it in the ‘extreme programming’ series. I personally feel the same with…
Ooh you dangerous !DOCTYPE July 29, 2003 - While starting to change my site form table based layout to css based layout I first got into problems with the DOCTYPE. IE6 doesn’t render it exactly as Mozilla 1.4 does. My sidebar used the complete width of the page…
Under the Dutch Clouds July 24, 2003 - dutch clouds 1, 2 & 3; july 2003; netherlands; © janco tanis…
Some amazing browser components by IBM July 24, 2003 - Some really amazing browser components can be previewed on IBM. A Document Management Prototype is shown, which has a spreadsheet, an editor and a presentation component. I have been runing them under Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla Firebird 0.6. As…
SCO Extorting Unixware Licenses to Linux Users? July 23, 2003 - On Slashdot I found out that SCO wants to sell everyone using Linux a special license. It looks that SCO wants to prove they are in their rights by making all these kinds threads. I think they should just shut…
Number one on Google July 22, 2003 - I didn’t know it was that easy to get number one in the search ranks. Last week I added the scoop of the new Nikon D2H (which is released today). After adding the rumour to my site on saturday 12…
CoolPix 5700 Biking at ISO 800 July 20, 2003 - We did some biking with the little girl today. I made some shots in action from my bike! The shots were taken at ISO 800. This returns an awfull lot of noise; almost useless if you want to crop it…
Nikon D2H images July 18, 2003 - I found some images for the new Nikon D2H. Not sure if these are real or fake.Some specs:d2h 5mpixd2x 10mpixwifilarge bufferNikon D2H front…
www.jancology.com is active July 17, 2003 - This week I setup the www.jancology.com domain. From today it redirects directly to this site jancotanis.xs4all.nl. Now I need to find out if I can host my own domain names, email and if I have the right hard/software to do…
Netscape R.I.P. July 16, 2003 - AOL laid of 50 netscape developers according to Daniel Glazman’s Glazblog. So will Netscape 7.1 be the last version of the browser? So will de Mozilla development slow down? Has the anouncement of the mozilla foundation something to do with…
Thanks Team! July 15, 2003 - Heay! How did you all know that orange is my favourite color?! I like it very much and, as the label says: \some work. lots of fun!\Very special thanks to (in alphabetic order):anilaravindabyjujohnlalitasharathsurya…
He who reinvents the wheel... July 15, 2003 - He who re-invents the wheel, understands much better how a wheel works. This must be a quote of an IT developer! As they (we) always like to do things different next-time……
Epson ink-tanks July 15, 2003 - In Holland there is a big discussion about epson having there ink-cartridge shutoff by software, which leaves in the the tank which cannot be used. Epson claims that this is necessary because otherwise the print head can be damaged if…
How to draw the attention of users. July 15, 2003 - Not that I’m an expert in search engines, I even don’t now much about them but from my statistics I definately see that having the right content matters! Last saturday I added the rumour of the Nikon D2H being released….
abstract smoking July 12, 2003 - abstract smoking; 10 july; heathrow, terminal four; © janco tanis…
'We' are pregnant! July 12, 2003 - My wife is pregnant!we are very happy that our daughter will get a sister or brother…we don’t know the name (yet)…we don’t know when it will be born on-the-minute exactly…we expect delivery early december 2003 if all went right…we know…
The next Digital Nikon D2H July 12, 2003 - On July 22, Nikon will introduce the successor to the D1H. It’s called the D2H. According to Chasseur d’Images (translation in english). There were lots of rumours that Nikon whould change it’s famous F-mount, but this is NOT true. The…
Mini Word Editor on the Web (dhtml) July 11, 2003 - After rolling out a web application my customers asked for a fancy MS word editor instead of those raw-textareas. I said it wasn’t possible and proposed to use the usenet kind of markup to get *bold*, _underline_ and /italics/. But…
My patches to greymatter (volume I) July 8, 2003 - I also gave it a try to be XHTML compliant. A quick check showed me that there were at least 2 problems. url which include a number or parameters concatenated by & will not be strict XHTML The build in…
GeoURL July 8, 2003 - check out my neighbors in cyberspace……
Nikon Coolpix 5400 Review posted on dpreview July 8, 2003 - Today the Nikon Coolpix 5400 Review was posted on the Digital Photography Review site. The 5400 is the successor of the 5000. It still has the best things of the old model like excelent Macro capabilities (1 cm minimal distance)…
Famous quotes July 8, 2003 - If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee. — Lady Astor And if I were your husband I would drink it. — Churchill…
News aggregator July 7, 2003 - I now know what to do with my rss file! AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator. This makes it possible to select a number of rss feeds and to compile news! Not too important for me…
Funny link July 5, 2003 - Thanks to gezever I found this link: Check your Windows Browser…
RSS news feed July 4, 2003 - Just added my RSS 0.92 compatible news feed. I have (almost) no clue what its adds to this site but what the heck, it looks quite neat to have it anyway!…
My server uptime is back down to zero July 4, 2003 - Last monday my electricity supplier decided they needed to cut down the electricity for an hour. As my webserver is not backed by a UPS it went down and came back up when the electricity was back. This ruined my…
Whenever anyone asks me July 4, 2003 - Whenever anyone asks me how to spell any word I reply, “I-L-L-I-T-E-R-A-T-E.”…
A new service hits the market July 3, 2003 - A new service for web developers hit the market recently. The BrowserCam will show you your site in ‘any’ browser on a number of different operating systems.This seems much better then trying to install 4 different versions of Internet Explorer…
localpics.com July 2, 2003 - For people thinking that San Francisco is one of the better cities in the us (like me). You might wanna have a look at localpics.com which has a gallary of SF architacture images. If you’ve been there you will surely…
Hama wideangle convertor, continued... July 2, 2003 - I’ve now taken two shots at home with and without the convertor….
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