Month: March 2004

Hmm, 40 doesn't feel any different . . . so far.

Cool Tool Alert. Cogitum Co-Citer ” 'There's a stone cold freebie (no ads, spyware, etc) called 'Cogitum Co-Citer', available for download here. Once installed, when you're at a site where you want to save some text, you simply highlight the desired text, right-click to get the pop-up context menu, then select 'Grab the selected text'.… Continue reading Cool Tool Alert

TextPipe Pro – text manipulation component. Industrial strength text extraction, conversion and transformation workbench. Data mine unstructured reports and web pages; modify data extracts, convert between mainframe and PC formats By Simon Carter. [CodeCentral Delphi entries]

Longhorn Reloaded.  About two months ago, I started warning folks to watch for a major Windows Longhorn retrenchment in early 2004. I had expected Microsoft to seriously rethink its larger Longhorn strategy and make changes potentially as colossal as .Net. Around the beginning of the millennium, Microsoft made .Net into a “bet the company” strategy,… Continue reading Longhorn Reloaded

Disney Dissidents Rebuke Eisner, Denying Him 43% of Vote. Analysts said the vote against the chairman and chief executive was almost certain to force the board to make some changes. By Kenneth N. Gilpin. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Introduction to Rave Reports – Part I: Code Based Reports. This is a introduction to Rave Reports. Part I describes how to work with Code Base reports. – by Leonel Togniolli [BDN Delphi entries]

Introduction to Rave Reports – Part II: Visual Designer. This is a introduction to Rave Reports. Part II describes how to work with the Visual Designer – by Leonel Togniolli [BDN Delphi entries]

The BDN Guide to RSS – by Craig Stuntz. A simple introduction to using the BDN RSS feeds and writing applications which produce or consume RSS. [BDN Delphi entries]

How the Mars Rovers Phone Home. When Spirit or Opportunity have data to send, they don't go the direct route. Orbiters and various other bits of hardware help get their messages to Earth. By Philip Chien. [Wired News]

Calvin and Hobbes Strip Search. IMO, Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest comic strip ever made (Bloom County and Pogo tie for second place). So you can imagine how happy I was to find the Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search, which enables keyword searching of every Calvin and Hobbes comic. Want to see all… Continue reading Calvin and Hobbes Strip Search