ben lowery

A long, long time ago in a distant university, I took a class
called
Human Factors in Computing,
taught by the energetic Paul Green.
In this class, we had to mock up different interfaces to a device that
would allow the user to set the time on a digital clock. I wanted to use
the then fresh-faced DHTML, but wise old Prof Green pointed the class
in the direction of HyperCard
instead, insisting that we use it.

For all my misgivings, HyperCard proved to be a worthy little tool in mocking up our interfaces.
In many ways, I liked it better than DHTML. It just worked, no cross-browser support, no stupid spec. Just
nice little programs that let you move digits up and down

Sadly, I learned today that
HyperCard has
been decommissioned. Farewell my little stack,
so full of love and eager to please. You will be missed.

Hurwitz pointed me at a site detailing out a woman’s
rides
through Chernobyl. The photos are flat out amazing.

So I’m finally actually using my compression module to compress my own site. I am lame for waiting this long to do it.

The rugby dude is finally falling down the blog. Just a few more posts and we’ll all be rid of him.

I really need to upgrade dasBlog so I can edit posts. Dennis really needs to finish upgrading arena1.com to net-1.1 so I can do that.

sigh

After releasing version 4 of HttpCompress, I received some mail from Ian Anderson that contained some bug fixes that he found, along with one originally discovered by Simon Fell. Now that I have a nice little Subversion repo for the project, integrating the changes and making a release was pretty simple.

You can grab version five over here.