Hypothetically Speaking....

... if there were a Safari v62, and it did happen to leak to the public, and someone did happen to run it, and that person did happen to discover a bug with text-decoration, well then I would hypothetically be most grateful, and would in fact fix such a bug with the utmost expedience. In fact, it might even be fixed already, assuming of course there were such a build, and it did in fact have this problem.

[Surfin' Safari]

I've just played a little with the last release of Zoë. It's an amazing example of what you can achieve using open standards.

Just to give a few examples: Zoë is a mail management tool, it's web based, so you use HTTP to control it, and it sychronizes with your email client using POP, IMAP and SMTP. It incorporates an FTP server, so you can connect to the running tool and mount a volume containing your email attachments. It also creates an RSS feed of your mail and, with this last release, it includes an RSS aggregator. The tools also supports Blogger and MetaWeblog API, so you can interact with it with tool such as Radio UserLand or NetNewsWire. Of course, all this stuff can get back to your email client, and you can post to your weblog email messages trough the RSS feed...

I still have to figure out what else can be done with it, anyway it's definetly a very interesting approach.

It turns out IIS was running on that machine.

We turned it off.

That should nail it.

[Scripting News]

We are running a few Windows 2000 servers with Frontier. We have always turned off all Microsoft Internet stuff. It's amazing how stable Windows become without more Microsoft code running on top of it.

Why Did Google Want Blogger? Wired News' Leander Kahney talks to Dieselpoint CEO Chris Cleveland, whose company worked with Pyra Labs last year, for the answer.

Cleveland said Google's acquisition of Pyra would, quite simply, help Google create a more accurate search engine by adding rich new sources of data gleaned from weblogs...The secret, Cleveland said, is in the scores of links webloggers create every day to content on the Web.

[megnut]

Uh... yes but... did they really need to buy Pyra to get access to this content?

This morning I have learned that the father of my friend and partner, Simone, has suddenly died. Simone's wife has asked me to forward the news to the rest of this community.

For those of us who live so intensely this life on-line receiving the support from the people we know, even only by reading each other's weblog, is quite important.

So, these few lines are here to express our love for Simone and his family.

Too bad that you end up with useless film.

This morning we had a little ceremony where I signed the papers to sell my house. Tomorrow the money will arrive in my bank account. No more mortgage payments or property taxes. I have sixty days to vacate. Now the next big thing to do is to decide what to do with all the crap I've accumulated, then drive to Boston. Whew.

[Scripting News]

Drive to Boston? Cool, take some time and your camera: we're going to have a the first trans-american blog (at least... the first I know of).

It's indeed a very cool service, using TouchGraph visualization tools and Blogstreet neighborhood system. Definetly worth a visit.

Yesss!

Since part of my business is related to Radio UserLand, the first reaction has of course been "God... now what?".

But then, I must say I'm optimistic (somebody once said that all entrepreneurs are optimistic, otherwise they would be doing something else).

Having such a big player in the game is probably going to be good for this market, adding new energy and money to the general effort. A growing market is good for all its players and since, at least so far, Google has not been leveraging on its de facto monopoly on the search engine business, so I don't see why they should do it on the weblogging tools business.

To the contrary, just like Google is today providing a vital infrastructure for the web, they will probably be able to boost the development of new (open!) standards that are definitely needed and that will help making the blogosphere a better integrated environment. I'm talking about RSS, track back, better commenting system, IM integration and other applications that still have to be dreamed.

With its Google APIs, they have shown that they understand this new era much better than other large companies and I believe that if they will keep an open approach they will be able to make this whole market a better environment.

So, again, welcome Google, seriously.

Dave wrote this piece about the current situation. I must say that I strongly disagree, mostly because it gets to a sort of personal level that so many times has been criticized on scripting.com pages.

I don't think that France, Germany and millions of people around the world, including in the US, are against the United States or its people. They are against this war.

Sure, there are many reasons to remove Saddam Hussein from its position, I think that nobody argues about this and nobody is trying to defend him for what he has done to his people. He was put there, armed and financed by the US, but that happened long ago, during another war: the Cold War.

Just like Saddam, there are many other dictators around the world, doing even worse than what Saddam Hussein is doing, and still, nobody is sending troops to remove them.

The US Government appears to be willing to start this war even without the support of the UN, meaning against the will of many other countries. Doesn't seem very democratic to me.

There's September 11. But nobody has so far demonstrated in any satisfactory way a link between the Saddam's regime and the terrorists, also if apparently there are links between the strong presence of Western forces on Arab soil since the first Gulf War and the development of terrorist groups such as Al Quaeda. But anyway, before bombing a country and killing lots of innocent people I would like to have something stronger than a few hints here and there.

Yes, because this is what we are talking about, a war. It's not only about removing Saddam Hussein, it's about bombing a country and, like it or not, killing hundreds or thousands of innocent people who had the bad luck of being in that part of the world. Think about it.

Saddam Hussein has to step down and possibly to respond for what he has done, no doubt about it. Is it making a war the only way to achieve this result? I'm not as sure as many Americans seems to be. Maybe because since I'm European I'm naturally scared by brutal and hypocritical wars.

Since the end of WW2, after most of Europe has been liberated by the last brutal regimes by the Americans and the other allied forces (no, nobody forgets here, we have hundreds of thousands of dead bodies buried under large and small bright monuments almost everywhere), European countries did something that never happened before: we build a union without wars, peacefully. A union that now shares not only a currency but most of all many values, laws and freedom.

Let's think seriously about all this, it's not about France and Germany vs. the US, it's about a war. I don't see any evident reason to rush this whole thing and not trying harder to find a different solution. Think.

Matt created a simple Radio macro that makes managing such table very simple, and now everybody can download the macro and use it on their weblogs.

Good people, good tools, good communication. Welcome to the real world.

PS: the macro only works if your weblog's background color is white.

metaWeblog.newMediaObject is a new XML-RPC method that weblog systems may support. It’s part of the MetaWeblog API.

It allows external editors to upload images, movies, and so on to weblogs. NetNewsWire doesn’t support this yet, but it will. [inessential.com]

This is very interesting, it opens a huge window of opportunities for weblogging applications and content management systems in general. Can't wait to see what kind of tools will be developed around this XML-RPC method.

Megnut likens US foreign policy to Don Corleone in The Godfather. "Some day, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me." [Scripting News]

Yes, it's indeed similar. A detail not to be overlooked is that the Mafia is not the romantic thing you see in beautiful movies. But it sounds indeed a similar situation.

The United States has long used the tactic of dropping leaflets on potential military targets in an attempt to win the people's hearts and minds. In a twist on that practice, the U.S. military sends e-mail to Iraqis -- which Iraq promptly blocks. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

In other words: SPAM wars.

Safari Update 2-12-03 improves compatibility with popular web sites, displays web pages and Flash content more quickly, adds XML support, increases standards conformance and improves stability. The update also works with self-signed security certificates.

Here's Matt Mower and me in my home/office in Gradisca now. We've done a lot of planning about future products and development in the last two days. Very cool. We also plan to buy a castle, but this of course will happen after the new products

Can somebody please make sure that they at least know where Iraq is? It is not that boot-shaped country in the Mediterranean... [via Network Games]

PS: In the caser you're wondering, that's NOT Switzerland.

In the last days I've been receiving spam trough the spam free mail service on this weblog. Somebody must have figured out how to do it, or is manually doing it. Also if my email address is not exposed, it's pretty annoying. We should find a way to prevent this from happening. Any idea?

Will the animation giant dump Disney for a more profitable deal? [The Motley Fool]

Looks like Steve's other toy is doing well.

I still remember the days when we were using Pixar's RenderMan software to render 3D models using an old NeXT Color Station. and Pixar was still software company.

Microsoft is jealous (and scared of) of Slash Dot and Scripting News. [Scobleizer]

Very interesting piece on Microsoft and how they manage communities and PR. I don't think that they will ever get it...

Your Thoughts Go Here.

Ok, so let's try an experiment. If you want to give me GUI feedback on Safari, post a comment or a trackback in response to this blog entry. I will read the comments and follow all trackbacks for information about what changes/additions you'd most like to see in Safari. If you have a non-GUI request, e.g., some specific CSS flaw or DOM flaw that you feel should be really high priority, you can post here too.

[Surfin' Safari]

Everybody's asking for Tabbed Browsing, what about a cool WYSIWYG editor for this browser? Think that it would make Safari the default browser for all blog and browser-based CMS users. It has to be easy for the users. It has to be easy for the developers. Let me just add a parameter to a TEXTAREA tag, and have WYSIWYG enabled. I bet that all developers would immediately implement it.

Safari already has Spell Checking working. Now we want WYSIWYG.

This morning my IM client of choice, Proteus, did not start up. At first I thought it was related to a system update, I tried to check if there was a newer version available on the author site, but the site was not responding (it looks like a DNS configuration problem)

When later I found out that none of my co-workers could get on line I realized that at startup the application was placing a call to the server, and not getting a response it would not finish the process and crash (I don't think that the application is trying to send any personal info, most probably it's just check for newer versions of the software).

Mapping the indigofield.com domain name to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file temporarily fixed the problem and reminded me how not only people, but also servers are "temporary" .

If anybody has any information about what happened to Justin Wood and his site, please post a comment below, his software is simply great. Thanks.

Scott Rosenberg: "I don't think broadband transforms the Web experience; it just fixes it. Broadband makes the Web work the way it's supposed to." [Scripting News]

Amen!

Today I got my adsl line updated to 1Mbs. It feels just right.

imbroglio: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. imbroglio [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

Italian contributions to the English language...

I'm waiting for my news aggregator to make its hourly run. Still 10 minutes to go. I could force it to scan all feeds now, but then... I would have to wait for 70 minutes for the next update. Unless I force it again. No, I must resist. 10 more minutes. I can do it...

The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm: The Sapphire Worm was the fastest computer worm in history. As it began spreading throughout the Internet, it doubled in size every 8.5 seconds. It infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable hosts within 10 minutes.

It looks like nobody is safe. Even if you don't use any Microsoft application or OS, you can still be put off-line by badwidth saturation. Whew...

• Commander Rick D. Husband (second flight),
• Pilot William C. McCool (first flight),
• Payload Specialist Michael P. Anderson (second flight),
• Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla (second flight),
• Mission Specialist David M. Brown (first flight),
• Mission Specialist Laurel B. Clark (first flight),
• Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, Israel (first flight)