Month: <span>February 2000</span>

My PacBell DSL line was down for a couple of hours this morning. My appologies to anyone who was trying to get to J-Space or to send email to me at jake@jspace.org.

More news on the patent controversy on Scripting News, and on Davenet today. Also check out this list of controversial internet patents.

Excite News: Nude Shoppers Storm Store for Free Clothes

The Brainpan is number 46 on the new top 100 page views list at editthispage.com. Jeff is number 10.

I’m not going to use the unordered list thing on the homepage any more. It takes up too much horizontal space. Does it look better?

• Today’s survey: How many images are there on your site?
  

  How difficult the image management problem is seems to be an exponential function of how many images are on your site. How many do you have?

• Both Dave and Jeff pointed at the story I wrote yesterday about the farcical MSNBC program, The Summit in Silicon Valley. Thanks!
• How do you like the new look for my front page? Personally I think it’s a bit easier to read.

• I watched the Silicon Valley Summit on MSNBC tonight. While it was on, I logged on to MSNBC’s chat, and found it both interesting and frustrating…
• I highly recommend you sign up to NoWebPatents.org. I was the 49th person to enlist.
• Userland released code for that allows developers to create Manila Plugins. I’m going to have to play around some with this.
• I just created a new Manila site on my own server: manila.jspace.org. I’m gonna hack away! Come and join me!
• Seen on Scripting News:
  

  IBM patent site: Method of exercising a cat. “A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.” Oy!

  One would hope that IBM’s patent wouldn’t be infringed upon by this book.