Went and saw I, Robot last night … I knew it was not going to be anything like the stories in Asimov’s book – it’s only “based on” the book … so I didn’t have much of an expectation about the movie. Always a good way to approach these things I think. I was quite … [Read More »]
Archives for August 2004
Temporary Wellingtonian
I’m off travelling again, this time heading to Wellington, New Zealand to teach a Lotus Workplace class for some customers and business partners. I like Wellington, and if it weren’t for the weather, I’d be looking forward to going there more. This time of the year, it’s just plain hard work visiting a place like … [Read More »]
WindowsXP SP2 is ready
Scot Finnie writes a newsletter about lots of different types of technology – delivered by email once a month or so. Amongst other things, he has had extensive coverage of the upcoming WindowsXP Service Pack 2 – which according to his special edition newsletter, is now available – kind of ! I suggest you read … [Read More »]
Multiple select options in HTML forms
*sigh* … I just wasted a couple of hours trying to work out why a simple HTML form with a SELECT control that allowed multiple options was not POST-ing an array of those selected options to be processed by the script. Even the specs don’t mention anything about this. No matter what i tried, the … [Read More »]
Security updates for Mozilla products
Via MozillaZine: mozilla.org today released minor upgrades to three of its major products. Firefox 0.9.3, Thunderbird 0.7.3 and Mozilla 1.7.2 are all now available. These three new releases were created to correct 4 possible security vulnerabilities in past versions of each product.