My title for this picture would be God Hates You.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Amusing results:
First, the obvious:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Republican 3,552,787 48.1%
Cruz Bustamante Democrat 2,379,740 32.2%
Tom McClintock Republican 979,234 13.3%
Peter Camejo Green 207,270 2.8%
And the others:
Larry Flynt Democrat 15,010 0.2%
Gary Coleman Independent 12,443 0.2%
Mary Cook Independent 9,716 0.1%
Leo Gallagher Independent 4,742 0.1%
That means that 4,742 people in California felt that the man best suited for the job of governor was some guy who smashes watermelons for a living. I guess that's no more far-fetched than who we got.
George Schwartzman Independent 10 0.0%
How does it feel to only get 10 votes? What, he couldn't even convince his own family to vote for him?
First, the obvious:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Republican 3,552,787 48.1%
Cruz Bustamante Democrat 2,379,740 32.2%
Tom McClintock Republican 979,234 13.3%
Peter Camejo Green 207,270 2.8%
And the others:
Larry Flynt Democrat 15,010 0.2%
Gary Coleman Independent 12,443 0.2%
Mary Cook Independent 9,716 0.1%
Leo Gallagher Independent 4,742 0.1%
That means that 4,742 people in California felt that the man best suited for the job of governor was some guy who smashes watermelons for a living. I guess that's no more far-fetched than who we got.
George Schwartzman Independent 10 0.0%
How does it feel to only get 10 votes? What, he couldn't even convince his own family to vote for him?
Monday, October 06, 2003
Forgive the technical post, but this is interesting. A while ago, Microsoft was sued by a company called Eolas over a patent infringement. Apparently ActiveX controls infringe their patent under most circumstances.
Microsoft is about to change Internet Explorer to get around this problem. ActiveX controls which load their data from a URL won't get loaded unless the user clicks OK on a dialog box that comes up. What a lame way for them to work out this patent issue!
Microsoft tells about the changes that are about to happen to IE here. IE will detect if you're loading external content by looking at the parameters to the plugin, and if it sees a URL, it'll pop up the dialog.
But then, Microsoft starts talking about another "new" feature to embedding that they're adding. It seems that you can now encode data to send into the plugin using Base64. Now, why would anyone need to encode a parameter in Base64? And why would Microsoft choose this announcement to document this feature? Could it be that you can use it to secretly send a URL into the plugin in a way that IE won't detect? Could it be that Microsoft is handing the world a convenient way around the patent? Nahh, has to be coincidence...
Incidentally, most pages incorporating Flash and Quicktime content will need to be changed as a result of this little spat between Microsoft and Eolas. But those of you using Viewpoint content won't have to change a thing! :-)
Microsoft is about to change Internet Explorer to get around this problem. ActiveX controls which load their data from a URL won't get loaded unless the user clicks OK on a dialog box that comes up. What a lame way for them to work out this patent issue!
Microsoft tells about the changes that are about to happen to IE here. IE will detect if you're loading external content by looking at the parameters to the plugin, and if it sees a URL, it'll pop up the dialog.
But then, Microsoft starts talking about another "new" feature to embedding that they're adding. It seems that you can now encode data to send into the plugin using Base64. Now, why would anyone need to encode a parameter in Base64? And why would Microsoft choose this announcement to document this feature? Could it be that you can use it to secretly send a URL into the plugin in a way that IE won't detect? Could it be that Microsoft is handing the world a convenient way around the patent? Nahh, has to be coincidence...
Incidentally, most pages incorporating Flash and Quicktime content will need to be changed as a result of this little spat between Microsoft and Eolas. But those of you using Viewpoint content won't have to change a thing! :-)
