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Last night I downloaded

August 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the new Netscape X 6.1 preview and you know what? It’s excellent. Fast, seems reasonably accurate so far, and it looks great. That makes two viable OS X browsers – or three, with Opera. Browsers that don’t support ECMAScript and CSS are just toys, not real web browsers. Sadly, that includes iCab, to date.

Tags: Browser, CSS, Opera, Review, Web

Fun! And good

August 9, 2001 by Michael Boyle

! David Lehman, The Questions of Postmodernism in Jacket # 4 from Australia. [via Caterina]

In case there is

August 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

any doubt, Cory Doctorow’s post about a parking lot, his grandmother’s worries, and network backups at Boing Boing is surely his best post ever! “And here I am, a pathological worrier in the guise of an sf writer. For me, the worry revolves around backup.”

Tags: Backup, Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow

Anyone know where

August 7, 2001 by Michael Boyle

I can get a good, large, royalty-free image of a tree? Preferably an Eastern White Pine?

Before Genoa, before Quebec City

August 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

, before Seattle there was the APEC meeting in Vancouver. Today, the report of the RCMP’s Commission for Public Complaints was leaked. It found that, “Federal officials played an ‘improper role’ in security arrangements at the 1997 APEC summit, occasionally bullying RCMP officials who were poorly prepared for the melee officers should have known was coming, says a long-awaited report into the incident.”

I should be noted, however, that the Commission for Public Complaints is pretty much toothless, and efforts by protesters to get a higher-level inquiry going were rebuffed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Tags: Canada, EFF, Protest, Quebec, Security, Test

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