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Having flash-backs to the early days of the web this evening (wanted some images of NCSA Mosaic for a project); ended up routing around ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic where all the old Mosaic code is archived. Being of nerd extraction the obvious thought struck me - could I get Mosaic to run now on my OS X Leopard box. Five minitues later and Mosiac 3.0 for windows was up and running through Darwine and I’m surfing the web 90’s style. Poor old thing crashes quite a bit, but that’s to be expected there’s been a lot of changes on the web in the past fifteen years.

Those clever VisiBone people; the ones that create the lovely web colour charts etc. have come out with a beautiful map of the world that includes two letter internet country codes along with lots of other interesting details. The larger of the maps available is 122 x 61 cm (48 x 24 inch). So if you have ever wanted to know where .no is or wanted to register under .as, vie for a .vi address or join the crowed with a .me or .to, or get yourself on .tv now you can see where you have to go to get the right address. Note to .us, yes there is a whole world out there beyond .com so Fareoe Islands to you my friends.

This is my first blog entry useing the iPod Touch WP App - V cool - check it out at the iTunes App store for free.

Australians can opt-out of street view according to Google’s Rob Shilkin. Who says we’re paranoid - its a conspiracy!

Google have released “Street View” on Google maps right across this wide brown land of ours. So you can see my house from here. We’ll its not my house now, but the one I was born in.

http://tinyurl.com/6bw4gy

Adobe have released their latest incarnation of Dreamwever as a public beta. I’m looking forward to playing with the CS4 incarnation of the web’s premier WYSIWYG development tool.

Adobe, Developer Connection, Logged In

A large number of blogs are alive wit the news that OS X 10.5.3 has a little pressy in it for G-Mail users, in the form of the ability to Sync G-Mail contacts with Address Book. These same blogs are bitching that the feature is for “iPhone users only”. Well I don’t have an iPhone and it works for me. I do have a Windows Mobile 6 device and MissingSync, as well as all sorts of other weird sync/iPhone SDK software etc. so I don’t know why it works for me sans-iPhone.

References:
Lifehaker Australia
Offical Google Mac Blog

Having a 5 year old son who is showing an interest in TV shows and Movies containing martial arts I recently went on the hunt for info (DVDs) of one of my favorite shows from my teen years Monkey (aka Monkey Magic). The sad piece of information I discover was that Masako Natsume (夏目 雅子) the Japanese actress who played Tripitaka, the boy Priest, died tragically aged 27 from acute leukemia.

Wikipedia has a little entry on Natsume which has links to a sight about her burial monument and  the Sunflower Foundation, a cancer organization dedicated to Natsume.

Can I still blame her for having a thing about cute, bald Asian women?

When Apple recently released updates to the iWork ‘08 suite (Keynote, Pages & Numbers) I diligently downloaded and attempted to install the updates only to be faced with the above error message. Several Googles and the usual annoying number of “me toos” later I found the “please shoot me now”, oh so simple, solution. iWork ‘08, by default, installs these apps into an “iWork 08″ folder under the Applications folder. If you move the apps, which I had (because every other Apple app goes straight into Applications - doesn’t it!), the updater can’t find them. I reinstalled iWork ‘08 to its default folder (you probably could just move them) and low and behold the updater worked.

N.B. The same can apply to other Mac apps. So from now on I’m going to leave them in their default folder and if I want to be able to launch them from, say the Applications folder, I’m going to use sim-links.

Mother [classy English Accent] has dusted off her History degree. Seems working for the Government in Canberra is loosing its allure after some twenty odd years. National Library of Australia News reports: “Marion Amies reflects on the changing fortunes of Henry and Frances Jones of Binnum Binnum station in the mid 1800s”.