http://www.blankreb.com/jesselog.php Eclectic News en-us Copyright 2002, digitallyOBSESSED! September 2, 2002 http://www.blankreb.com/images/blankbadge.gif http://www.blankreb.com/jesselog.php http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/outlines/AudioBlogging.html This document is a quick and dirty collection of information related to the latest AudioBlogging frenzy. http://www.clubkasparov.com/serve/templates/folders/show.asp?p_docID=22440%26p_docLang=EN The Russian Team will comprise: Kramnik, Kasparov, Karpov, Khalifman,Morozevich, Bareev, Grischuk, Svidler, and Dreev (and the last place will be contested by Rublevsky, Zviagintzev or the current Russian Champion Alexander Motylev). http://www.salon.com/blogs/downloads/index.html What's a blog? A blog, or weblog, is a personal Web site updated frequently with links, commentary and anything else you like. New items go on top and older items flow down the page. Blogs can be political journals and/or personal diaries; they can focus on one narrow subject or range across a universe of topics. The blog form is unique to the Web -- and highly addictive. http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogware.htm there are actually two distinct types of software that have a claim to the word "weblog": * Weblog Publishing: This software lets users generate and publish static webpages that aren't personalized for each user, a cheap way to serve a lot of pages.%uFFCA Blogger and Movable Type both fall in this category. * Weblog Community: This software automatically generates personalized dynamic webpages on the fly, which works better for community features like comments and moderation.%uFFCA Slash, pMachine, and LiveJournal fall into this category. http://www.apple.com/scitech/appletech/dv/ Scientists and medical professionals are discovering how useful digital video can be in advancing their research, educating patients, or sharing ideas and techniques with colleagues. Digital video allows them to capture video using a digital video (DV) camcorder, manipulate the resulting files on a computer, and store the video on digital media such as FireWire drives. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Browser statistics are always interesting for website developers. What we can read from the current statistics, is that Internet Explorer is dominating the browser war, and that most users are displaying 800x600 pixels or more, with a color depth of at least 65K colors. http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=35109 summer and will include new applications and technology, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker reported. Headlining the list of new features are iChat, Apple's new instant messaging software; QuickTime 6, an upgrade of Apple's streaming media app; and Rendezvous, Apple's proposed new industry standard for automatic discovery of computers, devices and services on IP networks such as Ethernet and Apple AirPort. http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/event/eurotel02/unity.html The unity plan brings about a single unified Classical World Chess Champion within a one and a half year period. That opens the doors to a new World Chess Championship cycle inclusive of all the top chess players in the world. We realize that cooperation and support of all parties is necessary and that by setting aside personal interests we can achieve this goal. http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/18/index3a.html?tw=authoring It's at this point that a look of growing horror emerges on the young debutante's face, and she'll say: "Oh dear God in heaven. You're a weblogger, aren't you?" And I'll call out, "No, no, more of a personal online diarist!" but she's already gone, chatting up some hunk with the telltale swollen knuckles of a Java programmer. http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/teams/knicks/ The Knicks -- like so many teams -- will be on the lookout for a true center or at least a power forward who can command double-teams. The other gaping hole is at point guard, where it's possible the team's high first-round pick could bring in a difference-maker http://www.fide.com/cgi-bin/material/material.pl?detail=yes%26id_material=510089648 List of Qualifiers for the 2002 World Chess Grand Prix: 1. R. Ponomariov (UKR) 2. V. Ivanchuk (UKR) 3. V. Anand (IND) 4. P. Svidler (RUS) 5. E. Bareev (RUS) 6. B. Gelfand (ISR) 7. J. Lautier (FRA) 8. A. Shirov (ESP) 9. M. Adams (ENG) 10. A. Morozevich (RUS) 11. P. Nikolic (BIH) 12. V. Topalov (BUL) 13. J. Ye (CHN) 14. A. Dreev (RUS) 15. Z. Azmaiparashvili (GEO) 16. J. Ehlvest (EST) 17. G. Kasparov (RUS) 18. V. Kramnik (RUS) 19. P. Leko (HUN) 20. I. Smirin (ISR) 21. R. Kazimdzhanov (UZB) 22. L. Van Wely (NED) 23. A. Khalifman (RUS) 24. A. Karpov (RUS) 25. A. Grischuk (RUS) 26. P. Acs (HUN) http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4001%26db=macosx http://www.twcny.rr.com/technofile/texts/tec032402.html My Mac boots up right away, behaves itself all the time, knows how to deal with all sorts of files without a fuss, cruises the Internet without being invaded by Windows spyware or viruses, slips quietly into sleep mode and back again in less than two seconds, shuts down without giving me the Blue Screen of death -- ah, you can tell I am really acquainted with Windows, can't you! -- and never once tells me I have to surrender my identity to Microsoft in order to run the computer. (Windows XP users, listen up. This personal freedom is for you.) http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=12739%26db=macosx Vektor3 is a chess program for Mac OS X. It's features include a customizable chessboard with multiple piece sets, multiple documents, multithreading, support for variations, annotation editor with text styles, move annotations and diagrams, several playing levels, opening book, game analysis, position editor, PGN import and export, HTML publishing, speech, multiple undo and redo and HTML help including rules of chess. This upgrade: switched to Quartz text rendering, fixed a bug that could cause the View Game Service to crash, fixed printing offset bug