Monthly Archives: June 2003
Verizon Drops Opposition To Number Portability
Wu-hoo! Verizon, who has been a major opponent of forthcoming cell-phone number portability, has announced it will no longer be opposing the November implementation. Continue reading
Netscape 4 Must DIE!
My loathing of Netscape 4.x increases daily. It is the only browser that requires extensive backward-compatible HTML code changes in order to render pages correctly. Microsoft has pretty successfully upgraded most users away from the IE 4.x branch, yet there … Continue reading
Court Upholds Cell Phone Portability!
Consumers scored a rare victory last Friday (6 June 2003) as the “US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the legality of a pending regulation from the Federal Communications Commission, known in the cell phone industry as … Continue reading
Thumbs Up for ClearType
I recently upgraded my main Win2k box to WinXP. When XP first arrived I figured I would stay with Win2k until Longhorn shipped. After all, Win2k and WinXP share essentially the same NT 5 engine, and Win2k is fairly stable … Continue reading
Comcast introduces HDTV to SF Bay Area
It would seem that Comcast will start to offer HDTV to about half their Bay Area customers within the next week. I guess my calls weren’t in vain. They plan to offer local ABC, NBC, PBS, HBO and Showtime. They … Continue reading
Transition to WordPress complete
B2 is now WordPress and development on this blog software continues. The upgrade/transition was painless and the Smarty Template Engine is on the way. Huzzah!