inessential by Brent Simmons

3/04/2000

Eric Soroos is pretty impressed -- so far -- with Mozilla M14. I haven't tried it yet, but I probably will within the next few days.

oreilly.com: Why I Promote Python: "I want to live in a world where most software is written in a decent programming language. Java is decent, and I don't mind it. Therefore I don't begrudge its success. But I consider it a proprietary language surrounded by a re-invent-the-wheel culture."

I ordered contact lenses from 1800contacts.com last night. I was expecting it to be weird and difficult -- but it was easy. For the record, my contact lens parameters are: pwr -7.50; bc 8.4; dia 14.4. That's pretty much all you have to know, those three numbers, to be able to place an order.