This column is the perfect example of why magazines should edit online-only articles as well as the ones that get printed on dead trees. Or are the op-ed pieces in Dr. Dobb’s Journal this bad too?

It seems Mac OS X server isn’t ready for prime time. Too many requests for CGI programs causes the kernel to panic and crashes the machine.

BabyCenter is a really nice Web site (from a design point of view), with a fantastic e-commerce implementation at http://store.babycenter.com. The site was built using ATG’s Dynamo application server (at least from what I can tell by reading the job descriptions on the employment page), and the implemenation is very sleek and the site is extremely responsive.

Cool hardware gadget of the day: the PC Weasel 2000. It’s an ISA card you can stick on your PC so that all the bootup messages are piped out through the RS-232 port. Basically, this means that if you’re running a real operating system, you can perform every administrative task remotely.

I ordered a Palm IIIx today, so you can probably expect to see more links to Palm-oriented stuff here in the future. I’m pretty excited about getting my life organized, we’ll see if I fare better with this gadget than I did with the Day-Timer organizer I bought a few years ago.

There’s an interesting interview at WebWord with Danny Goodman about using JavaScript to improve site usability. It starts at a really basic level, so if you don’t know anything about JavaScript, this will get you started. Personally, I really dislike JavaScript (except for validating forms), but I understand it’s quite popular.

I downloaded Mozilla M6 tonight. It’s looking really, really good. In fact, it’s almost to the point where one could use it full time as their browser. It still has a few small glitches that prevent me from doing so (like difficulty with cut and paste).

Sun has released the reference implementation of Java Server Pages. They’re the perfect solution for people who are dissatisfied with Cold Fusion, PHP, Active Server Pages, iHTML, Meta-HTML, embPerl, and server-side JavaScript.

Michael Leventhal has declared war on XSL. He makes a strong case against XSL in the article, and I have to admit that I’ve always been anti-XSL, since Microsoft is the main party behind it. It really pisses me off that Microsoft eschewed adding standards-based XML styling with CSS to IE 5 in favor of their own proprietary implementation of XSL.

One thing I always disliked about using Unix on the desktop was the X windows environment. I’ve always found it to be kludgy, and I thought that all of the window managers were hard to configure, and difficult to use. Then I discovered WindowMaker. WindowMaker has really nice, clean lines, is incredibly easy to set up and configure, and is nice to use. The only downside is that it’s incredibly poorly documented (a failing common to a lot of free software). Maybe I’ll be able to write some documentation for it once I finish working on the book.