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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day has been pretty cool recently. Yesterday, a composite photo of the moon and stars (you can see galaxies!), and today the moon and sun.

I’m not sure how I feel about composite photographs, but what the heck.

And for you folks at work, Ganymede.

A new issue of The Perl Journal is out, at long last.

Hey, you can send Jabber messages from a web page, thanks to a new little tool called the Jabber Web Pager. I’ll probably add this to afongen. Now, can I build a web-based chat system using Jabber?

I got the Qwest yellow and white pages on CD-ROM today. Qwest is running a test, sending some 64,000 of these out to see how they go. When I first read this, I was pretty psyched. I almost never use a hard copy of the phone book–they’re unwieldy, too-often out-of-date, and just a pain to keep around. On the other hand, I use qwestdex.com all the time. To have the directory available on CD, well that’s just downright handy.

Except that I don’t use Windows. It only runs on Windows. Way to go, Qwest.

Now, I understand to a point: if you’re gonna pick an OS to support, it probably oughta be Windows. Or maybe a Java VM, except that Windows XP has pulled Java support, hasn’t it? Still, this is damn annoying.

Anyone want a CD-ROM of the Minneapolis – Saint Paul phone directory? I’ve already offered it to a friend, but if he doesn’t want it then it’s up for grabs. Email me. And use my PGP key.

Update: The CD is spoken for.

Well, MAPE rejected the State’s “final” offer, so it’s looking more likely like they’ll strike.

Sigh.

Made a couple changes to the templates. Some minor CSS fixes to deal with problems I was finding with Netscape 4. Now it’s at least legible in NS4, even if it’s not perfect. I never expect perfection from NS4. Also, you might have noticed the little “open links in new window” box. Doesn’t serve much of a purpose, but I thought it was kinda cute so brought it back.

Mozilla: Gecko DOM reference.