• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On February 24, 2003

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Free multilingual Unicode font, anyone

Courtesy Typographi.ca, a pointer to Victor Gaultney’s Gentium project. Purpose: to build a free multilingual font to bring better typography to thousands of languages around the globe. I can think of no higher calling. I’ve revised my stylesheets so that Gentium is the preferred font for my article text. If you don’t have the font, [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On February 24, 2003

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Free wireless in Asheville

Doc Searls pointed to a report by Britt Blaser that Asheville is getting free wireless internet access—with WiFi, Bluetooth, and IrDA! So you can blog from the nearby Old Europe Coffee House or sync your Bluetooth or infrared cell phone or PDA. My parents aren’t going to get a direct benefit from this one, since [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On February 24, 2003

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Eating one’s own dogfood—with the customer

Dave continues to explore the joys of getting Userland’s flagship workgroup blogging solution, Manila, up and functional at Harvard. Today’s story captures him learning about a potential conflict between Frontier’s built-in web server and Microsoft IIS, if both are running on the same box. This is exactly the sort of thing that more software developers, [...]