TRW/Ball Aerospace were awarded the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) contract by Nasa. the NGST is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The new space-based observatory will be known as the James Webb Space Telescope. There are schematic drawings and more details in the article over at Space.com.
today was amy’s birthday !!!! woohoo … my fiance turned 25 today. unfortunately we had to attend a funeral in indiana today as well. her great grandmother passed last week at the age of 97. that makes 2 years in a row that we’ve been doing something on her birthday other then relaxing and celebrating. last year my cousin james got married in michigan. oh well, maybe next year. it wasn’t to bad of a day though. i got to see a new part of indiana and we ate at amish acres. talk about great food, i’d love to eat there again … now i just need a reason to drive to that part of the state again.
I received my copy of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web the other day. Just skimming through it and reading the first chapter I like what I’ve read. I’ll let you know how it reads when I actually get more time to dive into it. I’m trying to knock out a few novels I’ve bought recently. I have a few shelves of books that I’ve been dying to read but only recently had train time to do it.
The W3C has released a working draft of Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web. The goal of this document is to “establish a reference set of principles for Web architecture
.” The document does a good job highlighting those principles, best practices, and goes into some detail explaining identifiers, formats, and protocols. This is a good reference and starting point for someone who’s interested in understanding Web architecture.
Seems that the mighty eBay may be in a bit of legal trouble. I guess someone else owns a few patents to online auctions and eBay isn’t playing nice with the little folks. Valid fight of yet another story of goliath trying to stomp on david?
There’s a very thorough review of Mac OS 10.2, code named Jaguar, over at Ars Technica. It always amazes me the depth this site goes into its reviews. While other sites are basically duplication of white-papers and corporate distributed advertisements, Ars Technica consistently digs into the product to give a technical, neutral, and thorough review. I’m both impressed with Ars Technica and Jaguar.
The latest edition of Digital Web Magazine has an interview with Steven Champeon and Shirley Kaiser of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). It also has an excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman which is scheduled to be released in early 2003. The piece is entitled “99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete.” In the article he explains how this is due to the legacy markup used to make web pages usable in ancient browsers. Hacks upon hacks are often used to fix browser bugs and inconsistencies. It’s all about that elusive “backwards compatibility” that corporate executives so often ask for but don’t understand. As usual Jeff makes some great points that don’t attempt to sugar coat things like some people do. Let’s just hope that my sites stay a part of that other 0.1%.
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