This is BrainLog, a blog by Dan Sanderson. Older entries, from October 1999 through September 2010, are preserved for posterity, but are no longer maintained. See the front page and newer entries.

March 1, 2000

New feature for the SubHonker Filter: Internet Explorer users can now use this bookmarklet, "SHF Pane", to open a special SHF in the Search pane! Drag it to your Links bar for extra convenience. (Many thanks Anil Dash for suggesting this.)

Wow, neat! Internet Explorer TEXTAREA fields have Ctrl-Z undo. I did not know that! (Almost makes up for Backspace == Back button. Almost.)

Neale, for the love of God, please continue to have too much time on your hands.

The Echelon Demo Room lets you control actual appliances and watch them over a web cam. Just a few lights and an electric window shade. TV coming soon!

Net4music, finally operational, hopes to be the world's resource for downloadable sheet music and MIDI files. Most of the stuff you would expect, like pretty much all sheet music, requires payment, such as Bach's Invention 1, BWV 772 for $3 US. This pre-release Wired story (from Dec 1) has more info. (The Wired article has an old link that Net4music was using for their pre-release; use this one instead.)

towelette.com points to... huh? And with this whois record... I don't get it. (Oh, duh, NT server default page. Right?)

The Credit Card Alarm makes noise when you take your credit card out of your wallet, and won't stop until you return it.