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February 9, 2006
Pardon the dust. I’m mucking about with the CSS on this sorry excuse for a personal site. The plan is to migrate away from the current steaming pile of table-plagued, almost nearly valid markup over to some sort of XHTML loveliness before the end of this month. This plan is similar to the one that … Read the rest of this item
January 26, 2006
A wonderfully succinct (and accurate) story about the complexity, nostalgia, and joy of using a Newton by Marcus Hammerschmitt.
January 10, 2006
Between Kodak’s recent corporate banality upgrade and the best Christmas toy ever, I’m very close to letting go of my flexible substrate-based exposed emulsion habits once and for all. The reason? My (insert appropriately flattering adjective here) wife surprised me by stuffing a brand-spanking new Canon EOS 20D under the tree. Eight-plus megapixels worth of … Read the rest of this item
Enough about the keynote already. Ok, maybe not quite yet. I have to get this out of my system… MacBook Pro? What kind of lame-butt, patronizing brandsludge is that? Feh. I guess Jonathan Ive doesn’t sit in on the product branding meetings. If somebody nonmenclated one of my hardware designs like that, I’d have to … Read the rest of this item
December 22, 2005
Who’s heading to Macworld this January? Hands please. Why not kick around town over the weekend and join some of your PDA-toting peers at the 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference in San Francisco. The event is conveniently scheduled directly following Macworld Expo, from January 13 — 15, 2006. The conference program is still a state of … Read the rest of this item
December 12, 2005
So, what’s been keeping me quieter than usual over the past few weeks? The redesign and full-body massage over at the day job, for one thing. No, it’s not quite standards-compliant yet (but it’s a damn sight closer than it used to be). And yes, I realize that the orange logo is gone (sorry folks, … Read the rest of this item
November 28, 2005
As promised, the mighty folks at Fontlab shipped Fontographer for Mac OS X. I will sound like an incurably desperate type geek when I say this, but… I can’t even begin to express my pleasure surrounding this event. I really can’t. There’s a discussion to peruse over at Typophile and a demo version to download … Read the rest of this item
November 7, 2005
While muddling my way through a thousand or so autoreplies after sending out a Veer email newsletter, I came across what has got to be the strangest (and yet, the cutest) verification message ever. This is definitely one way to smack down the screen scrapers and dictbots that spammers use to get around sender verification … Read the rest of this item
October 28, 2005
Sweet mother of crap. After several years in software stasis (and quite frankly stating that he wasn’t even working on Macs anymore…) the indubitably talented Turly has resurfaced with an OS X savvy version of FinderPop. This contextual menu extension still makes my life more pleasant during those regressions back to OS 9 and Classic … Read the rest of this item
October 18, 2005
Stewart Smith (working under the canopy of the brilliant Stewdio) has taken two things I enjoy and mashed them together in a simply wonderful way. Frankly, this is one of those things you wish you had thought up yourself. This home-brew video for a song from Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump album uses a vintage Apple … Read the rest of this item