ISSN 1496-3221
October 25, 2003
No matter how careful you are or how skillful you profess to be, there is absolutely no way to eat a pomegranate (Punica granatum) with any degree of grace and couth. I suppose I’d better go change my shirt before I leave the house this afternoon.
October 24, 2003
A crisp fall evening, the public release of an eagerly anticipated operating system update, and the bullshitless Mark Pilgrim to walk us briskly through the new and improved bits of Mac OS X Panther. What more could a Mac-head ask for except more time to play. I guess I’ll be staying up a little bit … More
October 20, 2003
Please be aware that the web site operated by the affable Mr Sixto and previously occupying the saintcaffeine.com domain (now squatted), has been officially relocated to it’s new, permanent home at saintcaffeine.ca. I would also like all of you to take careful note of the fact that not once did I mention that the reason … More
October 20, 2003
Seeing as I can hardly control myself, I’ve been nosing around Panther a bit more. Although it’s not the most significant change in this update, I thought the following redesign of the AppleScript Script Editor interface was — at the very least — worth a comparison with the Jaguar version. I’m not prepared to offer … More
October 18, 2003
Since my site gets about twenty-fold as many daily visitors as his does, I thought I’d help Jon out by mentioning that he’s looking at finding a good home for his G4-upgraded and very well maintanined Blue & White Power Mac. It’s vaccinations are up to date. Pretty much only driven on Sundays. Lots of … More
October 17, 2003
Rear end of whippet and lawn. Calgary.
October 17, 2003
Since it’s Friday and most of you are probably killing time surfing anyway, I thought I’d share a tidy little list of various utilities and system add-ons I’ve discovered I simply cannot live without. These bits of software continually make my OS X experience more efficient (and less likely to cause yearning pangs for OS … More
October 16, 2003
With a tip of the noggin’ topper to Jason Perkins and his handy-dandy RSS feed, the available domain name of the week just happens to be stinter.com
October 15, 2003
I love it when software vendors actually manage to label an updater or patch so that you can tell what the heck it does by simply looking at the file name. So, what do you do? You say you fix an error where InDesign version 2.0.2 unexpectedly quits? And what’s your name? Ah. Why, thank … More
October 15, 2003
Hey smart people, I need your help. I am looking for answers to two relatively minor OS X issues. First of all, does anyone know of a way to increase the number of concurrent connections in Safari? More often than not I am finding that the default number of four is a bit limiting. The … More