ISSN 1496-3221
July 15, 2003
First of all, I’d like to thank all those folks (who obviously have an enormous amount of extra cycles to burn) that took the time to tell me that the pages linked from my RSS feed looked — well — less than sexy. Last week, I explained the gruesome details of why the pages looking … More
July 14, 2003
The web seems to be chock full of tasty little gems today. Always one to share, I offer the following digital curios for your perusal. First up, here’s looking at you. The video conferencing capabilities of iChat AV may be all well and good, but I’m not quite ready to shell out for a new … More
July 11, 2003
Painted utility access in alley. Southeast, Calgary.
July 9, 2003
At long last, some wonderful soul has compiled the closest thing to a definitive list containing all the wonderfully obscure Macintosh keyboard sequences and startup modifiers. My favourite (and previously unbeknownst to me) key combination? That would have to be the pentadigit cmd-opt-shift-delete-octothorpe, where octothorpe represents the ID number of the SCSI device you want … More
July 9, 2003
Encouraged by the series of ‘What Panther Should Fix’ missives posted by Hadley Stern on his AppleMatters site, and the continually entertaining persnicketiness of the eminent Mr Gruber, I’ve been compiling my own grumpy list of things I’d like to see addressed when Panther finally pads into town later this year. I’m not asking for … More
July 4, 2003
July 3, 2003
You see son, that’s why we don’t go off installing prerelease operating systems all willy-nilly. Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t make it right. I mean, if Avie went and jumped himself off a bridge, would you?
July 3, 2003
Jack Mottram wrote in this morning, “…there’s something funny happening at splorp.com — whenever I click on a link to an entry to your weblog from NetNewsWire, the web page loads up without a good chunk of code — Doctype, head tags, etc. are all missing, and I am faced with an unstyled, navigation-free version … More
July 2, 2003
Listen, just because I got all excited about this new DevCenter article by Danny Goodman (yeah, I’m talking about that Danny Goodman…) entitled Super-Efficient Image Rollovers and couldn’t wait to start diving in head first, it doesn’t mean I’m a geek. Ok, maybe it does.
July 1, 2003
The recent spate of love it or hate it posturing around the latest iteration of the Mac OS X Finder is historically rooted in the ongoing search for the perfect file management environment. A search, I might add, that has been in progress since the introduction of the Mac. Of course, there is no such … More