John Gruber at Daring Fireball points to a post at Wired Up And Fired Up concerning
Monthly Archives November 2006
Boot Camp Miracles
Miracles, black boxes, voodoo, whatever you want to call it, I hate it. I want to know why it works and why it doesn’t work. I don’t think it’s asking a lot.
When Boot Camp was first released, I gave it a spin. The installation was smooth, but everything went south when I [...]
Zune, The Community Which Squirts
In a recent Business Week article, Steve Balmer (Microsoft CEO) explained the social networking feature of the Zune thusly:
I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation.
Frankly, I don’t want Balmer squirting anything at me. And I’m not sure I want to [...]
Hasta La Vista, Zune
So, the Zune is finally here. Yes, it’s here and it’ll most likely be crashing a computer near you soon. But one thing it won’t be crashing is a computer running Microsoft Vista. Why is that, you ask? Is it because Vista is so tight and awesome that it can’t be [...]
GIMP & X11
I am continually forgetting to start X11 before trying to start GIMP. This continually results in a 10 second delay followed by the dreaded Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 error. So, right or wrong, I created the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 & /sw/bin/gimp-1.2
While this successfully gets GIMP started, it produces the following error:
So far, [...]
Trackpad For Idiots, Part 1
Sometimes the answer is so simple you can spend weeks looking for it. In my case, I’ve been struggling with the trackpad on my MacBook Pro. The one thing I use often is the right click on the mouse. I use it almost constantly in Firefox and it’s a very common click [...]
Macenstein iCar Review
Macenstein has a review of the iCar, easily one of the funniest reviews I’ve read in a long time. Seriously. Go check it out.
When I showed my kids the iCar, they both said “WOW! Cool!” (they are 3 and 5). After about 2 minutes of seeing the iCar in action, both requested that [...]
TextMate Book Goes Into Technical Review
I’m one of the lucky people performing the technical review of James Gray’s TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac from the Pragmatic Programmers. I received the PDF version this morning and finally got around to digging into it tonight. I’ve been itching to get started with it since James asked me to do [...]
TextMate 2.0 To Require Leopard
Over at the TextMate blog, Allan has announced that TextMate 2.0 will require OS X Leopard. While I don’t really consider this much of an issue (after all, Leopard is going to make many cool features possible), a lot of people are having issues with it. For my part, I’ll be upgrading to [...]
Larissa
Corey Rusk, at Touch and Go, writes:
It is with a very heavy heart that I am writing this notice that Larissa Stolarchuck (aka Larissa Strickland) has passed away. Larissa sang in the early eighties Detroit band, L-Seven, and went on to play guitar in the Laughing Hyenas – both Touch and Go bands.
According to Pitchfork, [...]
Markdown Test
This is a test using Gruber’s Markdown syntax as provided by the PHP Markdown plugin.
This is a blockquote.
print "This is a test of the code highlighting.\n";
Code Highlighting
This is a test of Dean Lee’s Code Highlighter plugin.
function hello_world() { echo "hello world" }
sub hello_world { print "hello world"; }
Electric Hellfire Club
Having worked my way through the bulk of Electric Hellfire Club’s discography, I can safely state that I completely understand why they are no longer together. From Wikipedia:
The Electric Hellfire Club has been inactive since early 2002, following the completion of a national tour. Members Klem Kthulu and Black Circle Chucky were reported to [...]
Won’t Play For Sure Any More
I think it’s odd that if you purchase a Zune, Microsoft will let you download your previous iTunes purchases for free, but if you’ve been using MSN or Microsoft’s Play For Sure stuff, you’re screwed. I guess they’re more concerned with competing with iTunes than they are with serving their existing customer base.