snow crash moment.
¶ by Rob Frieselsurreal moment on tonight’s drive home… sirens. lights. two cop cars later, a pizza delivery truck (!?) blows by.
surreal moment on tonight’s drive home… sirens. lights. two cop cars later, a pizza delivery truck (!?) blows by.
(via Moock) You can now author Flash MX content on/for Linux. Roxxors my boxxors.
Via a Wired article: To cut a long story short, the tedious backup procedure was cavalierly dispensed with after Panther was successfully installed on two other machines earlier in the afternoon: a 1-GHz eMac and a 1.6-GHz PowerMac G5. In both cases, the machines were first backed up to one of OWC’s excellent external FireWire […]
Take Back Your Time Day was 10-24-2003. Who knew? I take comfort in the fact that at least I left 5 minutes early that day… Let’s try to make it a bit more *that* every day though… Kickin’ it in Maine this weekend, ya’ll. And lovin’ it.
new addition: WordSpy yields treats like: fat finger dialing n. A telephone scam in which a company sets up a toll number that is one digit different than a popular number, so that the company earns money when customers accidentally mis-dial the legitimate number; mis-dialing a phone number in this manner. Also: fat-finger dialing, fat fingers […]
I want to be involved in a serious programming project. Bottom line. I want to be in on CVS somewhere and make meaningful contributions. Though that’s less important than the satisfaction of successfully brining a complex series of slightly-recursive nested for loops to some successful return. I want my ifs and thens in my mind […]
Jesus actor struck by lightning: “The lightning bolt hit Caviezel and the film’s assistant director Jan Michelini while they were filming in a remote location a few hours from Rome.” Uh… Um… Huh?
An article on Panther… Written by David Pogue (who else?) for the NYTimes… My 2 favorite lines: FileVault uses an encoding scheme so thorough, Apple says, that a password-guessing computer would need 149 trillion years to break it. Just enough time for Apple to reach Mac OS X 11. …and… And Exposé is probably worth […]
From Ape Infinitum, re: iTunes Music Store: It’s all about recapturing second market revenue. *shrug*makes-face* Though I definitely fall in line w/ statements like: I wish I knew how to feel about iTunes. And/or “…people want to do the right thing [and go along with] good services at fair prices…” First off, $0.99 per song […]
You get something… And three months later, they release a new and much improved version. G4 processors up to 1GHz, slot-loading combo drive, Panther pre-loaded, 802.11g ready…