Hey… Isn’t this article about John…?: When my eldest was five, we bought him an old Mac Classic to learn keyboarding and mouse skills. One day I noticed he seemed to be using the mouse wrong. On closer inspection I found he was using it upside down! He’d turned it 180 degrees, so when he […]
A has concluded that we will not seek another Dell no matter how desperate for a PC we get. Not after the past couple days nightmare of trying to troubleshoot her precious “Bloody Ninja”. (Well, Bloody Ninja isn’t so much precious as the files on it were.) So like Wednesday or Thursday of last week […]
Would programmers become better programmers if they would just lighten up?
currently playing: Underworld “Shudder/King of Snake”
About 6 months ago (you may recall), Google announced their Google Suggest beta project – – the idea being that they’ll “suggest” the top hits for a given string. So, with my interest piqued, I blogged the alphabet according to Google. More of a curiosity than anything else… I guess I’m not surprised that it’s […]
With a little help I made my first Dashboard Widget: the Oblique Strategies widget This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. For those unfamiliar with the Oblique Strategies, may I recommend Gregory Taylor’s site on the subject. Short version? Musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt, faced with the “creator’s block” […]
Took me a while to work up to this article in the most recent issue of Wired. But J Allard is now my new hero. First: But Allard insists that his plan is different […] To him, hi-def is about more than screen resolution [it’s about] a persistent, evolving online persona regardless of which game […]
And just as mysteriously as my synctunes scripts appeared to stop working, they appeared to start working as expected. Keeping an eye on these though since I’m not so sure I trust their reliability at this point. Questions: Are both the LoginHook and the LogoutHook working? Is it successfully updating the play counts (etc.) on […]
Submitted for scrutiny (esp. since it doesn’t appear to be working…): synctunesin.sh gets the latest iTunes Library info from the iTunes User account #!/bin/bash TUNESHARE=/Users/itunes/Music/iTunes AMYLIB=/Users/amy/Music/iTunes GUESTLIB=/Users/guest/Music/iTunes ROBLIB=/Users/rob/Music/iTunes if [ $USER != itunes ]; then if [ $TUNESHARE/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library -nt $AMYLIB/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library ]; then cp $TUNESHARE/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library $AMYLIB/iTunes\ 4\ […]
I want this: Motorola’s DC600 Bluetooth adapter. Turns a pre- or otherwise non-Bluetooth Motorola phone (such as the T730c) and straps Bluetooth on to its bottom like a prosthetic limbless limb. Now to find out if it actually works…