Gridlock

This game is damned addictive: Gridlock. I forced myself to quit at level 9 but soon, soon I will return to it. (Thanks Kirsten!)

Into the RSS aggregator fray

This article over at Wired has Dave Winer in a huff about the difference between aggregators and readers, who built what software before whom*, and which way is best and why the other ways short-change their users:

There are two schools of thought about aggregators. One says that they should work like a mail reader, the [...]

Jobs via RSS: it’s time has come

By now you’ve probably heard of RSS*. It’s this cool little concept by which metadata about stuff on the web gets made easily available to everywhere else on the web via a simple text-based XML structure. It works and it works well. And the one place it’s really missing is in publicizing available positions in [...]

Christian charity in Alabama… for those who can afford it

I don’t give a shit about politics in Alabama. I don’t care who wins, who loses… I don’t even care who’s running. But what does get me is stunning, blatant, flagrant hypocrisy.
Alabama Governor Bob Riley is running again. Part of his plaform is a massive tax hike:

The plan would raise the tax threshold from [...]

PSA: Gas is poisonous

Twenty people needed medical treatment after swallowing gas while trying to siphon it from vehicles - Toronto Star

Folks: gasoline is poisonous. Honest. If you want to siphon gas from your neighbours in the dead of night during a blackout, learn to do it properly.

An American discovers Canada

Samantha Bennett of the Pittburgh Post-Gazette discovers Canada:

The Canadians are so quiet that you may have forgotten they’re up there, but they’ve been busy doing some surprising things. It’s like discovering that the mice you are dimly aware of in your attic have been building an espresso machine.
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Now, here’s the part that I, as an [...]

Best quote of the blackout

Ernie Eves, interim Premier of Ontario, on how long it will take to bring Ontario’s nuclear reactors back online: “We really don’t know how long it will take, there’s no exact science to this.”
[I'm paraphrasing from an interview heard on the radio. You get the gist.]

BBAutoComplete - awesome!

For the most part I’ve never bothered to pay attention to the Scripts menu in any application that has them. It’s been my experience that most of the included AppleScripts tend to simply mimick behaviour easier accomplished through keyboard shortcuts and plain ol’ typing. But sometimes, just sometimes, a script comes along that makes the [...]

REALbasic and SQLite?

Back a while ago I mentioned that Pineapple 0.4 was in the works and that it would require MySQL as it’s backend. Steve Jenson pointed me to SQLite, which I’d never heard of, as a possible alternative but it looked to me like it would have to be wrapped inside a REALbasic plug-in to work [...]

Zip compression gets complicated

It seems that the folks who make the most popular Zip-compression software have taken to monkeying about with the format:

Both programs use the basic .zip file extension to designate both secure and standard files. The upshot? People who receive a file with .zip now won’t know until they try to open it whether it’s one [...]

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