Sagres

Stumbled across a new beer in the liquor store yesterday: Sagres, from Portugal. Despite being 5.1% it tastes and drinks like a lighter beer, belonging among the likes of Heineken and Grolsch. With a very mild initial flavour it has almost no immediate aftertaste though the slight tang of alcohol lingers long afterwards. Generally, not [...]

One-line movie review: Poolhall Junkies

Slow to start, the final pool match makes it all worth watching. If you liked The Color of Money and Rounders, you’ll like Poolhall Junkies.

If God says so

The Church Sign Generator:

Number portability fees

Of course the cell phone operators aren’t going to just swallow the costs of implementing number portability in the States, they’re going to try and pass it on the consumer. Gizmodo breaks down the fees by provider:

Cingular: Collects a fee of up to $1.25 for “Regulatory Cost Recovery,” which likely includes number portability. Most Cingular [...]

Database modelling tool?

If anyone knows of a good database modelling tool for OS X, I’d like to know.

One-line movie review: Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher sucked, not in the “It made me angry that it exists at all” sort of way that U-571 does but rather in the “This would fail to get a D in a high school film class” sort of way.

NSController

“Aaron, this app was 252,500 lines of code,  but with NSController it is only 3!” - NSController revisited

(And Aaron’s original, kick-’em-in-the-nuts-real-hard post slamming NSController: The Problems with NSController)

No singing please

Happy birthday Joey!

DBD::mysql on Panther, and other joys at 4am

Installing Panther from scratch has meant getting intimately re-acquainted with certain components of OS X’s Unix underpinnings, namely the remarkably Rube Goldbergian Perl module installation process and the ability to take down the web server with but an errant keystroke.
For those who don’t know, Perl modules can be complicated little beasts, often having layer upon [...]

iChatStatus

Alrighty, here’s how I get my currently-playing iTunes track to display as my iChat status: iChatStatus, as suggested by Steve on FA: OS X. iChatStatus is pretty damned cool and the iTunes thing is just one possible option. Check it out.
Update: I guess I should probably mention this bit from the developer’s site:

iChatStatus is a [...]

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