When programmers were real men
Good times in this post, honest. In his Dashboard vs. Konfabulator post John mentions my all-time favourite Mac programming story: Andy Hertzfeld and The Puzzle. Read it and be in awe (I mean that sincerely).
A program in 600 bytes? These days I’m impressed when I download an app and its less than 6 Megs.
Konfabulator vs. Dashboard
This whole topic is certainly stirring up the Mac-web right now. John Gruber has written a rebuttal in defence of Apple and Dashboard that succinctly defines the cool aspects of Dashboard: that it’s built on WebKit, that the idea of having little one-off utils is nothing new, and that it looks as good as Konfabulator […]
Konfabulator
Long, long ago, like sometime last year, I checked out Konfabulator and thought “cool, very cool… but not something I need” and didn’t pay much attention to it after that.
Until yesterday when word of Apple’s Dashboard was announced as a feature of the next OS release. My first reaction: “bastards! you stole that idea.” How […]
Red Canada
So the Liberals won a minority government, the Conservatives did considerably better than the last time around and the Bloc continues to be the voice of the French. Good times were had be all (except perhaps Stephen Harper, but good show on the game face at the end there Mr. Harper).
In my opinion the best […]
It’s a Daring Fireball movement
Damn. Fire off a subscription fee to Daring Fireball and you could win one of a ton of good prizes.
I should have waited to pay up and I could have gotten in on the schwag. I am in on it! Cool.
Dear Peerio: huh?
Some app called Peerio, which I can only guess is a p2p app, I didn’t bother to read much past the section of homepage I quote below, has the weirdest open-source approach I’ve ever seen:
We’ve gone against the tide of tradition by taking an Open Source approach…. We will provide the Peerio444™ source codes to […]
Extremist propoganda
I’m no fan of the Conservatives and I’d be seriously disappointed if Stephen Harper were to get elected. I don’t think the continuation of the right-wing legacies set down by the Ralph Kleins and Mike Harrises of the country is what we need. I like this continued movement towards a more accepting, tolerant, benign Canada […]
Dick Cheney plays poker
This is some brilliant satire: Poker With Dick Cheney
Transcript of The Editors’ regular Saturday-night poker game with Dick Cheney, 6/19/04. Start tape at 12:32 AM.
The Editors: We’ll take three cards.
Dick Cheney: Give me one.
Sounds of cards being placed down, dealt, retrieved, and rearranged in hand. Non-commital noises, puffing of cigars.
TE: Fifty bucks.
DC: I’m in. Show […]
Of drive failures and fixes
I still have a bunch of old Macs laying around of various pedigrees (if anyone wants a 7200 or a 7500 they’re yours for the price of shipping), one of which is a beige G3 with maxed-out RAM and a whopping 8 Gig hard-drive. It runs 10.1.2 just fine and had been up non-stop for […]
Gmail: a clarification
Well, aren’t some of us a bit sensitive about Gmail these days? Re my last post: I’m thoroughly enjoying Gmail and a few interface-related bugs notwithstanding they’ve done an awesome implementation job. It took less than five messages to get comfortable with the UI.
That last post was not poking fun at Gmail you thin-skinned, bandwagon-jumping, […]