Greyhound update
The original Craig’s List post has been deleted for some reason. Odd, I wonder why?
Nonetheless that doesn’t change how great a dog greyhounds are and they still need help. If you want to help out in some way, contacting Greyhound Lovers of Hamilton-Wentworth would be a good start.
Greyhounds in dire need
Ordinarilly I rant about the tech industry and software development but this time not so. This time it’s about greyhounds in need, specifically 500 that will be killed if homes can’t be found for them.
From Craig’s List: Greyhounds need home or will be euthanized.
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing one particular greyhound named Bob for […]
The Climbers Dictionary
The Climbers Dictionary
“Watch me”
Call to indicate the climber is about to do something stupid — like fall.
Making it with Mail.app
Probably the single most contentious issue with OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger) has been the face-lift given to Mail: the web seems to be divided between the “It looks alright to me” camp and the “Beaten to within an inch of its life with the ugly stick” camp.
I was originally of the mindset that the […]
Good news for RealBasic developers
Real Software just issued this press release today:
AUSTIN, Texas (May 5, 2005) - REAL Software, Inc. announced
today the company has acquired SQLite-based database
technology developed by SQLabs of San Diego, California. This
technology includes SQLitePlugInPro for REALbasic and
SQLiteServer. SQLitePlugInPro is a popular database plugin
that enables development of single-user database
applications. SQLiteServer is a SQLite-based database server.
which is very […]
A question for Windows XP
When two identical modal dialog boxes need to be popped up in succession why do you insist on popping them up in different places on the screen?
It is mildly infuriating to move the mouse over to the Cancel button, click it, know that I’ll want to click Cancel on the next dialog as well, and […]
The worst of OSS supporters
There’s the browser wars, the OS wars, the text editor wars, and they all have their zealots but I find none so self-aggrandizing, pretentious and self-righteous as the open-source software zealots.
Witness this comment on Slashdot in response to a Linux distributor’s choice to use currently-proprietary software in it’s development process:
They are now propriatary software developers, […]
Ubuntu, VLC and silence
In the event that you’re running Ubuntu and VLC doesn’t play any audio for you, install this: vlc-plugin-esd.
sudo apt-get install “vlc-plugin-esd”
(In ‘universe’).