New stylesheet back there
For fun, and because I’ve literally spent days at work mucking about with the intricacies of stylesheets lately, I gutted the old stylesheet behind this blog and rebuilt it from the ground up. If I did a good job of it you shouldn’t notice a thing.
Three distinct benefits arise from this:
It’s much cleaner and [...]
Spotlight’s UI dissected like a bug
Two posts ago I summarized my dislike for Spotlight’s UI with the pithy, clever, yet perhaps a little succinct
But in this paraticular case I really dislike the implementation. I dislike how it sorts and orders things as they come in. I dislike the icons it displays. I dislike where it appears on my screen [...]
Cheque numbers
I can never remember the order of these numbers but lately I’ve been asked for them a lot. So, here they are for posterity in graphic form I stole from some other website. Canadian cheque bank, branch, transit and account numbers:
Good-bye Spotlight
Today I shut off Spotlight on my Mac. I unchecked all it’s boxes, I unchecked its keyboard shortcuts, I… have left the damned thing in the corner of menu because I can’t figure out how to remove it. I could Google it, I know it’s out there somewhere, but it annoys me that it’s not [...]
Movie trailer voice guy
After seeing “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” tonight (well worth it if you’re a fan of Tim Burton or obnoxious little children getting theirs) I was curious: just who is the Movie Trailer Voice Guy, did anyone know? Everyone knows of him but does anyone really know him? Foolishly I doubted the power of the [...]
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