A Better Leopard Dock

Thirty-plus hours of Leopard and so far my feelings on it are a mixed bag (I love the implementation of Spaces, I hate the kernel panics from the new networking code). One thing I decidedly dislike is the new Dock: all glitter and glam, no functional usability improvement. Quite frankly the new Dock looks like [...]

It Tastes Like Burning

Right now I’m down in Laguna Beach, CA for a couple of days and though I knew the fires were bad, it’s amazing the effect its having on the environment down here. It smells of smoke the entire drive down the PCH and 405. Looking out at the ocean the horizon is barely discernable from [...]

OS X RSS Readers With Feed-Specific Filtering?

For years I’ve used NetNewswire as my primary RSS reader and for much less time than that I’ve been subscribed to the Digg RSS feed and it has engendered in me a strong desire for an application feature that NetNewswire lacks: the ability to filter individual RSS entries from a feed via some user-definable criteria [...]

The Metric System Strikes Again

In an otherwise absolutely fascinating article about an African guy named Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi who built his own helicopter from scrap parts the evils of the metric system strike again making the article, at least for me, extremely amusing and a bit pathetic at the same time.
What’s wrong with this picture:

For a four-seater it is [...]

ED-209 Alive and Well

Those who cannot learn from Robocop are condemned to repeat it, IRL:

A female artillery officer risked her life on Friday in a desperate bid to prevent members of her battery dying from their own anti-aircraft gun.
But the brave, as yet unnamed officer was unable to stop the wildly swinging computerised Swiss/German Oerlikon 35mm MK5 [...]

Anarchist’s Cookbook in the UK

I am an anti-christ
I am an anarchist
Don’t know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos I
I wanna BE anarchy!

It would appear that Britain is sadly both forgetting its punk-rock history and following in the hysterical footsteps of over-reactive Boston by interpretting any “abnormal” behaviour as an act [...]

Snow is Here

Today Grouse Mountain, one of the city mountains just outside Vancouver, got its first snowfall of the season.
Let the good times come!