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Monday, March 28, 2005 Link
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It's not every year the incremental value of your age corresponds to the answer to life, the universe, and everything, but then again, I'm afraid that you can't much control that sort of thing anyway. Since it is simply impossible for me not to be 42 this year, I shall enjoy the rather nice coincidence that someone, somewhere decided to finally get around to releasing this lovely film. Now where did I leave my towel?
Sunday, March 27, 2005 Link
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Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora. This is a Latin saying which translates into something akin to '... eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow'. It's sort of a 'bird in the hand' kind of thing, I suppose. Happy Easter.
Thursday, March 24, 2005 Link
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Damn. I had no idea that Toast used HFS rather than HFS+ for the Mac OS portion of custom hybrid discs. Normally, this isn't an issue since I'm often compiling batches of data that fit comfortably onto a CD-sized partition. But since beginning to work on a number of DVD-based masters, I ran smack dab into that 2GB volume limitation that HFS is infamous for. I scoured the Roxio support boards for a workaround that would still allow me to customize the user experience on the Mac side without having to burn separate discs. Apparently, this is common complaint amongst Toasters and has something to with HFS+ being incompatible with on-the-fly optimization. Of course, some people don't blame the file system, they blame Toast instead. I guess for me, it's back to building those generic, serviceable, and painfully consistent-looking ISO9660-formatted masters this time around. Yawn.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Link
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FlickrBlog: Being owned by Yahoo fails to prevent hard drive failures. I feel their pain. If the movers and shakers at Yahoo won't protect you and your loved ones from toasted drive syndrome, the very least they could do it provide funding for a decent failover system. In the meantime, while you're waiting for your next Flickr fix, you might enjoy this. Change the subdomain to modify the massage. Via Mr Haughey
Monday, March 21, 2005 Link
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The available domain name of the week is blooth.com
Sunday, March 20, 2005 Link
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Well, there you go. After all the mumbling, Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr. I'll think I'll just sit back and trust the Ludicorp gang telling me that things won't get all futzed up just because some of the new owners wear suits. Most of the time, change is actually a good thing. One promising tidbit scooped from the announcement is that 'Pro account holders will get super mega bonuses...' and that includes yours truly. Congratulations Flickr. It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of Canucks. As the final sentence on the About Ludicorp page says: The goal is to kick ass. I believe you just did. Now, just make sure yours doesn't get kicked in the process.
Friday, March 18, 2005 Link
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Have I ever mentioned how much I appreciate having SpamSieve working for me? Well, let me just do that right now. Thank you Michael Tsai, thank you. I get a crudload of spam across my numerous email accounts and have been practically giddy about how well SpamSieve does keeping up with the onslaught. 99.6% accuracy? I can work with that, but is it comparable to the level of accuracy others getting? Just curious.
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Three things. A mountie in full dress uniform, Her Majesty the Queen, and a vintage Lincoln convertible with suicide doors.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 Link
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Oh no! What has Celine done with the rest of the Belmonts? That's no teenager in love by any stretch of the imagination. This afternoon, my iTunes playlist appeared to have been infiltrated by some unwanted Francophone audio dreckage. Fortunately, it wasn't a terminal afflication. I grabbed this screen capture of Synergy displaying the wrong album artwork for the currently playing song. This isn't an issue with Synergy per se, but it does illustrate the problem with basing artwork searches on textual track information only.
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Monday, March 14, 2005 Link
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I'm sure that I'm not the only person who has noticed the wonderfully random (if not playful) way in which applications are sorted in the Open With... contextual menu found in Apple Mail. The image below only hints at the mad scramble of menu items that appear when I control click on an image file in an email message. Here is a more complete screen dump of the menu contents. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate having access to all of my options, but why on earth do they not display in any logical sort order? I love playing hide and seek for Photoshop in a list that grows every time I decide to install yet another image editing tool. I'd like to point out that the Open With... submenu is quite well behaved when there are only a couple of applicable choices (StuffIt archives, for example, currently offer only two choices: StuffIt Deluxe and StuffIt Expander). There must be a programmatic reason behind this - perhaps to reduce the pop-up delay by not presorting all of the items prior to displaying the submenu. But why is this only an issue in Mail? Activating the Open With... contextual menu in the Finder takes noticeably longer to appear on my machine, but at least it appears to be sorted alphabetically. Just wondering.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005 Link
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No, I am not posting this just to prove that I can keep this blog going for three days in a row. No, it doesn't mean that I'm completely disgusted by the fact that I haven't actually managed to post something of significance three days in a row since the beginning of last December. No, I'm not bored of doing this. No, I haven't finished the redesign that I've been fumbling with for the last two years. And no, I'm not feeling pressure to unveil something fresh and spectacular and perhaps even fully standards compliant in time for the fifth anniversary of this blog - which just happens to be occurring sometime next month. No, I'm not. Not at all.
Tuesday, March 08, 2005 Link
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For future reference, here's an impressive (but not necessarily complete) list of OS X menubar items with the requisite descriptions and links. I'm rather sobered by how many of these handy little doodads I actually use right now. Three third-party extras that I could not possibly live without are Synergy for iTunes control, ASM for application switching and window behaviour, and WinSwitch for user switching. Once you've finished downloading yourself into a tizzy and subsequently clogged up your menubar within a pixel of its life, head on over to the What's in your menubar? thread at Hicksdesign and post a dump of all those new icons you're packing. Via Daring Fireball and Airbag, respectively.
Monday, March 07, 2005 Link
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The Veer creative team developed six fictional portraits to illustrate six personal truths. Here's how we approached the challenge to Capture Personality. And speaking of truths, this month's set of thematically matching desktop wallpaper is the hotpixelshit, kids.
I'd like to personally thank friend Jon for pointing out this charming Jefferson Starbucks story and its related musical accompaniment - but I can't. Up until today, I had managed to completely avoid this rampaging audiomeme. Sadly, that point in time whooshed past me at the speed of sound. This evening I seem to have both the worst song ever and it's ill-conceived progeny stuck in my head as deep as a pair of earworms can possibly be. Damn you, Jon. Damn you to an eternal iTunes playlist of Bob Seger cover bands.
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