Regret stems from uncertainty and wishful thinking. It is often pushed alongside a bad situation that had better alternatives, but there, it does not belong. The “could have been” is our regret. It’s the alternative outcome; the natural course; the happy, certain ending. That finality is easy to see, to imagine, and the steps between […]
November has started. There’s just 23 short days left until my birthday. And by birthday, I mean drinking good beer while watching Tech obliterate UVA in football. This week has been a blur. I expect the rest of the month to be the same. Monday brought a half day of classes, and the other half of […]
Wincent Colaiuta talks about how broken Leopard is for him. To me, that sounds like a bad install on bad hardware. Gremlins with his optical drive seem related to his old problems with the drive under Tiger, and the rest of the general system instability feels like installation issues because of a bad hard drive. This […]
I’m holding off on buying and installing Leopard. It’s only 70 bucks from the bookstore for the OS, so that’s a no brainer, but I’m reluctant to install it in the midst of the school year. There’s a chance that the applications I use for work won’t function properly, and I really don’t need the […]
Via Daring Fireball: Apple provided some journalists with the Leopard GM a week ago. Third-party developers still have to go buy a copy to test and fix their applications, or wait for their free ADC copy to show up in a few days (or weeks). Note to Apple: this is not how to make developers happy. Apple has […]
Apple, as the Leopard release approaches, has chosen to take their customary approach with third-party developers and the Gold Master. Although ADC members have been privately (under NDA) beta-testing Leopard for months, working to ensure application compatibility and reporting bugs, their final seed was released weeks ago. There have been leaked reports of many changes […]
I know it as the Spinning Beachball of Death, or the Spinning Pizza, but Craig Hockenberry of Iconfactory knows it as the Marble of Doom, and made a site just to track how much time we all collectively lose to that damned cursor. Wikipedia is more kind, calling it the “spinning wait cursor”. And Spinning […]
While reading long-ago posts from John Gruber about the OS X Finder, I came to realize something odd, curious, and a touch disturbing about my usage of OS 9 and OS X. I grew up on an OS 8/9 machine. From a Mac IIsi to a Bondi Blue iMac (it’s still in the basement back home, […]
I’ve been stuck in this cycle with Rice Krispies and marshmallows for weeks. “Hmm. I have marshmallows, I should get Rice Krispies and make tasty treats.” “Hmm. Now I have Rice Krispies. I should get marshmallows.” Damn those manufacturers for putting exactly two recipe servings in each bag and box. I started with a half-bag of […]
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…’ ” Isaac Asimov
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