I’ve been doing my first business travel in the past year. It’s interesting how experience changes your perspective. Lap Desk Several times, I’ve been stuck in an office with no desk but it’s nice to have in the hotel as well. I travel with this one, but I’d love to get one of these for…
February, 2005
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I had thought this was self-evident, but by the e-mail I’ve received this morning it obviously is not: When you see a ‘This beta has expired’ message, it means the beta version you are using has expired and you need to download a later beta. This has been well covered in the forums. In addition,…
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I placed an online order with Kensington a week or so ago and one of the items I ordered was back-ordered. They sent me an e-mail to let me know this, giving me the option to cancel the order. At this point, I was thought they were pretty on the ball. Today I ended up…
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I’d hoped to be doing the final release of the new versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks today, but unfortunately there’s still too much left undone with the new web site and backend systems. It’s very tempting to just go ahead and do the releases now, but I know that things will be much better…
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In software development, you can always tell when a team is pushing to meet a deadline/release/etc. because the whole team will be in need of a haircut. I’ve needed one for three weeks now.
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I played about six innings of real live baseball today. I met a fellow out here who plays on a 28 years old and over men’s league and I got a chance to play with them today. I hadn’t played real baseball in over a decade and I definitely had a little rust. Fielding a…
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I’ve upgraded to forums to PunBB 1.2.1. The RSS feeds for the forums are offline until I get around to rewriting them. If the forums look funny, refresh your CSS.
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Of Arms and Two Men, Ichiro and Vlad Daring Fireball: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service Python owns us — The weblog of Jarno Virtanen MOOX :: Processor specific Windows builds for Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. tow.com – blog – Transferring content to WordPress The Absolut Truth – Blog Archive…
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I updated my Active Topics Mod for PunBB to work with PunBB 1.2. You can download it from my software page.
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I used the Finder today for the first time in a while and came up with a short list of things I’ve become dependent on in PathFinder: Sorting by type – I know it isn’t the Mac way , but sorting folders to the top in the column view makes it faster for me to…
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A few quick follow-up thoughts on UI presentation strategies. I employ these in my development. The application interface should be designed so that user has a good idea what will happen when they take a certain action. Surprises are bad. Basic users should rarely need to go to the prefs. The best way to accomplish…
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I spent a little time playing with TextMate this past week, the recent betas seem to be coming along nicely. So far though, I like the idea of TextMate better than I like actually using it. 🙂 The minimalist UI is very elegant, but in some ways very difficult on the usability side of things.…
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Took the pup up to the park today at lunch to run, run, run with an Italian Greyhound named Sophie. Noonan at full speed can keep up with Sophie, but Sophie probably has another gear I haven’t seen yet. Regardless, she’ll sleep well this afternoon. 🙂 Sophie’s owner is also a photography buff (much more…
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Until Google Maps allows you to save locations, a bookmarklet (tested in Firefox and Safari) is in order. Google Directions To use: Drag the link below to your bookmarks Edit the URL to put in your own address Go to maps.google.com Click the bookmarklet What it does: Activate the directions tab Fill the ‘start’ field…
