Tuesday, April 23, 2002

Haxial TextEdit: not just another bare-bones plain text editor for the Mac. This thing is fast - possibly the fastest-launching OS X application I've seen. It uses its own fonts and interface toolkit, which likely contributes to the speed. The fonts and color scheme names are a bit weirdly inspired (a Monaco 10 bold-like font is called "Petit Mal"), but I can deal with it. 11:00:03 PM | reply [] Raphaël Szwarc: Zoë. The best way I can describe it: as Radio UserLand does for the Web, Zoë does for email. This is the program I've wanted to write for a long time: it indexes your mail (with Lucene) and lets you do something useful with it. Don't be put off by the awkwardly phrased manifesto, download it, and try it out. So far it seems very nice for a version 0.1 product. It's written in Java, I'm not sure whether it requires OS X or not. 10:40:45 PM | reply [] So Doc is a non-TV-viewer who watches Six Feet Under, too. It's on Wednesday night here, and I meet with my advisor on Wednesday, so I'm ready for it after the buildup and panic of Tuesday night's regular "Oh no! I'm meeting with my advisor tomorrow and I have no work done!". The closing scene of this episode was so real it almost made me cry. At one point in my life, I was witness to something similar. I kept on waiting for Claire to go down and reach out to her mother, but it never happened. So, guess what tonight is? Back to work! 8:59:23 PM | reply []