Monday, February 4, 2002

It annoyed me that everytime I lost power to my TiBook, the clock would reset to 1970, I would subsequently forget to reset the date/time and a bunch of people would make fun of me for sending email from the distant past. Worse, some people sort their email by date and, as such, never noticed that I sent them email that their mail client thinks is from Jan 1, 1970. This silly little bit of AppleScript can be installed as a login item under OS X and will automatically launch System Preferences and select the Date & Time preferences pane if the year of your system's clock is preposterous (as in, prior to 2002). An RTF document describing installation and implementation in detail. (Aha! Figured out how to refer to an image such that it renders both locally and [hopefully] remotely. Neat. And a bit more digging revealed that optional arguments are passed as key/value pairs. Cool. radio.macros.imageref ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0100490/images/BadClockDetector.jpg", width:64, height:64, alt:"Bad Clock Detector Icon") does the trick. Now, why did I have to dig and dig and dig until I found the Frontier macros guide to find documentation on the macros in the local Radio desktop??) 5:18:49 PM