Thursday, April 11, 2002

Another way out Sadly, now that things are working, everyone who sees WE HAVE THE WAY OUT is going to know almost nothing about the rather infamous rocky start of the site. However, wehavethewayout.net and wehavethewayout.org both wind up at something called Yet Another Pro Unix Web Site. Both domains are registered to William Shaw of San Francisco. I hope his one man campaign is a success. 11:39:43 PM

An interesting word pellucid [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] 11:24:41 PM

Virtual frog dissection This is so darned cool, I almost wish I could go back and do ninth grade biology over again. OK, so we did a pig, but with this you almost really know what's going on. Contrast that with poorly mimeographed instructions with blurry black and white images, the stench of formaldehyde and lots of sharp instruments for teenaged boys to play with. Wow. On second thought, I guess you still have to cut the darned thing up. But this is certainly the virtual equivalent of the CliffNotes of frog dissection. The older boys loved A.D.A.M. The Inside Story when they were younger, this ought to prove interesting. [bOing bOing] 11:22:28 PM

That comfy feeling DragThing 4.3 has let me mostly go back to my old ways and learn a couple new ones. With the disk (or volume) dock, I've turned off Volumes in the Finder and it doesn't feel too bad. I have it anchored in the upper right corner of my main monitor when in the Finder or DragThing. We'll see how it goes, but I think I like it. I've mostly moved back to all my old hot keys (and on the TiBook I have done so completely). Right now I can't get F14 and F15 to work alone, which is probably a little bug which I plan to feedback to James Thompson. Typically, I use the right most function key as hideall and the one just to the left of it to get to the Finder, been doing this for years, so things are still a little weird. But we're getting closer, one little step at a time. 11:03:14 PM

The indestructible sandwich What happens to people after a couple years eating this junk? Yuck. [bOing bOing] 5:16:43 PM

DragThing 4.3 released It's out! 4.3 supports hot keys without a command key modifier and adds a new dynamic "Disk Dock" which can display all your hard disks, removable media, and connected servers. 10:14:36 AM

Wiki stuff On Wikipedia. Kuro5hin: Can an Open Content Encyclopedia Survive? I sure hope so, for reasons that will become clear in the next few days. [diveintomark] Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is open for the general public to read, copy, and even modify right there on the website. It sounds interesting. Mark's MacOS X Wiki idea seems like it might be a lot more useful (if I have read the tea leaves correctly). I hope he does it. 12:50:03 AM

Alternative Objective C syntax? What the heck ever happened to the modern form of Objective C syntax? Does it still exist? I know some purists would frown, but it would make Objective C a lot easier for me to deal with (sort of like the guy I know who wrote a bunch of perl so it looked just like C). I can actually read and interpret the example. 12:42:16 AM

Ruby This Linux Journal article Ruby: Productive Programming Language has been sitting here for a couple weeks, begging to be read. It's an interesting look and offers some compelling reasons to try it out. [mac.scripting.com] 12:37:41 AM

Bobo be bad While trying to play with Radio Poster I was getting the same errors I had been getting with Bill Bumgarner's RadioService. Since I hadn't made much progress debugging RadioService (I couldn't ever get break points to trigger), I figured I would do it the hard way (which turned out to be a whole lot easier). So I watched the traffic and what was going in looked right, but the error message said it was rejected. Aaargg! Time to poke around in Radio. Preferences section 4.8, "The Blogger API in Radio". And it was not enabled. What a bobo. 12:22:06 AM

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