Coty's Radio Weblog

	Wednesday, July 30, 2003

President Bush Mindful

Not in general, mind you, but he is "mindful that we are all sinners." Especially gays who want to get married.

I can't believe this is part of our national political discourse. Further, I can't believe that anyone could worship an omnipotent, omniscient creator who would be so interested in the sexual habits of his creations. Am I alone in thinking that it diminishes God to believe him to be so interested in such minute, mundane issues?
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Baby Banger 1.2.1 on PerversionTracker

I sort of hate to admit it, but PerversionTracker just reviewed an app. that I actually use. Well, I don't use it; my son Henry does. BabyBanger is great, and Henry loves playing with it. The only problem is that he is somehow able to press the right combination of keys and mouse clicks to move the full screen window so that he can click on other stuff.

P.S. If you haven't seen PerversionTracker, yet, you should take a look. Funny stuff.
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I'd like to see this dialog, too [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Weblog]

If anyone on the Longhorn team is listening, do you think you could add one of these?

[Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Weblog]

Of course, I'd like to see it in Panther rather than Longhorn.
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Start Ant 5 times faster! [crazybob.org - web log]

While at the TSS conference last weekend, Drew Sliwkowski, a clustering guru for BEA, pointed me to an awesome Ant task called Server. Basically, you start an ant server in the background and use a native client to make it execute targets. By doing this, you avoid both the JRE and Ant startup times. Whereas running an empty target 5 times took 13s with the classic method, it only took 2.3s with the server method (or 1/5th of the time). ...

[crazybob.org - web log]

While I haven't been doing anything with Java recently, this looks like a good tip. It never hurts to speed up builds. In fact, in my experience, it can really help a project.
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Improved Chess and Calculator apps in Panther!

This Spymac post has some interesting pictures from the latest beta release of Panther, build 7B21. What I'm most enthused about is the Exchange support apparently built in to Mail and AddressBook. That will really help out at the office where everyone else is on Windows XP/Outlook/Exchange. IMAP does the trick for mail right now, and I think I could work something out with LDAP and ActiveDirectory if I'd sit down and work on it, but I'd much prefer to have Apple do it for me. Plus, I know there are plenty of other places where IT isn't nice enough to run IMAP on Exchange. (It helps to be IT.) If they hook iCal up to Exchange, then I'll be all set. (Before this news, I was excited to hear that Microsoft would be releasing an Entourage update with Exchange support, but I like this better.)

Oh, and there really are improvements to Chess and Calculator and a host of other bits. Check it out. (Particularly the rotating board movie.)
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