Posted on November 18, 2008 at 6:49 am
So, the basic plot for this novel is one that has been bouncing around in my skull for, oh, about ten years now. I’ve always had a pretty good idea who the main cast would be, what they would be like, and how the plot would go. On November 1st I sat down to finally [...]
Posted on September 23, 2008 at 11:59 pm
So, The Crazy Apple News Crew (CANC?) leaves early tomorrow morning to go to Colorado for a day. We’re going by plane (but by biplane. This is the 21st century, not the 19th.), so the title doesn’t really make any sense at all. But my question to you all is: What does one do when [...]
Posted on September 15, 2008 at 11:03 pm
You may have noticed a brief outage earlier today. Hopefully, looking at the site now, you’ll see why that happened. This should be the last theme change for a while. Until they come out with a Snow Leopard theme, anyway.
Posted on August 28, 2008 at 7:20 am
We thought this new theme was a bit more Appley. You know, more Leopardy, less Linuxy. More iTunesish, less Amarokesque. Also, you may notice a newish buttony thing down on the right hand side…
Posted on July 15, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Apple took iDisk in a new direction with the release of Mobile Me.
For years, the iDisk icon has been the now-all-too-familiar “some kinda network-magic-ball” on a hard disk, suggesting that an iDisk is, well, a hard drive on the network (or possibly the other way around. I’m not sure.) Now, however, the iDisk icon [...]
Posted on May 29, 2008 at 7:10 am
The problem with stealing someone’s thunder is this: You’ve been walking down the street and saw the thunder laying there on the dining room table, nobody in sight, and thought, “I can use that!” So you sneak in, pick up the thunder, and just as you are sneaking back out of the house, Someone [...]
Posted on May 23, 2008 at 10:00 am
$ transcribe_conversation.rb audio_log_05212008.mp3
transcribing…
conversation.rtf created!
$ mate conversation.rtf1
Nate: Okay, android….er, what’s your…name? Designation? Number?
Android: Handle.
Nate: Handle? That’s so… 70’s trucker.
Android: 10-4 good buddy.
Nate: O-Okay. So, what’s your <sigh> handle?
Android: I am called acts_as_service.
N: Catchy.
A:Yes.
N: Anyway, acts_as_service, as you know, I’m going to be out camping with my family [...]
Posted on May 15, 2008 at 9:48 am
Sad news from the world of open source computing today as Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and principle author of the GNU Public License, was put to sleep.
“It was for his own good, really,” remarked Eric S. Raymond. ”He was getting, well, rabid is the only way to describe it. I mean, [...]