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Aug 11, 2003
iRooster

eSellerate

The Mac OS X shareware application that I have been working on, iRooster, is done. Well, that is, except for the lovely business of integrating the eSellerate engine into it. I have to say, the eSellerate people have been really cool, and really h...

Aug 10, 2003
Usability and UI Design

Linux Usability Disasters

The single most irritating type of comment I ever read on Slashdot is the “but we should stop copying Windows and invent our own unique, better user interface!” This bothers me to no end. I honestly cannot believe that the Linux community will dev...

Aug 10, 2003
Usability and UI Design

KDE Usability Gripes

Just for fun, let’s look over the KDE screenshot from before. Issues: What in the world is “aRTs?” Why would I want to enable or disable full duplex operation? Hell, I spent four years getting a computer science degree, and I have no clue he...

Aug 09, 2003
Mac OS X

Rendezvous

If I ever meet Stuart Cheshire, I am going to buy him a beer. I was bored to tears at work today – I completed the project that I’ve been working on a couple days ago, and everyone I work with is gone so I can’t get any feedback – so I started pu...

Aug 08, 2003
Zoon Politikon

A Minnesotan' Take On Arnold

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock since Wednesday you have heard that Arnold is running for governor of California. Considering that I had the good fortune to be a subject of Jesse Ventura until recently, I think that I have a pretty good...

Aug 07, 2003
Mac OS X

uninstalling kexts

I have one rather big issue with Mac OS X that I hope is resolved in the not-too-distant future. Removing nasty, buggy kernel extensions (kexts) is a terribly difficult process most of the time. Mind you, well-behaved kext authors do nice things l...

Aug 07, 2003
Personal Life

school' out forever

well, just about. I just got my grade for statistics, and I did far better than I could have expected, given that I never went to class, and all I wanted to do was pass it. As things stand now, all I need to do is get a grade for my Advanced Proje...

Aug 06, 2003
Blogs

Safari 1.0 Blues

Safari 1.0 (on Jag 10.2.6) seems to go absolutely bazonkers with my stylesheet (Georgia Blue on Movable Type 2.64). This sucks. A lot. I think that it will be rectified once I put more entries into the weblog, but who the hell knows. What’s happen...

Aug 06, 2003
Blogs

movable type

so, it looks like my new domain is pretty much all working at this point. It took less than 24 hours for it to percolate through the DNS system. I’m impressed. Usually it takes a wee bit longer than that. As a sidenote, you may notice that I am u...