Long rant about being a bicyclist, and all the effort that goes into avoiding cars and hating buses, etc. As someone who bicycle commutes ~3 days/week, I am on his side… especially about the turn signals.
Anyway, if there’s one thing I’d ask you drivers out there as a favor to us bikers — even though I know you loathe us — it’s that you please, please, please always use your turn signal. You can’t always see us. We know that. But we have to keep to your right, where you’re not always looking.
Quitting Radio and starting it again fixed the problem, and it updated the older posts. Back to other topics than the process… maybe more interesting, maybe not. 😉
In fact, I’m trying to finish something here so I can go into the living room and turn on the TV.
It’s early Thursday morning, and I just noticed that my Tuesday posts didn’t get published online. I didn’t post anything yesterday (Wednesday), so that gap in the calendar is real/deliberate, but this is mildly annoying. Over the weekend, I regenerated my entire website because of this problem. We’ll see if this boring update goes through.
Now it’s time to figure out how to effectively use two computers together, for everything from email to blogging to music to photos. It may be time to dig beneath the OS X covers (uh oh), since Unix plumbing is intended for this kind of usage. Any sites with compelling details of how to successfully integrate two Macs?
Over at About.com, Heinz rates his top 10 Windows News Aggregators. I didn’t read carefully enough, so I was looking for NetNewsWire, and was disappointed/surprised. Of course, NNW is only for MacOS, so it didn’t make the list.
I haven’t tried more than three on MacOS X.
Point being, everyone on MacOS X that I can think of uses NNW or NNW Lite. Please point me to worthy competitors, because I don’t know them. Doesn’t mean I’ll have time to try them, because I’ll be flipping through my 53 subscriptions in NNW (and I think that’s a low number from what I’m reading elsewhere).
Finally broke down and ordered the laptop computer I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years. My choice? The 12″ one, for price and portability reasons. Having seen my sister’s, I know it’s still relatively heavy, but beats my G4/400 in most ways.
Most interesting part to me, in this global world (yes, that’s redundant), is the shipping. I ordered it from the Apple Store (perhaps foolish, as I pay California sales tax, but there you are. So, where is it coming from? Taiwan. Now, I’m not surprised that it’s built in Asia, given the state of the world and of tech, but it is interesting that shipping something (even something relatively small) across the Pacific Ocean is clearly more economical than building the machine here in the United States. According to FedEx, the machine’s voyage started in TAOYUAN CITY TW, and made its way to TA YUAN HSIANG TW, before arriving at C.K.S. INTL AIRPORT TW. The transoceanic laptop left from there for ANCHORAGE AK (hmmm… most direct route?) to make its United States landfall. It left Anchorage this afternoon, so we’ll see when it arrives in San Francisco.
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I appreciated this PeterMe.com post, both for the text and for the appropriately looping illustration.
Just moved to digital cable today (10 minute visit by cable folks… nice), and caught 30+ minutes of Bill Cosby — Himself. So very, very funny… and the parts on parenting and childbirth are even funnier once you’ve been there. Best quote: “I am not the boss of my house. … And I don’t want the job.” Out of context, probably doesn’t have you rolling on the floor laughing. Trust me. See it when you can, or see it again.
Imagine having enough data that you need to send a full PC through the mail as a modern version of the floppy. This interview touches on a lot of future architectural challenges in technology, but the specific tale is interesting, too. [found via ongoing]