NSLog();

Jeremy talks about the burning of Iraqi libraries and museums, some of which house items thousands of years old:

As I say, I'm having a hard time with this so don't expect rational arguments from me. I guess Bush and company can be happy that their war finally achieved something that will keep it in the history books for a long time to come.

Like our Shrub, I went through a period in my life when I didn't value museums or libraries, too. I think I was about six.

Need to feel better about yourself? Put yourself in this "poor" woman's shoes:

I have met a twenty-six-year-old male who has many things going for him: absolutely amazing in bed (quite cunnilingually gifted!), intelligent, and possessed of a razor-sharp wit. Of course, the reason I'm writing to you is because he is, to put it delicately, UGLY.

That's putting things delicately? Gee whiz. The woman then goes on to say that she's embarrassed to introduce this boyfriend of hers (for six months) to her family and friends. Read the advice column answer here. Summary: grow up or come clean.

NSLog(@"Finish Reading %d Words", 686); »

Question: If you could arrange for one thing to happen to your spouse (or boyfriend/girlfriend) without them knowing you arranged it, what would you plan?

My Answer: I would plan a surprise cruise, partly because I've always wanted to go on one (free food 24/7!) and partly because it's a romantic way to spend a few days with someone, catch up on your tan, etc.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Question: If you had to choose the most extreme example of sexual harassment, what would it be?

My Answer: One of my college professors made very little effort to conceal the fact that she wanted me. I managed to milk a few easy 'A's out of her, though, so I don't really care. I guess I'm not purty enough to have been sexually harassed.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Today I took my prepared tax return to the post office and deposited the bastard in the mail. The envelope looked like this:

It had about ten sheets of paper in there, so I stuck on four $0.34 stamps and two $0.37 stamps. That should do it. The amount of the check inside was considerably higher.

I've been noticing a lot of people signing up for the FSS Mailing List today. Now I know why. On Friday's Call For Help, the show Chris Pirillo used to run, Leo Laporte mentioned that he may show how to run a screen effect as a background this week. Brad, author of BackLight, which does this, wrote to him. Leo responded:

Awesome, Brad. I'll plug it today. Looks like you all do some very cool stuff!

As linked above, you can see the link to FSS at this Call for Help show notes page. Once when Bob LeVitus was on The Screen Savers he mentioned Memogram, another piece of FSS freeware.

Jamie would like some help:

…help me generate a thesis for a term paper in Gender & Technology. I plan on suggesting new educational and occupational (company policy) practices that would help to further close the gender gap in the Digital Divide.

Y'all are smart, so hop over to Tits and Wits .com and leave a suggestion.

I'm off to run some errands for a few hours, but I wanted to point out that Safari 1.0 Beta 2 is available here or via Software Update.

Will write more later. I've been using later versions for awhile now and I'm curious if some crashes, etc. that I've continued to have (antipixel.com crashes Safari v69 regularly) have been cleaned up.

All versions of Safari - including 1.0b2 (v73) routinely mess up my <pre class="small">. I've defined that to be a smaller font size than <pre>, yet Safari v62-73 all render them the same size. v60 did it properly. Here are two lines:

This text is wrapped in a normal pre tag.

This text is wrapped in a pre class="small" tag

You can see my stylesheet (which validates as proper CSS) here. Note the "pre.small."

Update: I've since modified my stylesheet to just render everything "pre" the same size. Screw it.

This site now validates as XHTML 1.1. I spent a few hours working on this - had to change the nesting of some things, had to hack at my stylesheet a little (hspace, vspace, border aren't XHTML 1.1).

Only one problem remains: MovableType puts target="_blank" in when someone gives a URL with their comment. This causes individual pages to fail when such a comment w/URL is present.

NSLog(@"Finish Reading %d Words", 387); »

Have a look at this:

Where'd that come from? Early sketches of Mac OS X? NeXT? Try the Lisa. There's more Lisa information here.

I'm about to go into my living room to read a book (see previous post), but I wanted to continue to play my iTunes songs and control them. Then it dawned on me: I've got a lot of shell scripts to do this for me! Tucked away in ~/Documents/Stuff/MiscShellScripts (which I've added to my path) are little apps named nexttrack, resumetrack, prevtrack, pausetrack, and playtrack.

Their content? They range from being quite simple to a bit more complex. I've posted a few below.

NSLog(@"Finish Reading %d Words", 195); »

Jamie and I went to Barnes & Noble last night to burn off some energy. She grabbed some sort of coffee, and I had an absolutely wonderful drink from Jones Soda called Bada Bing: black cherry and logbanberry. Where can I buy this stuff (locally, so as not to pay $9 S&H)?

At any rate, Jamie and I decided to pick out a book each for each other. This can be "our thing" she said. I picked out The Black Tulip by Dumas for her (she's busy right now and it's short) and she chose Something Happened by Joseph Heller for me.

But first I'm going to re-read Catcher in the Rye. It's on my list.

In an article I titled Ed Chooses Carol, the title of which gives away the Ed season finale, Alexei took objection to my practice:

NSLog(@"Finish Reading %d Words", 438); »

I agree with Sven-S. Porst in his rebuttal of Dave Weinberger (who thought his 2.1 megapixel images were 830MB) on the issue of whether to capture larger images or smaller images from a digital camera.

I've always taken my images on the highest quality setting available. I think of it as insurance. CD-Rs are cheap enough that if I run out of disk space, I'll offload some images. But the insurance? You never know what you'll need an image for in the future - it could be a 24" x 36" poster - get and save as much information as possible now.

Once you lose data, it's gone. You can compress, but you can't go the other way.

Not really, but this is interesting:

2003.04.12 16:55:28    218.222.150.178    Search: query for 'darko'
2003.04.12 16:56:25    218.222.150.178    Invalid login attempt from user 'darko'
2003.04.12 16:56:33    218.222.150.178    Invalid login attempt from user 'darko'