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Microsoft to Gut Longhorn to Make 2006 Delivery Date precedes WinFS Axed From Longhorn Client and Server. The end result? Longhorn is going to be a lot more of an evolutionary than a revolutionary Windows release. The end result? Even more time for Mac OS X to beat Windows to the punch. 2006? That's a […]

My early computer memories could fill a book, but folklore.org reminded me of a few that surface only rarely. I'm listing them here for myself so that they may serve as a stronghold against the rising tide of forgotten memories. In no particular order…

Both of these books are now available: Mac OS X Panther Hacks and CSS Cookbook from O'Reilly (and Barnes & Noble, etc.). I served as the Technical Editor for both, and both now sit on my shelves as valuable references. The CSS Cookbook will come in handy enough when Tiger's Dashboard widgets (constructed in HTML, […]

As I was reading the Nintendo Revolution FAQ at IGN.com today, one thought kept occurring to me: why not offer a Firewire port as a connector? Gamers could plug in their iPods (or, at least, a portable FW drive), play music from their own selection(s), and store all of their game saves, etc. in a […]

Today for Father's Day I used Remote Desktop to tap into my parents' computer. I built a quick, simple web page for my dad and left it open for him in Safari. Of course, my mother gave him the presents I'd bought a few weeks ago, and I called later in the day. Remote Desktop […]

Joel Spolsky has posted another "Microsoft is Stupid" missive at joelonsoftware.com. Many of his points are valid, and his main point is rather lucid, but one paragraph stood out for me as a Mac user and developer. The toss-aside paragraph comes in a section in which Joel talks about Microsoft's engineering efforts in getting old […]

As I write this, .Mac's email service has been out for over five hours. Lovely.

Microsoft Exec #1: We've got a steaming pile of shit for an OS in which thousands of holes are found each month!?! What to do? Microsoft Exec #2: Let's sell our own anti-virus software, profiting from our ineptitude! I heard a few years ago that about 1/3 of all Windows software did one of three […]

Though I admire this guy for pushing Web standards, I am annoyed by the conclusion: Apple should port Safari to Windows. How in the world would this make any sense? While iTunes makes money for Apple and provides a common ground for a multiplatform hardware product (the iPod), and while QuickTime ties into Apple's media […]

An article on Slate talks about how most celebrity playlists suck. After checking out a few, I agreed. I also recalled that Michael Stipe had a celebrity playlist. Neither the standard search for "Michael Stipe" or "Michael Stipe Playlist" returned the playlist. I eventually had to navigate to the home page, find the "Celebrity Playlists" […]

Matthew Thomas presents an interesting reason not to use Gmail: From the Intellectual Property Rights section: "…you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any […]

Said a Microsoft employee very recently regarding the Cringely article that has caused a small stir in the Mac community (re: the new iPod division and the possible, eventual demise of "the Mac"): Maybe they'll sell an x86 version of Mac OS for a few years. Then, Microsoft will fall way behind on Longhorn and […]

Option-click the green zoom button in iTunes. Interesting.

File this one under "if you're stupid enough to run a 108k 'Office 2004' Installer from a peer-to-peer network, you deserve to have all of your ~/ deleted": Intego, the Macintosh security specialist, was notified by Macworld (UK) on May 10, 2004 about a Trojan horse, discovered by one of its readers who downloaded and […]

I have a small PHP/MySQL project for someone who's interested. The project is - primarily - a back-end "admin" area for a project I'm working on. It loosely relates to PulpFiction. Anyone who is interested should IM me. If you're skilled with PHP and MySQL, this work should take about three to four hours. We're […]