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In (recently) replacing the 15-year-old refrigerator recently, Carey and I looked for a fridge ((Why is it "refrigerator" but "fridge"?)) on the upper-end of those available at Lowe's. No stainless or anything - just one ranked highly by Consumer Reports, in black, with a freezer on the top (CR says they're more reliable).

Almost every ((And I'm only saying "almost" to cover my bases - I think it was every model.)) mid- to top-end model had built-in water, either for ice-making alone or water and ice.

The folks at Lowe's recommended I buy a self-piercing saddle valve. So I did - drilled the hole in the tile, threaded the water line through, pierced the valve… all was fine and dandy.

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I bought it and am working my way through on "Easy." 🙂 I'll move up to Medium eventually, but for now, easy is just fine.

I spent 5-10 minutes today watching some YouTube videos of people playing some songs on Expert - even some getting 100% on expert - and wow. Those people have some crazy talent… and entirely too much free time. 😀

Has anyone used a Cocoa graphics framework that's capable of drawing things like line, pie, and bar graphs?

I agree with these, from an article named "Holes in Spaces":

• You explicitely ask for a different desktop: using one of the keyboard shortcuts or using the F8 Exposé-like mode.
• You switch to an application that you have chosen to attach to a specific desktop (e.g. you might want all you Mail stuff to stay in Desktop 3).
• You explicitely select a particular window situated in a different desktop, for example if you select that window in the Windows menu, or open the corresponding document from the Finder.

Of course, I'd have to add to the list a clarification that actions like the automatic closing of a sheet should not take you back to another space, too.

Due to a variety of things - a semi-bum shoulder I didn't want to risk hurting further prior to a golf trip, the golf trip, etc. - tonight was my first hockey game.

It's incredibly obvious that I've got a long way to go before I get to even a "good" level, but fortunately, that's all skating. In other words, if I can improve my skating, my hockey will improve.

I'm finding ice hockey to be interesting in that the puck moves a lot faster, we can use things like the boards that we couldn't use in college roller hockey, and there's a lot more room out there than we had before. I'm not quite certain where I should position myself most of the time, but I'm working on it.

Oh, and the score? Our first win of the year: 2-1. Maybe I'm good luck. 🙂

Trees sure do look nice, oh, five or six months out of the year. But they look like crap all winter, are dangerous in ice storms and high winds, and sure do drop a heck of a lot of leaves on the ground in the fall.

Our 10:1 chipper/blower has already produced about 25 bags of leaves. What's coming down now I think I'll just "leave" alone. Ugh.

Hopefully next year - with a yard instead of mostly landscaping - it will be easier to handle the leaves. I could just mulch them! 🙂

I'll likely have a "most liked" feature poll in a week or so, but for now, you get to bag on Leopard a little:

In using MarsEdit, I noticed what I at first thought was a bug in MarsEdit, but which turns out to be a bug or a usability flaw in Mac OS X 10.5 regarding Spaces.

I contacted Daniel Jalkut, and he put together a test application (TestSpaces) that displays the behavior simply:

1. Open a TextEdit window in Space 1.
2. In Space 2, open the TestSpaces app.
3. Click the button in the TestSpaces app, then switch to Space 1 and type some characters in your TextEdit document.
4. When the TestSpaces sheet automatically closes itself, you're automatically taken back to Space 2.
5. Type some more characters, then switch back to Space 1. Note that what you typed appears in TextEdit - which wasn't even in the space you were looking at when you typed them!

Needless to say, this is a problem. At least two things are wrong here:

1. When I switch away from an application, the closing of a sheet should not be enough to bring me back to its Space.
2. When I'm looking at a space, the key window should not be in another space.

I've filed a bug report (#5574819).

I hadn't noticed this subtle shift in the way Leopard "wishes" people to handle Input Managers until I noticed Speed Download's "For Leopard 10.5 ONLY" folder. It contains a readme telling people to run a script that does in part:

sudo cp -pR "$BASE_PATH" /Library/InputManagers
sudo cp -pR "$BASE_PLUGIN_PATH" /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers
rm -rf ~/Library/InputManagers/SpeedDownload\ Enhancer
rm -rf ~/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/SpeedDownload\ Browser\ Plugin.plugin

My /Library/InputManagers/ folder currently contains four items:

1. 1PasswdIM
2. Ecamm
3. Inquisitor
4. SpeedDownload Enhancer

Three of them are registered products. Two add buttons and/or somewhat confusing functionality to Safari ((Inquisitor adds functionality, but doesn't really change Safari's behavior much at all.)), the system's default browser and the one all users on my computer are likely to use.

I don't want the other users on my system to have to deal with Speed Download launching or wondering what that "keyhole button" does, nor should they be nagged to purchase something they've never installed themselves.

So who's to blame here? Apple for failing to let people use ~/Library/InputManagers or the developers themselves for abusing something that's not intended for these purposes?

Two nights ago I read someone's suggestion to use Speed Download to pull down the 6.7 GB Leopard disk image from ADC. I'd previously used a few other download managers/accelerators, but Speed Download seems to have separated itself lately, and I figured I'd give it a shot.

It turned out to be a worthy investment: it downloaded Leopard in about 45 minutes during the middle of the day. Prior attempts to download earlier seeds often took as long as six or seven hours.

P.S. Speed Download insists on using StuffIt Expander. I deleted it (actually, I .zipped it up) on my main drive, and now I see it's found it on my Time Machine drive! Why can't it use the built-in un-.zipper?

It doesn't seem to work. It's hung my system a few times. One of the posters on Apple's discussion forums says:

I'm having the same problem, and am surprised to see such a simple thing not working in a final release of OS X. Also, there doesn't seem to be any point to there being a Securely Delete Trash option in the Finder preferences. When selected, emptying the trash does not securely empty the trash, but just empties it, so why is it there??

At any rate, I've disabled the option for now…

Oh, and "Microsoft Sync" crashes with regularity when syncing.

Today, since Halloween always falls on October 31, my header is a Halloween image. No rotating images today… just the one. I can't ((Well, not very easily, and frankly, it's not worth the trouble.)) do this for holidays like Thanksgiving. I can for Christmas, my birthday, etc.

Happy Halloween! I'm dressed as a geek. Go figure. 🙂

P.S. If I had a pumpkin to carve this year, I'd carve the π symbol into it.

I've upgraded to Leopard. Here are my thoughts on the process, a few of the new features that have struck me already, and the general minutae.

My Process
I did an "Archive and Install." I figured what little "extra" crap (like USB Overdrive, which I've re-installed) outside of my User folder I could re-install. It worked pretty well and, after verifying that everything I wanted had been ported over, I deleted the old system folder before it could be backed up by Time Machine.

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Traveling back to PA today. For future reference, the trip really does take 10 hours.

I played rather streakily. Except my putting - that was off all week. 😀 My best round was, by far, the Friday afternoon round at National.