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Question: What is your favorite number and why?

My Answer: I like 6 and 9, and thus, 18. I've always liked 6, and my love of "9" comes from golf. The fact that both 6 and 9 can be multiplied (not by each other) to get 18 is a bonus, but I liked 18 when Andy Van Slyke played as #18 for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Question: For how long did you use OmniDazzle before you threw it away?

My Answer: Three. 🙂

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If everyone could do me a favor, please click this link. If you feel really generous, click around a few links (and stay on that site). Thanks. I appreciate it.

If anyone wants to buy Billiards Drills .com, the asking price is $500, though I'm quite flexible. 😉

I shot 83. I played five near-perfect shots (if you don't count a tap-in, which is quite difficult to do other than perfectly…) to begin the round. That course puts so much emphasis on driving the golf ball well it's not funny.

This marks the second famous course I've played this year. I'm going to try to get on Oakmont or something to complete a "three-fer" of U.S. Open courses in 2006.

It wouldn't be The Memorial without rain. But today, I'm driving to Detroit. Hopefully I'll escape the rain.

Much coverage of The Memorial was done at The Sand Trap.

I wonder if this company knew of my former company. Hmmmm…

Incidentally, I hope to have some news to report here about PulpFiction. Suffice to say, someone who actually develops software instead of buying it and doing nothing with it for over a year may be interested in getting it back from the current owner…

I've been given a press pass to cover The Memorial. Last year I attended as a spectator. This year I'll have a work station, a three-meals-a-day buffet, and inside-the-ropes access. I look forward to hanging out in the interview room, getting on the course, and taking lots of pictures as I did last year.

Tiger Woods will not be at the tournament and will not register a start on the PGA Tour since finishing T3 at The Masters back in early April. It is the first time Tiger has missed Jack Nicklaus' tournament.

Muirfield Village, just outside Columbus in Dublin, OH is Jack's own Augusta National. He even has a par-three 12th hole with a peanut-shaped green playing over water. Needless to say, it's a demanding test of golf. I'm excited.

I'll be staying in Findlay, OH (where I used to buy hockey gear while going to school in Ada, OH) with some in-laws.

I back up my personal settings (Address Book, iCal, Keychain, Safari Settings, and Stickies) nightly to .Mac. The full backup is 2.1 MB. That's fine.

But I have 230+ other incremental backup files on my iDisk, and they are each about 1 MB. Needless to say, I'm wasting a lot of space. How can I instruct Backup to clear these stupid files (on a regular basis)? If I don't watch out, I'll run out of iDisk space soon! 😛

I'm editing a book for O'Reilly right now on CSS. As a technical editor on CSS Cookbook, I'm sure you can imagine what I'm doing now…

It's amazing how many useful things I've simply forgotten to do. The re-discovery of the <fieldset> tag, wow! And simple things like access keys that I should be including but which simply get bumped from my brain in the race to complete other portions of pages.

As I edit, I'm keeping a list of things I've forgotten or simply been too lazy to use. These two are on there, that's for sure.

Last year, I had a QotD as my only post on the day of my wedding. I didn't get around to writing about getting married until four days later.

Well, it's now a year later and I'm still married. Whew! 😉

This image (below) shows how NSLog(); looks as a graph wherein different page elements are assigned colors and the nesting determines the graph. It's explained more thoroughly here, and you can create your own graph at this page.

NSLog();

NSLog(@"Finish Reading %d Words", 174); »

I've written about TypeIt4Me and Textpander before, primarily here and here. Now the newly renamed "TextExpander" is out with version 1.3 and the fine folks at "Smile on my Mac" have created a little chart showing how much better their product is than TypeIt4Me.

The problem is, the things for which they get a check but TypeIt4Me does not are things about which I do not care. They are:

• Snippets with formatted text and pictures
• Create snippet from selected text
• Snippet nesting
• Services menu item to create snippets
• Import snippets from other utilities

Worse yet, TypeIt4Me has application-specific snippets, can be enabled and disabled via the keyboard and menu bar, and can have multiple snippet files.

NSLog(@"Finish Reading %d Words", 286); »

I think the Nike iPod Jogging thingy is awesome. $29.99 or whatever it is? Great price. Too bad running is so bad for your joints… how long until I can get one that goes in my golf shoes and tells me how far I walked in a day and provide me with some tunes when I'm playing poorly (or really well). I mean, Tiger's a big Nike guy, they've gotta have something in mind. My "Power Tune" could be "Eye of the Tiger!"

I wonder if the shoe unit charges itself with the compressions from your heel.

I've just signed up at cork'd because I'd like to, some day, learn something about wines and begin enjoying them. I did grow up in North East, PA, which competes with just about anywhere in the world for being the largest wine producer per capita. Or something like that…

Anyway, if someone out there actually knows about wine and has signed up at cork'd, please let me know so that I can add you as a "Drinking Buddy" and so that I may see which wines you like in order to get me started.

Cheers!

Question: What features would you like to see in Mac OS X 10.5?

My Answer: I'd like to see Boot Camp turned into a pure virtual environment that doesn't require logging in and out. Basically, what Virtual PC had - Windows in a window. Outside of that, I don't have many requests. Mac OS X 10.4 does what I need and does it well. Though, when I do think of things, I'll add them as comments. 😀

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