NSLog();

My favorite movie is, according to Amazon, going to be available on DVD a day before my birthday this year! Woo hoo! To say I ordered it quickly is an understatement.

I once, at 17, signed up for a Blockbuster video card because they were the only place that had the movie on VHS. I borrowed it and never intended to return it. They eventually sent me a notice saying I owed $99.95 or something (the cost of the movie). My dad went in to Blockbuster and argued that they'd made a contract with a minor, and all the fees were removed.

But I had to return the movie. 😛

Years later I found it on VHS and bought a copy, which I now own. My VCR, however, hasn't been unpacked since I moved to Erie. My favorite movie on DVD… yay!

Question: What's the last book you read?

My Answer: Newton on the Tee: The Physics of Golf. It wasn't nearly as good as I'd hoped - almost no equations and not horribly scientific. Apparently there's a better book out there for that, and it's called "The Physics of Golf." After all, I prefer to know what I'm talking about when I write on my golf blog.

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

If your main Document is called "Yentel Proposal," Pages should name the backup document "Yentel Proposal Backup," not "Backup of Yentel Proposal." It's far more difficult than need to to find the corresponding backup document.

Question: Do you stretch every day?

My Answer: Yes. It's part of a fitness routine I'm doing for golf, based on the Ultimate Golf Fitness Guide.

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

Thank you, Pages, for telling me that "NewBaskerville" is missing from my document, even though it's specified in some style or another.

No thank you for providing me absolutely no way of knowing what style contains NewBaskerville.

Grrrr…

P.S. The XML doesn't even have line breaks, making tracking down the style with the missing font difficult at best.

Question: Did you/will you watch the Super Bowl?

My Answer: Nah. Got stuff to do.

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

We use a few defaults in PulpFiction to control the badge, and though you can't ever change them in the UI, they're quite accessible to those who what they're doing. The keys are FSSDockBadgeColor, FSSDockBadgeTextColor, and FSSDockBadgePosition. Here are some pertinent code snippets. You should be able to figure out what you need to do to set your own badge colors and positions:

[defaults setObject:[NSArray arrayWithObjects: [NSNumber numberWithFloat:0.0],
                                               [NSNumber numberWithFloat:.5],
                                               [NSNumber numberWithFloat:0.0],
                                               [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0], nil]
                                                forKey:@"FSSDockBadgeColor"];
[defaults setObject:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0],
                                              [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0],
                                              [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0],
                                              [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0], nil]
                                               forKey:@"FSSDockBadgeTextColor"];
[defaults setObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:FSSTopRight]
                     forKey:@"FSSDockBadgePosition"];

As you'll note, "FSSTopRight" isn't a string. So, here's the enum:

typedef enum FSSBadgeCorner 
{
    FSSTopRight = 0,
    FSSTopLeft = 1,
    FSSBottomRight = 2,
    FSSBottomLeft = 3
} FSSBadgeCorner;

Customize away! Link to screenshots of your favorite combination of colors and position (and list the numbers you use) in the comments - perhaps we'll change the default.

Question: Do you have (and use) a paper calendar of any kind (organizer, wall calendar, picture calandar, "Babe a Day" calendar)?

My Answer: I have two golf ones and a Weimaraner one. To say I "use" them is a bit of a stretch, but I own them and I look at them now and then.

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

Question: What's your average credit card APR?

My Answer: I have only one, and in about a week or two it will have a $0 balance. Its APR is 17.9%.

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

These people wish it to be so.

We the undersigned believe there should be a national holiday called Opening Day to take place the first Monday of April, coinciding with the start of the baseball season.

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As much as I despise Internet Explorer, I use it daily because pgatour.com crashes Safari just about every time you visit. I've submitted countless bug reports. Maybe, later today, I'll visit 10 times in a row and submit each crash report.

IE loads faster than any other browser (maybe besides iCab). Ancient poo for everything else, it works serviceably for using pgatour.com. And for filling out forms with lots of popup menus, something Safari still doesn't do as well.

Well, this about tells the story:

Acquisition price: $16.93 (USD)
Sale price: $79.19 (USD)

Let's see, that's only a 468% increase. In about a year. Not too shabby.

PulpFiction 1.2.1, a bug fix release, is now available. Primarily designed to fix an issue with the Lite version, we were able to sneak in a few fixes and improvements for PulpFiction itself. Here's the changelog:

• Articles are no longer marked read when the preview pane is collapsed.
• Clicking on the dock with no windows open once again opens a main window.
• Fixed new folder button display when creating a smart folder.
• Cleaned up a few memory issues.
• Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if a Link filter was used on a type of RDF feed.
• Set the authentication window to show the feed's url instead of the just the host.
• Updated the French localizations and fixed a couple strings that were being truncated.
• PulpFictionLite only: Fixed the bug that caused articles to not be displayed and other odd screen drawings.

PulpFiction continues to "crash in the background" for some people, presumably when checking feeds. Every log file we've seen has had APE in it. We haven't seen a "crashes in the background" crash log without APE for over five months (since 1.1 was released). We've tried to find the crash with people's databases and are simply unable to duplicate the problem. I use PulpFiction throughout the day, and a release version hasn't crashed on me in over half a year.

Question: What was your reaction to the State of the Union last night?

My Answer: I didn't watch it (and was kind of bummed that West Wing wasn't on), but the reaction seems to be quite good so far. Of course, most of the blogs I subscribe to that occasionally venture into politics are folks like me, and probably voted for Bush, though I do have a few Demo-centric political blogs in my list. Reaction from them seems unexpectedly "better."

Say whatever you want but be respectful in your comments or they'll be deleted - simple as that.

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

My friend Dave just let me know that PulpFiction earned 4½ mice in the March issue of Macworld. Better still is the fact that they reviewed PulpFiction 1.1.1 which, though a good piece of software, lacks quite a few nice features found in PulpFiction 1.2.

Macworld's Buying Advice:

We were excited to see so many high-quality Mac news readers. PulpFiction 1.1.1 is our favorite, thanks to its highly customizable interface, easy-to-use subscription-management features, and top-notch automatic sorting of feeds into groups.

Nice! An Apple Design Award and now 4½ mice. Now I'm off to add the little micey graphic to the PulpFiction page…