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"If you're a bad guy and you want to frustrate law enforcement, use a Mac."

Question: If you were given $50 and told that you had to spend it on a present for yourself, what would you buy? Paying your phone bill is not a "present" for the purpose of this question.

My Answer: I'd buy a pair of golf shirts or pants. I, being the geek that I am, have entirely too many t-shirts. Or, given that it's winter, I'd spend it on a pair of gloves and a warm hat or something (and spend the left-over on socks or sweats). Not very exciting, but, there it is.

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

Joel (on Software) points to a little CLI app for Windows called "PureJPEG" that removes a bunch of unnecessary data from JPEGs to reduce their size.

I'm wondering if there's something like this that I can run on Mac OS X, CLI or Drag-n-Drop or whatever. I typically just save all of my JPEGs with Photoshop's "Save for Web" feature.

Question: What's the ugliest site you still visit regularly?

My Answer: I don't visit a whole lot of ugly sites. The truly ugly ones are usually hidden behind an RSS feed, like this one. 🙂 Perhaps the ugliest site I visit regularly (because its RSS feed has only headlines when I last checked) is xlr8yourmac.com. I have PulpFiction set to show the article in the preview pane instead of the feed content, so I see the site daily.

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

Want a 15% discount on a Mac? Get in touch with me privately. This one's for people I can trust at least a little, so, apply only if you're in need and trustworthy, eh? And not a student. You guys get your own darn deals. 🙂

A feature I truly did not know existed, as explained by David Clark (edited a little):

• Your friend sends you a message (i.e. "How do you properly kill an NSTimer?")
• You start a long-ish reply (i.e. "You have to invali")
• They send you another message which requires a shorter response (i.e. "Is it cold there?")
• You press ctrl-s, which temporarily stores your long-ish message on a stack and clears the message field.
• You reply with a short message (i.e. "Hell yeah!")
• You press ctrl-s, and your unfinished message reappears! You finish typing "date it and then make sure you do with the memory what needs to be done - release it, assign nil, whatever.")

That's the basic operation. ctrl-down will also "push" a message temporarily, and you can even push more than one message at a time. ctrl-up will "pop" the messages back off in reverse order.

Great stuff! I will also pass this along: option-up and down scrolls through your message history. I use that one a lot.

Okay, I have two things to say about tonight's Survivor.

One: Ding dong, the witch is dead, the witch is dead, the witch is dead.

Two: If Chris were smart, he'd immediately drop the baggage that is Twila and Scout and form an alliance to go to the final three with Eliza and Julie.

But as I sit here and think about the second thing, I find myself doing a little "electoral math" of my own. It gets long so it goes in the extended entry portion…

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Question: What's your worst hygiene related bad habit?

My Answer: Well, working from home, sometimes it's really easy to forget to shower. One time I went three days between showers. I mean, you don't sweat much typing right? And heck, I often forget to eat and sleep too.

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

The Canadian iTMS is open, and songs are only $0.99. In Canadian dollars. That's like, what, $0.75 in US dollars?

I guess that's Apple's way of saying "sorry it took us so long, eh?"

P.S. I just found out that the only songs available in the Canadian iTMS are those by Celine Dion. Bummer, eh? Ya hosers. 🙂

My high today? Finding out that I could ditch the Sports package on my DirecTV account because, at some point in the past six months, The Golf Channel moved into their regular channel lineup.

That's $144/year I now have to spend elsewhere.

Plus, I moved my golf blog and its accompanying (and new) golf forum to a new server and account today at $25/month, and mentioned offhand that my $110/month account is going for $70/month. My billing was adjusted and now I'm paying $95 - $15 less than before and for two accounts! Wowee! 🙂

Question: What was your word of the year?

My Answer: Carey. Love. Erie. Love. Carey. Take your pick. 🙂

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

Sometimes, in Mac OS X, I click or double-click in a window only to see a window behind the front window come forward. Sometimes I haven't even moved the mouse, and when I hide the app that's sprung forward, I find my mouse pointer easily surrounded by 100 pixels in each direction by the other application - the one I intended to click.

By "sometimes" I mean, of course, way too freakin' often!!! This happens all the time - at least ten times per day (granted, I use my computer a lot). I'm not sure whether it's my mouse software (USB Overdrive) or what, but I'm 100% certain that I'm clicking on the right thing, yet things behind the object of my clicks comes forward.

And no, the windows I'm trying to click aren't transparent or anything like that. They're regular old windows, fully opaque, etc. Andy (who should comment shortly) has seen this problem too.

If you're interested in helping us translate PulpFiction to Japanese, please contact me - erik:freshsqueeze:com (you should be able to figure that one out).

We'd like to include the Japanese translation in the 1.2 release (mid-January or so).

Here's MailDrop 2's icon.

Of course, it won't be 500 x 500 on your desktop or in your dock, but we've got it tweaked out pretty well. In the end, we decided to ditch the smile. It has more personality this way, Scott says.

The document icon is coming along. MailDrop 2 is scheduled for release on December 9.

Holy mother of $DEITY, editing "styles" (and templates, and so on) in vBulletin is a freakin' bitch! Holy crap, seriously. I have no idea where to find anything, since seemingly everything is a variable. What styling is there is so horribly done it'd be tough to figure out even if it was one file. I search and get nothing, or I search and 20 different files. There are something like 320 files in the style I'm using.

Replacing some of the images is the easiest thing in the world. See ugly icon, upload better looking one in its place. But beyond that, holy cow man. What a bitch.