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The Florida heat has claimed another victim: my rearview mirror. I went to deposit some checks and pick up some McDonald's for lunch (they didn't get my order right again - I'm done with Mickey D's) and it was hanging by the electrical cords used to power the lights.

Driving without a rearview mirror is an experience. An odd feeling crept over me every time I looked at the place where the mirror should be. Instead of seeing a little picture of what's behind me, I saw a dangling cord. Deep down in my psyche this didn't seem to make sense: there's an odd disconnect between the fact that you're viewing a reflection of what's behind you and actually having a nearly borderless image floating in the sky visible through your windshield. Turning around to look is impractical, and even so, your sense of right and left is flipped from the way you normally perceive it (in your mirrors). And this happens several times per minute: like the times you forget your watch and keep looking at your wrist, I couldn't stop looking at the place where the mirror used to be.

I suppose that's a good thing. Better that than never checking my mirrors, right? I'll get it repaired tomorrow. It's not like it's not under warranty.

Happy 03/03/03. I've always liked days like this. They're fun, they're quirky, they only happen once per year at the most (though 01/02/03 happened this year too), and often only every 11 years (3/3/33).

Far be it from me to ignore a woman in distress. She's quite clearly calling out for links!

i got a vibrator for my birthday! and just what i wanted! (i lied about the trampoline.) double w00t! you're probably wondering if you'll ever hear from me again. i know, i know. don't worry, though, the batteries will wear out eventually...right?

The entry is titled "how to increase traffic #47." It worked. (I am going to point this out, from Vinay: masturbateforpeace.com.)

5:56pm:     Feanor: didn't Stuart Cheshire write Bolo?
5:56pm:       Toad: up
5:56pm:       Toad: yup
5:56pm:    mikeash: indeed
5:56pm:     Feanor: he wrote Rendezvous
5:56pm:    mikeash: all hail King Stuart

Thank you for visiting the site of the foremost expert on Joe Millionaire "winners" Zora and Evan. Yes, that's correct: I am the world's foremost authority on Zora and Evan.

According to Google, anyway. My previous entry on Zora and Evan has put me at the top of Google's search results for this topic.

Interesting. It's amazing how quickly this happens. I rank quite highly on the topic of "Trista and Ryan" (same entry as the Zora and Evan one). This is the third entry in which I've ever used the word "Zora," for what that's worth. Google is weird. Fun, but weird.

At least I'm not the first link in "FedEx Sucks."

I hate multiple TrackBacks. They're like spam: the burden of time and effort is on the recipient, and besides turning TrackBacks for an entry off, there's nothing you can really do to prevent multiple TrackBacks from the same article from being attached to your entries. Once a day I have to delete a duplicate TrackBack.

MovableType should notice a TrackBack from the same remote URL on the pinged URL and reply with an "OK" but not add it to the database. Grrrr… >:-o

Just got an email: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/msn/ just went up. Speaketh Andy: "who in their right mind uses msn?" I don't know.

Codepoet at Codepoetry.net has some funny subtitles right now. A few of them that I've seen lately:

• Press button to test. Release to detonate.
• I want what money can't buy: more money.
• This message is shareware. If you read it, send me $5.00
• Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.

I've considered putting in funny quotes instead of the subtitle thing I have up there right now. I might. Some day. Maybe.

I want one of these. Unfortunately, I don't know if it's worth $25 to me. Any chance those people will send me one? I'd post again later saying how much I liked it, I promise I would… 🙂

Actually, I just mentioned to Matt that we're probably not too far off from this. After all, I used to run Apple Wizards, have reviewed in MacAddict, etc. In short, when will blogging begin to become more commercialized? We're very, very close.

In fact, just as a test, I'm going to email the URL of this entry to the iSkin folks to see if there's something they want to do about it. After all, the amount of press they'll gather is bound to be worth it, right? I'd like the lime one. 😉

P.S. Originally found the link to the skins things from Judi. The laptop skins are new. I have a frosted skin for my iPod, but I don't think it's one of theirs: I got it at WWDC 2002 from a Japanese company.

Eric-with-a-C has some commentary on my previous article on interviewing programmers. I also had a conversation with Jeff after I posted my article. I want to refine my point of view.

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So today I played a bit more Quake 3. As I have the Cinema, I have to play it in a window to get a resolution other than 640 x 480. 1152 x whatever with the all the effects set to the highest quality is still silky smooth on this dual 800. I used my 12" AlBook as the server.

You'll notice (barely) in the screenshot to the right that I've not bothered to quit any of my applications. I've got Quake going, Adium, Entourage (checking 10 accounts), iTunes, Kung-Tunes, NetNewsWire, Safari, CPU Monitor, etc.

Two years ago, doing this would have been absolutely unthinkable.

I should have written a bit more clearly in my previous article on this "bug" (note the quotes), but having failed to do so previously, I'll do so now.

This behavior (allowing you to replace a folder with a file) is not a bug, but the dialog could be worded better. Flat out not allowing me to replace something when I have explicitly instructed the Finder to do so - by dragging and dropping something to a different location - is in fact the bug, and it existed in Mac OS < X. Thus, I consider 9's behavior to be the annoying - and buggy - one, not X's. Again I agree, however, that 9's dialogs on this were better worded.

Jon lists two possible reasons why you could not do this in 9, but I'll add a third: the Finder 9 engineers went overboard in their efforts to protect the user from themselves. That doesn't make them idiots as Jon's first idea states (as a possibility to explain this behavior).

I've updated my RSS 1.0 feed per the instructions on O'ReillyNet. Actually, I only implemented the errorReportsTo thing, but I'm blogging this so that if I ever want to list comments and TrackBacks in my feeds, I can more easily do so.

For your eyes only: animated sexual positions, courtesy of a condom maker. Wow, it doesn't get much kinkier than these pixellized pornos… with sound effects! 🙂

Looking for a quick AppleScript to update your blogroll? Look no further than the script posted in the comments to Jeremy Zawodny's Blogroll Updates and… Scripting NNW. I've got a longer entry on AppleScript planned for later, but this example illustrates some of my points nicely. Quite nice, quite useful, quite Mac. B-)