NSLog();

So, sick of having to fire up Potatoshop for every little image resize, I thought I'd try out MovableType's support for NetPBM. I enabled it in mt.cfg and now I get:

Resource temporarily unavailable: write() at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/IPC/Run/IO.pm line 582

Inside the parentheses in write() is a bunch of gibberish (I imagine the binary data for the image I am attempting to resize).

NSLog(@"Finish Reading %d Words", 234); »

From the "speaking of sucking" category (see a few other posts from today)…

A week or so ago I posted an entry about a vodka ad that showed a guy getting head. Well, that's not the only such ad in existence.

Check this shit out! The ads shown on that page (one is to the right, here) show very clearly a girl giving a guy a blow job, and there's a white creamy substance on her upper thigh. Puma capitalizing on sex for their ads? Noooo, you don't say!

The page, titled "Flirt, Squirt, and Sex Sells?" also features a larger version of the ad seen to the right. I didn't know about the site before today, but I'll be adding their RSS feed to NetNewsWire now.

(Update: March 11, 2003 - see TrackBack - I've been asked by Puma to remove the ad from this page. I am doing so. I suspect external links will be taken down shortly as well.)

Wanted to clear one thing up: I don't think Bare Bones sucks - I got that comment from a chap on an IRC channel. It's a parody of their "BBEdit: It Still Doesn't Suck" slogan.

Personally, I think they're doing some awesome work. I think BBEdit Lite was an awesome product for the price (free), and it's a tribute to them that they provided it (free) for so long. $49 may be overpriced for a text editor, but I suppose they'll find out.

I just made a comment to Judi that BBEdit Lite -> TextWrangler is very much like iTools -> .Mac. I fully supported .Mac, and was simply grateful that Apple had seen fit to provide a free service for so long. I feel similarly towards Bare Bones. Were I an avid BBEdit Lite user, I'd evaluate my needs, and probably cough up the $49 or go back to TextEdit (free). I'm not actually facing that choice, though: I'll stick with BBEdit.

I need a bagel humidor or something. Do they exist? I like to eat bagels, so I buy a baker's dozen every week (from Einstein Brothers Bagels). I bought a bread box, but that keeps the bagels "fresh" for all of a day. After three, they're quite hard. Freezing them has the same effect - they dry out. I even tried putting a glass of water in the bread box hoping it'd saturate the air in there with evaporated water. It's 30 minutes round trip, so it's not a trip I want to make daily. Nor would I get the "dozen discount" or get to use my punch card.

What to do, what to do…

Throw another log on the fire: this one pisses me off daily.

Ever seen a dialog box (such as a save sheet, or in this case, creating a folder in a save dialog from Safari, Entourage, AppleWorks, etc.) that doesn't allow you to press "enter" (or "return") to "click" the default button? Or "escape" to cancel? This happens (I'm guessing) nearly 1/4 of the time I have a default or Cancel button.

That irks me to no end. Cocoa apps seem less prone to do this, but they're not without their fair share of blame either.

I wouldn't go so far as chandler on IRC put it, but the fact that Bare Bones Lite is now discontinued does kind of suck. The fact that TextWrangler, its $49 replacement, is what BBEdit Lite was but now costs money, sucks a little more.

I use BBEdit (not Lite) every day. I've used it every day for the past, ohhhh, thirty seven years or so. It's well worth it. Interesting economics at play here, I guess. Good luck BareBones.

Don't expect quality this good on your home computer anytime soon: Natural Voices @ AT&T.

The text I chose to have it speak first was:

This is a test. I am going to type some text and you, the computer, will read it back to me.

Have a go at it. Amaze your friends and coworkers. Save any funny clips and feel free to email them to me (don't post links in the comments - audio clips on the server are not saved).

(Update: I've added a Sound Set to Sound Set Central called "British Synthesis" that's based on these voices. It's fairly amusing.)

Funniest line from this tale of threedegrees is easily this:

It's the fault of the children, you see. In case you've missed all the fanfare, ThreeDegrees is Microsoft's new chat/P2P/music app that came about through the revolutionary process of asking the teenagers at which it's aimed to help design it. The app lets users organise themselves into social groups (point and clique?).

Josh and I were talking about ThreeDegrees the other day, and we think that unless something dramatic happens and changes, it will flop pretty hard. Teens are rebellious: Microsoft limiting what they can do with what they consider "their music" and certainly how many friends they can have in a group will be offputting. Oh, and so is the UI.

The movie wasn't bad. Heck, it was in theaters here for about eight months. Now it's a TV show. The downside? What worked as a movie simply doesn't work as a television show. Nia (the main gal) showed no comedic timing and some of the other actors - fine actors normally - simply failed to impress.

The show is very much like "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the fact that it was on right after ELR made that even clearer (I don't watch ELR anymore). It's another "annoying family that lives close by and intrudes on a married couple's lives with their eccentricity" show. Someone poke me when it's been cancelled. Until then… :-zzz

Seems AOL's "Report a Spam" feature has failed horribly at doing even the simplest of things:

Knowing that you forward my email address right back to the spammer (as proven in the case with plaidworks) makes it easy for the spammers to verify that my email address is real. Of all the stupid things that AOL has ever done, and there have been plenty, this move is by far the winner. Now that the spammers know that I file "spam reports" (because they receive the complaint from you with my valid email address) all they need to do is send spam from a different email account each time. Which explains the growth in my daily spam.

What are they going to do next, open every attachment? This, AOL's recent bad press, and the fact that 35 million user accounts were compromised spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E for AOL.

So Joe Millionaire concluded (again) this evening. Zora and Joe Evan met up again for the first time in three months, and didn't seem too excited to see each other. They were excited, mind you, just not too excited. They're a cute couple, and Zora's an awesome gal, so I hope she stays happy.

The two funniest parts of the show were easily the footage of the girls all watching the finale and the "Paul the Studly Butler" segment. I'd someday love to have a butler (who wouldn't?) but I'd certainly like to get one with Paul's spirit and wit.

Was Sarah in it for the money? Hell yeah. Were most of the other women? Hell yeah. And that's what made the little "reunion" show so special. Besides, in the end, none of them really despised Joe Evan or had bad things to say about him (or Zora), and that speaks volumes.

Matt and I were rapping earlier today and he mentioned how much he liked php.net's search function (php.net/searchterm). This just after a discussion about how necessary "Search" is on our blogs.

So, putting 3 and 1 together, I came up with a built-in search function of my own. I no longer have a 404 page: you're instead either redirected to the page (if there's only one result) or you're shown the search results. So now, just type "http://nslog.com/blah" where "blah" is the search term. Go ahead, give it a try!

Got too many pigs? Feed them to your alligators. Then when the alligators grow up, kill them and sell their hides and meats. It's like a whole little ecosystem on a farm!

Kohl read an article on alligator production in January 2000. His wife, Kelly, gave him a pair of baby alligators the next Valentine's Day. "They came in a Valentine Styrofoam box," Kohl said.

Thanks Aaron for the link. It's been an unusually boring day.

I'll try to make this as simple as it gets: any and all information on this site reflects my thoughts and my thoughts alone. They should never be construed as the thoughts or opinions or stances of anyone but me. The list of people who are "not me" includes my employers, family, friends, pets, neighbors, subcontractors, soulmates, ex-girlfriends, employees of Coca Cola, and one very funny smelling guy in eastern Rochester, NY, among others.

Sometimes, the opinions expressed on my site aren't even my actual opinions. As a firm believer in "you don't truly understand something until you can argue it from either side of the fence" I might post a viewpoint that isn't mine just so I can practice a different side of the argument. Or to get someone else to defend a point with which I agree.

Any questions about something I've said? Contact me.

Do you enjoy being ripped off? Have $10 you absolutely have no better use for (like, contributing to your favorite Coke addict/blogger named Erik?). If so, pick up a copy of MacMaid, new overpricedware that lets you clean up your desktop!

Of course, if you want to do it free…

property fileExts : {"txt", "html"}
property moveToLocs : {"Gaia:Users:iacas:Documents:", "Gaia:Users:iacas:Sites:"}

tell application "Finder"
    set counter to 1
    repeat with ext in fileExts
        move (items of folder (path to desktop folder as string) ¬
            whose name ends with ext) to folder (item counter of moveToLocs)
        set counter to counter + 1
    end repeat
end tell