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All too often, I could lump myself into this group. Men, that article surmises, are turning into pussies. Frankly, I'm comfortable with myself, and I bond with people very quickly, but a very small percentage of people in the world. Actually, I'd consider it a normal amount; I just have stronger feelings from having learned to trust my gut. I'm open, I'm honest, and I talk about anything and share anything. That's not necessarily what the article talks about, per se, but it's the other side of the same leaf a lot of the time.

My friend Crystal got a hoot out of that link, really, because during our "Naked Weekend" I initiated a "relationship" talk - basically, she was worried that I'd get attached if we fooled around, that sort of thing, and I had to assure her that I would take it to mean nothing more than that we're just a teensy bit closer as friends than we were before. I'm happy to report that's all that's happened. B-)

Two Safari issues that have come to mind lately:

• When I hit reload, the page that I'm staring at should be reloaded, not a URL that may have auto-completed from some random keystrokes in my location bar. This bug drives me mad sometimes!
• The service "shift-cmd-L" to "Open URL in Safari" should attempt to work with any selected text. If I have "nslog.com" selected, it should work - it should not require "http://nslog.com/" to be selected.

I've filed bugs using Safari's Bug Thingy™.

Nice titles is a nifty little "trick" to override the tooltips you sometimes see in browsers with "title" attributes. Thanks to Brad Lauster I've got them (kinda) working in Safari. David Hyatt indicates that they will work in Safari shortly as found at Brad Choate's site.

I originally became interested from inluminent, which links to an article noting my previous problem with weblogs.com timing out.

I've used a transparent PNG as the background image, to get the transparency, but Safari messes up the position of the "tooltip" when you scroll the page. This continues to work in Navigator with the current setup. We'll see what the future holds on this one - I certainly like it - though if Safari supported the little yellow actual "tooltips" I'd be inclined to just ditch this whole "Nice Titles" thing.

Not something I plan to talk about a whole lot, the Blogger/Google thing, because this quote may just sum it up entirely:

Google lives or dies on fresh links - and processing the million or so weblogs will give them an awful lot of fresh links a day. No matter where you host your Blogger based blog, the posting will still go through a machine on Google's network: it'd be easy peasy to scrap each posting for URLs and add them to the spider-now list. Not every link, perhaps, but if a certain number of bloggers link to the same thing in a certain time, Google grabs it. It's a distributed early warning system for Google's spiders. One million monitors just signed on to Google's staff. A bargain for them, whatever the cost.

The rest of the entry can be found here.

I am OS X! Find out what OS you are at this silly little quiz. The first time I took the quiz, I think it told me that I was OS/2. 🙂

I've taken a few quizzes at emode, too, and the results are sometimes interesting. I'm an "adventurous" driver, and a "romantic" kisser, whose inner rock star is Beck. My sense of humor is "sarcasm," and, well, sometimes the results are right on. What can I say?

Out of the blue this evening we learn that Google has bought Blogger. What the hell they're going to do with it is beyond me, but this could be a pretty interesting step towards legitimizing blogging in the minds of many. I wonder if Evan is now a rich man…

I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't need a special day - one that's overcommercialized and frought with greed, not love - to affirm your affection for someone. It should be a daily event. It is for this same reason, roughly, that I don't care for the commercialization of Christmas either. Why should I feel obligated to give someone a gift? I'd rather give them for no reason throughout the year.

Chimera is going to be renamed "Camino"? It is so (preliminally anyway), according to Mike Pinkerton.

Annie sent me this link to cute pictures of puppies. They're all from a fish-eye or wide-angle lens, and they're pretty adorable.

She mentioned yesterday that she might get one (today) fairly out of the blue, and I kind of went into a mini "you're not prepared for a dog! Do some damn research!" tirade. It was rather abbreviated, but also fairly strongly worded. I shouldn't have done it. Whenever new things pop up, I tend to go into "logic mode" instead of just "wow, I'm so excited for you!" mode.

Every post I've made today has generated this error:

Ping 'http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2' failed: HTTP error: 500 read timeout.

MovableType automatically pings weblogs.com. Why it's stopped working today is beyond me. Does anyone have any information?

Says Marc Andreessen in a Wired interview:

Andreeseen: I think it's so funny that Apple comes out with a new browser in 2003. Where were you guys six years ago? I wish them the best, but it's not as if you're about to see Safari go from 0 percent market share to 47 percent.

I think Safari can reasonably easily capture 47% of the Mac OS X browser market share. If he means across platforms, of course not. If he means across all Mac systems, he's still correct. But that's exactly why this is a poor quote: we have no idea what he means.

Survivor: Amazon (I don't know what number this one is&hellip six? seven?) kicked off last night. Nick has some thoughts on it here, to which I want to add. Like Nick, I was prepared to give the women a chance, and fully prepared to rag on the guys for being dumbasses. As it ended up, I was given plenty of chances to rag on both tribes. What follows are the random thoughts (the ones I can remember, anyway) that occurred to me, Gabe, Daria, or Dave throughout the show.

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10.2.4 didn't fix my AppleScript issue: an empty list is returned from this:

property logsFolder : "Gaia:Users:iacas:Library:Application Support:Adium:Users:iacas:Logs:"

set cutoffDate to ( (current date) - (60 * days) )

tell application "Finder"
    delete (files of folder logsFolder whose modification date < cutoffDate)
end tell

A brief retort to the ramblings of Vinay, Matt, and myself was published yesterday (TrackBacks rock). The author seems to feel that "experimentation" is good. I agree! However, the "experimentation" umbrella really can't logically cover the following cases:

• The start/end Ken Burns radio buttons in iMovie
• The metal buttons in iChat
• The use of TIFFs for checkboxes and other standard controls (like Matt discusses re: Keynote
• The "dimmed" or "inactive" appearance of the "Burn" thingy.

In each of those cases, Apple is misappropriating existing controls. That's not experimentation - that's just dangerous. You want a new control, design one that doesn't toy with the expectations of users - old and new - and one that doesn't completely fuck with the HIGs.

Gabe and I went climbing again yesterday. This was now our sixth time, I believe. Our skills are certainly improving. It's interesting how quickly you can improve, though it is early on and I suspect there's a learning curve that's quite shallow at first, then stiffens up. We're now climbing most 5.8 routes without too many problems. I climbed my nemesis of a week ago, a 5.8+ route that has a crag and an overhang (I doubt those are the technical terms).

When I try to make a fist with my lefthand, my ring and middle fingers don't quite curl as much as they should - I feel a stiffness in my mid-forearm. Maybe I overdid it just a little. It's okay, though, I can still type. 🙂