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Bookie 1.1 is now available. This free update adds support for Chimera, Omn, and Mozilla, adding on to the previous Safari support. Heck, the only browser we don't really support at this point is Internet Explorer. And iCab. And Opera. And Lynx. And CyberDog. No wait, we support the last one… 🙂

The next challenge may be to figure out how to put a menu item "open all bookmarks" that opens all the bookmarks from that particular submenu. There's two approaches, as always: one is elegant and the other uses "brute force." The problem is that I'm not sure there is an elegant solution to get the represented objects of all other menu items within the same level as the chosen item. Okay, that's enough Cocoa mini-ranting for now. Go grab Bookie, enjoy.

And while I'm on the subject of video games (see previous rant about how lame Sega and EA are being towards the GameCube), let me wonder aloud just when the heck I'm going to get to play Mario Kart on my GameCube.

Other games I am anticipating include:

• Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Mario Kart
• Sports games (soccer, hockey, football, baseball, Tony Hawk, etc.)
• Pikmin 2
• Mario Tennis
• Mario Golf

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It's weird being PowerBook-less. I never used the PB much, but just as I intend to go watch Boston Public while writing a longer blog entry about Mario Kart, I realize I can't. The guy I sold it to got it today. Yay for him! Now, where in the heck is my 12", Apple? C'mon… And I wonder how much of a discount I'll get off the $1695 it's going to cost me to renew my ADC membership + WWDC ticket?

Sez Sega:

Sega of America today confirmed that it is pulling the entire Sega Sports lineup of games from Nintendo GameCube. The company said that it would continue to deliver high-quality 'entertainment' titles like Sonic the Hedgehog for the console.

So what's that fricking leave me with? EA? Hey Sega: not got enough balls to go up against EA? Sonic? Fuck Sonic. Heaven forbid we have a choice what sports game(s) we have to play. Say hello to the EA monopoly. >:-o

$77.70 later, my two vehicles are now legally registered through March, 2004. I rode one of my vehicles - my scooter - to the tax collector's office just before noon to pay the fees. It was literally running on fumes - I haven't filled it up in nearly three months - and I barely made it to the gas station. In fact, I conked out a few times on the way there. It's 1/4 mile from my apartment.

There's something wholly satisfying about giving the gas attendant $2, filling up your vehicle with the highest quality gas, and having to go back in and get your change. The scooter gets over 100 MPG, and I use it frequently for short shopping trips, trips to the bank, the video store, etc. It holds 2 gallons, but that's optimistic at best. However, I routinely travel 125-150 miles between refills. $1.70 refills, that is.

Matt and I were IMing today regarding Apple's blatant disregard for its own UI lately. Matt's got a further post up here, called "Death of a Dogcow," in which he lists three primary flaws and many other smaller ones. Let's investigate a bit more.

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Benjamin Curtis, "the Dell Dude," has been busted for possession of the Mary Jane. For carrying the fuzzy leaf. For transporting the heavenly hemp. Can you tell how little I know about marijuana?

Ellen Feiss was just on Benedryl. This guy, well… I guess he needed to be tripping to actually convince himself that a Dell was worth pitching. Let's hope he gets a cell mate named "Bubba" too. (Possession of marijuana is just a misdemeanor, I'm told. Jail time is unlikely. Bummer.)

Seen on the back of a GMC Safari today while driving back from Einstein Bagels:

misc.kids : YMMV :–)

Watched Minority Report today. Found it rather boring. The few little plot twists were all saved for the end, and frankly, if you think you're going to kill someone, and you saw yourself do it, and you were once grabbed by the guy trying to kill himself, wouldn't you stand further away and protect the gun? Stupid. I hate lame crap like that.

On the bright side, the TV movie "War Stories" with Jeff Goldblum was actually pretty damn good. I enjoyed it, and I'll let them slide on taking West Wing off the air one week to show it.

A few weeks ago I came across a few articles discussing females in programming, software development, or computing and technology in general. I haven't had the time, or really, the thoughts, to blow that into a full-fledged entry, so I'm going to do a bit of a link dump here with a bit of my own commentary…

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There's something ironic about 30 naked women spelling out "no bush." Oh, that bush. Gotcha. From a story on Yahoo.

Look at a Playboy from ten years ago, and look at one now. Look at the decreasing amount of pubic hair on "today's woman" versus "the one of yesterdecade." The benefits of going hairless or at least trimming are plentifold (is that a word?): greater sensitivity, less irritation (though depending on the hair removal method, perhaps not), a "cleaner" and thus "sexier" appearance, and so on.

It's been the topic of a Sex and the City, I think. It's obviously one of the more intimate things a woman can do. They have bikini waxes, they go to gynecologists… and yet guys still make jokes when they're asked to turn their head to the side and cough.

Any other thoughts or ideas I have on the subject are just a bit too personal to post here. But I couldn't resist making the joke. I mean, c'mon… 30 naked women spelling out "no bush"? In snow? Tee hee hee.

I walked over to Gabe's today to drop off my rock climbing harness so that he could do some comparison shopping. I saw a woman walking across the thought occurred to me that she was an athletic woman. I even caught myself thinking, not terribly seriously, "25% chance she's a butch." Why?

Mostly because she hopped over a corner of grass. In other words, dainty women don't hop over a corner of grass at sidewalk intersections. As I thought about it more, and more of the women I know well, and how they walk, it struck me that a woman's walk may be the single best indicator of her personality type.

I'll reflect more on this in the coming days. If nothing else, it serves as a great reason to stare at more women's legs and asses. 😀

I've often said that geeks make the best lovers (just be sure to ask at a time other than "THE NEW QUAKE IS OUT! LAN PARTY!"). After all, they've often got no choice: please the gal or guy they've got at that moment, or go another decade or so without the chance to try again.

That in mind, kasia has created an interesting shirt and wishes thinkgeek.com would sell it. Perhaps they will. Like her, I'd buy 10. Y'know, for my friends. The ones who aren't getting any action. Y'know, like that dirty uncle Jeff (that link should clue you in as to why…). O:-)

This seems like something Microsoft would be up for. Does Liechtenstein offer a Rent-to-Own option?

Adam posts a story about an Apple Store employee in North Carolina who was fired for ostensibly accidentally posting screenshots of internal tools to his personal, public Web site. While I in no way believe that he was in the right to do so, and while I in no way believe that Apple was anything less than fair and just in firing him for doing so, I do believe that PBZone could have applied a little decency and told the gent that perhaps he was making a mistake.

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