It appears that the Democratic leaders have decided to block the permanent ban on taxing internet-access according to Captains Quarters and Congressional Quarterly. The permanent ban appears to have the support of the of the majority of congressmen from both sides of the aisle, but for some reason the leadership won’t let it come [...]
Philippe Mougin:
F-Script is an open-source scripting layer dedicated to Cocoa. If you aren’t using it yet, this is your chance to learn how it can improve your productivity as well as those of the users of your own Cocoa applications. In this article, our goal will be to produce a nice little animation using fancy [...]
A Phoenix Cocoaheads chapter has finally started up! The first topic will be “Beginning Cocoa
Development” and will involve setting up and running Xcode through
learning how to develop in Cocoa. Bring any projects you’ve been
working on and would like to show off!
Date: October 11th, 2007
Time: 7-9pm (we’ll hit a local watering hole after the meeting [...]
Keith Law:
Although the Diamondbacks had the better record and will have home-field advantage, the Rockies had a much better projected record based on runs scored and allowed.
ESPN’s experts need to pull their heads out of their asses. Had a better projected record? The season is over, why don’t we go with [...]
I’m watching the ASU-Washington State game and saw something that confirms we should start treating the players as players and stop pretending they’re students. Ryan Torain, the ASU running back, had listed on his profile card “major: plans to major in sports psychology”. Sounds like a good major and not something that’s a [...]
apple’s antiCAPSLOCK (Via John Rentzsch.):
Unique among the rest of the keys, Caps Lock doesn’t activate immediately upon strike. There’s a very small time window — perhaps a quarter of a second — where if you release the key inside the window, the keystroke is ignored.
But that’s only part of the conspiracy. The Caps Lock [...]
Daniel Jalkut:
I remember using that “Bounce” command in Mail.app a few times many years ago. My intentions were good: to convince spammers that my email doesn’t exist and they shouldn’t bother. But I always sort of wondered whether it was worth it, and whether I would sufficiently fool the sender that my email address no [...]
Don Reisinger:
While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once [...]
I’ve moved my blog to it’s own domain, http://crookedspin.com. Please update your links and feeds. I’m working on getting 301s set up properly so that hopefully do don’t have to do anything and the feed links will update automatically for you.
Update: The site is moved now and redirects set up. [...]
From now through October 1st you can get Cyndicate bundled with EagleFiler for just $55 through Mac News Junkie Bundle. Hopefully everyone reading this already knows about Cyndicate, my feed reader. EagleFiler is a great archiving app from Michael Tsai of C-Command Software. In a nutshell, it gives you the ability to [...]