2 years ago, in Scotland, I slacked off celebrating Halloween because I felt it stupid to ‘celebrate’ an American tradition in a non-American country… Oh how arrogant and stupid I was.
Monthly Archive for October, 2004
Holy Jesus Christ on a pogostick. I can’t wait to get 4 online and get this ugly and by now rotten and slightly soggy and sorry looking code-mess out of my face. Now if only I could stop time.
So I’m not answering your mail just now, because I have a lot of work (the kind I’m paid for) I need to do, and between sleeping, an hour with Rikke each night and the bus ride to and from work, there isn’t a lot of time left.
I’m also not writing any interesting things just now, for the same reason. That, and whatever time I do have left over, I spend on playing around with 4. Far from being a ‘revolution’, it’ll be more of an effort in making BB feel homey again, and in alleviating the fundamental problems that the current design has in structuring the site and the information on it.
In other words: Don’t expect too much ;)
Meanwhile, I’ll change the header and colors around so as to not tire too much of them. Don’t let this confuse you, 4 isn’t done until you see Freya once again gracing the header.
Looks like I won’t be putting down money on iTMS from today anyway. Plenty of new European outlet’s, just not in Scandinavia. Fuck. And color me amazed, they did put out a color iPod Photo. I wouldn’t have put my money on that happening, that’s for sure. Especially since they only just updated to 4G. The photo function is pretty cool I suppose, but the coolest thing about the iPod Photo, is definitely that it shows you the album cover of the currently playing track! With me being the anal sucker I am, all the albums in our 80 something GB music collection have had their covers painstackingly added, and I would just love to have this feature.
But with my 3G iPod being merely 9 months old, I doubt I’ll be fronting the money for a new model any time soon…
I am growing busier and busier, and it would seem that by some degree of irony, the days are getting shorter and shorter. In fact, I have never felt as out of time as I do now. A pity too, as I have never had such a lust for indulging in different endeavors as I do now. So to retain my sanity, I’ve had to make a few prioritization’s in regards to what my day is spent on. These may or may not affect you.
In an effort to truly celebrate the release of Firefox 1.0 next month, the Mozilla organization is taking out a full page ad in the New York Times. Their initial goal was to have 2500 people donate $30 in 10 days, to raise the money that such an ad costs.
It’s on day two, and over 2800 people have already donated, some with a lot more than $30 I’d wager. Being A Champion of the Internet, I decided to put my money where my mouth was. Between this and my super-sized t-shirt (which Rikke uses as a nightgown… Yes, I do realize how lucky I am!), I feel pretty good about this:
Would you please take a closer look at OS X soon? Work a little with the Camino guys if you have to. I think it’s worth considering that while Windows may hold a considerably larger market share, the OS X crowd are notoriously Internet minded…
Now I dont’ have my panties in a bunch on this one, there are luckily plenty of good browsers on OS X, but at least this gives me a place to collect the many small annoyancy issues. So just to sum up:
- Doesn’t respect the dock. When new windows are opened, their bottom will drop underneath the dock, unlike for instance Safari.
- Hidden window still shows up in Exposé!
- No native widgets.
- Cmd-M doesn’t minimize, but starts a new mail.
- Input field keyboard navigation isn’t true to OS X.
- Ctrl-Tab to change tabs is nice and all, but on OS X you’d be better off with the Safari standard: Cmd-Shift-Arrow, or simply Cmd-Arrow, like Adium
- Doesn’t use proper OS X dialoges (sheets), relying instead on Windows like independent windows.
- Close button should be on each tab, not at the end of the tab row… It’s confusing and prone to error.
Either way, I’ll have to find a place that carries The New York Times here in Copenhagen so that I can get a look at that ad myself. Pin it on my office wall, right next to this.
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