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.
It’s been some time since I last wrote in you, for that I am sorry, but I seem to be so busy with various other things. You’ll be happy to know, that one of these things is a new cover for your now half-dingy pages (sorry, but it’s true…).
Anyway, today I managed to finally catch up to an inbox crowded with week old mails. I sure hope I managed to get around everyone who was kind enough to write me, even if I did use short to-the-point sentences.
Yesterday I started playing Fable. It’s looking good so far I think. Though some people have critiqued it for not being what Peter said it would be. My only suggestion is that they try developing games themselves, that would be the end of that.
I expect to finish my copy of If Chins Could Kill tomorrow on the bus. Great book by the way, Bruce Campbell is a really honest guy.
About the bus; I biked to work the entire summer, but I must confess that I enjoy taking the bus, since it allows me to read for about an hour a day. Something which I otherwise never seem to be able to find the time to do. But of course, if I never take the time, how can I have it?
Another book I recently finished, was The Humane Interface, written by the guy who designed the original Mac. I borrowed it from Brian. What an eye opener! This book should really be mandatory for any kind of interface designer. Finally I got my hatred for the caps lock key and the behavior of the alt key in Windows justified. Moded interfaces are a grave injustice to human kind!
Saw Ladykillers and ate flapjacks / pancakes yesterday. The pancakes were better then the movie. Though it wasn’t bad. Nor particularly good… Not the best Coen movie out there, but worth your time I think.
I borrowed Troll and Troll 2 from Thor, with a promise of absolutely horrible waste of time and possible outbreak of cholera.
That’s all for now. Have fun.
Having drawn on Brian’s PHP expertice, Dunstan’s Time Since plugin, which I adapted for WordPress a little while ago, is now finally 1.0 (having been beta until now).
So the other day, I read a small quip about a French version of Halo being leaked onto the net. And I’m not sure how to relate to that… I mean, on one hand it’s no surprise. Ever since I was ye tall (motions with hand), games have been leaked this way and that. It’s common knowledge that anything and everything will be cracked and warezed, it’s only a matter of time.
But 30 full days before the game is released? It would break my heart. Continue reading ‘Halo 2 Leaked’
Christopher Reeve died yesterday, age 52. Superman is dead. Long live Superman.
Yesterday, Rikke and I took a trip to a wildlife preserve of a kind; Dyrehaven. Here’s a taste of the photos we took out there. As soon as I get the time (these were quickly adjusted and uploaded literally minutes before I fell asleep yesterday), I’ll see if I can’t get a photo of one of the deer bulls up.