the lake

joana has a book out, the tragic story of the dead insects. wow.

p.s. we had lunch today and you didn't tell me about this?

'cause, you know, an excellent 4-cd release wasn't enough :)

"it's just a phone"

damn, did i pick the wrong week to go to pt...

:>

ah, where would we be without our disclaimers, eh?

the guy next to me in the tube this morning was sleeping over some notes on "database tools". i could glimpse a box and a stick figure, and impact of object orientation: logical units of information.

i miss university.

amazing talk by clay shirky on what we're doing and, more importantly, what we could be doing with our free time (via the usual suspects - i haven't actually checked kottke's but i'm sure it'll pop up there too :)

meet mixwit (via andy baio).

i'd like to be able to add a song if i can't find it online (yes, yes, i understand the legal games), but other than that it's perfect.

in the future the 'psychic arts' will be put to practical use.

i imagine john gruber going about his life, having a snack, playing with the kid, reading the news; occasionally pausing to fire up ical and set an alarm 5 years down the road: the most patient guy on earth.

i never understood all the fuss about .mac, and a few months ago signed up, mainly because of sync'ing, i couldn't care less about web space or a retarded webmail, and i figured that, yes, they might have capacity problems on those services or use some retarded solution, but surely sync'ing should just work.

let's just say i'd like some quality time alone with .mac's product manager.

you though this was bad? sucker.

p.s. didn't icann just grant these sob's a perpetual monopoly? is no one getting fired? oh, wait...

a^Wthe greatest feature of mobile safari is that when you double-tap a div, it will resize it to fill the whole display, width-wise. i find this much better than pinching to zoom in and then panning around.

this is great for reading the traditional 3-column layout sites that are the great majority these days: just double tap the content div, and you're presented with a nice, comfortably-sized version of it. as an added bonus, no more pesky ads in your field of view.

alas, most sites now come ready with a "mobile version" of sorts, which is mostly a half-assed attempt at being sorry for people who don't have a 24" display available at all times (i'm mostly whining about wordpress, yes). and the problem with this improvement is that it was designed for those displays found in the mobile phones of yesteryear, like the n95 or the k850i. we get a fluid div, which sucks in mobile safari, as it will fill the available width with as much text as possible in the font size specified in the half-assed stylesheet. and it will be small and unreadable, like all the mobile internet.

so please ignore mobile safari. it's not a brain-dead browser for your brain-dead publishing system, it is a fully-featured web browser that will cope even with your brain-dead fully-featured template.

i was a beatles guy, never liked the stones that much other than angie and a couple more (sympathy for the devil, yada yada...). but if you're into rock'n'roll, there's no way around keith richards.

(via kottke)

and by that i mean freetards that behave like microsoft:

"love the hardware, but the os sucks"

this usually means one of three things:

• i can't afford a mac. computers should be subsidised.


• i don't have a real job and i can spend all my days installing window managers and fiddling with mime type associations. oh, and i confuse window managers with operating systems.


• i've never looked at a single line of darwin or read anything about its design. come to think of it, the same is true for linux. i'm 31337.

fortunately these morons will invariably end up working for microsoft or the fsf, where they can do no harm.

that's from codeweavers, circa 2002, lecturing me from the moral high ground that freetards think is theirs naturally.
and unless someone explains to me why running wow or eve on wine is better than running the native os x versions*, I'd say john gruber started posting press releases without even reading them.

* yes, I know that eve is running on top of cedega, shove it

not only this, but also i now have to click somewhere in the window to get "focus" after opening the page (google apps for your domain, but i don't remember it being any different from gmail, as joa~o implies) so it will catch the 'c' keystroke. whereas before i just cmd-tab'ed to safari, hit cmd-1 and c, now i'm forced to use the mouse, as a workaround for a bug.

well, at least we now have chat.

5 or 6 years after the imac, and looking like something i would have loved in the 80s.

thank you, kake.

after all, she's making everything from the finished songs to the individual tracks, music sheets and cover art available online, for free, in high quality and with no drm.

thank you.