January 2011
13 posts
“Pretty is as crazy does…”
“…and just to see motion was beautiful.” This is about where I am with 3D right...”
– lonelysandwich
This is how I feel about it, as I build my Frankenstein 3D camera. Every time I get converging images, and can see into the image I am astounded.
And slowly I, and everyone else who is trying to make sense of this extra “Dee” business are slowly discovering the rules....
Dating Acronyms We Never See...
SAMSFJ: Single Asian Male Seeks Female Jerk
RIP iWeb...
Nobody seems to be mentioning this, but iWeb isn’t available on Apple’s new Mac App Store. All the other iLife apps are, but not iWeb. They hadn’t updated it in a while, but this seems like it could be the final nail in the coffin for plucky little iWeb.
It is a shame because iWeb was the easiest way for a mere mortal to make a simple little website for themselves. I have...
Dear Frontier Communications...
The following is a message I sent to Frontier Communications (who are my internet provider) via their website, regarding my experiences trying to pay my bill today. The only editing I have done to it is to fix a spelling mistake I did not catch the first time and to break things out into separate lines:
I just paid my bill and wanted to point out several flaws in you current system:
1) this...
Dear Apple...
Dear Apple,
It is well past time to drag Objective-C/Frameworks/Xcode into the mid-1990s. There is no need for:
separate header files
separate @interface and @implementation sections
overly-long keywords (getAt: is actually clearer than getObjectAt:
refactoring tools that are — at best — toys
the most brain-dead keyword completion I have ever seen
Back in the late 80s/early 90s...