Things are getting ever-nearer with FlexTime, but as is the case with every project of relative complexity, the number of niggling details expands in proportion to the number of days of development ostensibly remaining. Today I spent a lot longer than I wish I had working on a confounding bug report with my NSToolbar implementation: […]

One of the rumors buzzing around the internet this past week is that Microsoft is working on a tough competitor to the iPod. Oooh! Shiver me timbers! The chances of Microsoft taking Apple down in the portable music arena are so miniscule that even John C. Dvorak thinks it’s impossible. I heard him say so […]

I have been happily using WordPress as the infrastructure for this blog since its inception, almost one year ago. Since I’m perhaps slightly geekier than than the average WordPress customer, I have been wanting to get to know the sources a bit better and possibly make my own tweaks or write plugins to suit my […]

I have never gotten very good at any of the popular shell scripting languages. Over the years, I’ve dabbled in Bourne sh scripts, Perl, awk, and sed. I was never one of those magical guys who could make anything happen in a few seconds. But I’ve always wanted that to change. I’ve decided to learn […]