Archive for the 'Technology' Category

C Is The New Assembly

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

John Gruber was recently featured for a second time on Dan Benjamin’s instantly-awesome Hivelogic Podcast. I’m glad that Jesper heard and was intrigued by some of the same comments I was, because he reminded me that I wanted to comment on a subtle but worth-repeating impression that I took away. The comments are those pertaining […]

Getting Things Done

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

OK … I mean this in the nicest possible way, because I have also considered (and may someday pursue!) writing my own ToDo-type application. But I’d like to offer my revision on a popular joke from academia… Those who can, do Those who can’t do, write ToDo apps. Those who can’t write ToDo apps … […]

Mail Smart Folders

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Maybe this should be filed under “No Duh” but it’s taken me this long to figure out that Mail’s smart folders might actually save my life. For the past year or so, I’ve adopted the “save everything” approach, ala gmail, except on my Mac. So I have this huge “Received Mail” archive that actually, for […]

OMG BBEdit HTML Code Folding

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

I’m doing some modest revision to my web site, when I notice one of those stupid HTML glitches where you’re just positive you must have forgotten to close a tag or something. Thanks to the generally forgiving nature of most web browsers, the page looks more or less OK, except that some table column is […]