Don’t mess with Texas

Microsoft bullies people into paying large contracts or face audits. Houston gives MS the finger. MS comes in at last minute whining they were not part of the bidding process. Bidding process? You expect to bully people and then negotiate? haha.

Yao Ming - 1, Gates - 0

If you have ever had the chance to experience the wonderment of Cliff Johnson, be it through his games (Fool’s Errand, 3 in Three, etc) or as a friend (as I have) you will be happy, no, elated to know that he is creating a new game!

A Fool and his Money is set to ship on Halloween!

Preorder now and end up in the Compendium of True Believers, not to mention show Cliff just how long overdue this has been!

Kevin Mitnick is back on the net. Welcome back!

He did his time - now he has a chance to help the net in a good way.

This story is pretty interesting - those of you who use Quark, comments please?

One of the great things about exploring who I am, what I feel and not being made to feel ashamed for my thoughts is that I am expressing myself more and getting some pretty interesting, useful and often funny feedback.

On geekculture.com, I posted in reply to a thread titled “sappy sappy romance” which was asking about what romance is, is it dead, etc. So I thought for a second about literally trying to explain how I feel romantically, then I decided to just write whatever popped into my mind:

“Her silhouette swept through my mind as I stood at the restaurant door, thinking I was about to see her once again. Would she be in black, or red? Would her heart be beating as mine is now? Would she smile? Would she flutter as I kiss the back of her hand? Palms sweating, I turn the corner around the oak partition, the carved flowers reminding me of things sweet, of her. I work my way through the restaurant, knowing where she will be, walking tall, wanting her to see how happy I am to see her. There she is! The little black dress, and oh my lord, the black choker. Her lips glisten as she looks up at me, a smile broadens across her face. I take her hand, kiss it and I swear she swoons just a little. I sit and during the most amazing meal of our lives we converse, tease, play footsies and anticipate the rest of the weekend. As we finish dessert, the wonderful of the meal is but a pale comparison to her intelligence, her beauty, her love of life and how much better a person she makes me be. I look into her eyes, take her hands and say to her, ‘Happy 28th anniversary, my love’”

One of the responses was “Do you have a younger brother?”

ROFL! Damn, always some hurdle……..

After looking at my site with Safari, my web counter was wrong (visually and numerically)

Today I spent some time looking into this and found that the pipes (vertical bars) my ISP was generating for the IMG tag are not valid inside of a URI. A few hours later of dorking around with other scripts, I finally did the simple thing and tried replacing the pipes with ampersands.

Now, the counter is correct! Of course it is off by a few hundred, due to the improper counter, which I cannot change (the count files are kept out of my domain) but alas, the world is good again.

In this kbase note, Apple recognizes the kernel panic, and I was right, it is related to ATI!

Damn ATI - It is obvious that Steve uses nVidia based Macs!

A friend was sending me full sized photos, and I was trying to explain how to use Graphic Converter to scale, but don’t save, be sure to save as, on the desktop, then drag into mail, blah blah blah. Recipe for disaster heh.

Then I saw iPhoto has a Share via Mail function, which is simple, but pretty damned near has to be. It works well, does the scaling and even stores the scaled folders in /tmp

Just be sure to send the email before rebooting, or the scaled attachments will be deleted.

SBC Communications sent this letter to protect it’s “links on left side of page that navigate within frames” patent violation error.

What a crock!

I am glad I moved my links to the top. Sheesh.

What is next people???

I’ve made the switch to Safari

Why? Surprised me. I hate the Mozilla/Chimera history. I have never understood that, and Safari keeps a very good history, searchable, etc.

Also, now that Chimera supports the ability for a site to not have Chimera cache a password (which I understand why they had to do it, or risk being blocked by banks) I switched.

I still want Tabs, or something like that. Sometimes, multiple windows just suck.

Sometimes you have to wonder why you have the people in your life you do, or maybe not enough of them. Why you spend so much time alone, why you feel so selfish, why you don’t care enough, when you do but when it comes time to show you, you retract.

Sometimes you wonder why you can’t find that person that “gets” you, that wants to know more about you, finds you interesting.

Sometimes you wonder why people would rather talk to their ex on the phone than with you, or be somewhere else. You wonder if you smell, not physically, but as a person, wreaking of bad intentions, of selfish attitudes.

Then you wonder why your friends tell you to stop the self pity, when all you are trying to do is understand why you feel this way, when these emotions are inside of you and you need to explore them, but when you do, when you open up, you are slapped on the wrist for being who you are.

Then you wonder why you have to spend another Saturday night alone, why you don’t have the courage to go out by yourself and meet people. You wonder why it is you are more comfortable at home chatting or watching TV.

You wonder why you have this need of closeness, to be inside someone’s soul, to feel their touch, not sleep with them, but just touch. And you want someone to touch you, to help you grow, to give a flying leap.

Then you worry that if you say too much to someone, they might do these things because you asked for it. Then you wonder if that is then a real gift, like someone who buys you a Christmas gift off your website, vs. that person that surprises you with something you never expected because they listened, cared and gave a flying leap.

Then you just want to retract and say “bah!” and scew it all. But that puts you right back into the hole of being alone on Saturday night.

So then you just ramble on your blog and see how you feel afterwards.

I called Apple on Wednesday about the kernel panics that Keynote was triggering.

They had me delete two plists:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Keynote.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Keynote.plist

I am not sure if this is a real solution, but I have not had once since doing this.

Dear Safariers,

I would like to be able to open a folder from the Bookmarks menu (either pane) into it’s own separate window. I find this useful for arranging lots and lots of bookmarks that are in a very deep hierarchy.

I recently was reintroduced to Runtime Revolution at MacWorld, and a little twinge of nostalgia from my Voyager days hit me. I had this feeling of comfort, of knowing where I belonged for a while, and decided to look into this product again.

So I joined their development mailing list and introduced myself with some of my history. I was blessed with several responses, one of which I will quote:

Steven W. Riggins wrote: > I am not a revolution user yet, but I plan to change that soon. I’m > a firm believer in community, so I thought I would introduce myself. > > My name is Steve Riggins and I am a Macintosh Software Geek. And if I recall correctly from the ol’ LA Mac User Group meetings, you even have the propeller beanie to prove it. For those of you who don’t know Steve, he was writing killer externals back when I was just cutting my teeth on HyperCard in the ’80s. It’s great to see you on this list, Steve. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with Revolution….

Wow, that was really nice! I hope this leads somewhere. I need work, I want it to be interesting and something I can be passionate about once again.

We’ll see!

As I surf the jungles of the world, I find myself needing two things my current host is not supplying.

First off, and most importantly, is Keychain passwords. Not just realm passwords, but forms as well. Chimera does this wonderfully and I was told at MacWorld Expo that Apple is considering this as well. I surely hope so, because I doubt I’ll take on a new Safari as long as Chimera is the only browser making my life easier.

Secondly is tabs. I know, some people love them, some people hate them. I sure hope they don’t listen to the drawer based approaches listed on the Chimera mailing list.

I love being able to select one bookmark and suddenly have one window with 6 tabs covering all of my developer pages. click click and I am jumping around much documentation while I code. That makes my life easier!

Safari looks great, I love Dave Hyatt’s blog, open source and Apple commitment. As soon as Safari supports keychain passwords, I’ll probably switch, and anxiously await tabs.

I’ve created an RSS feed for just my Safari notes, in case Dave Hyatt gives a crap.

If you’d like to follow just my Safari notes using any RSS newsreader, simply subscribe to:

http://www.geeksrus.com/safari.rdf

I bought Keynote from Apple today. What a great app!

Click on the resume link at the top of this page to see a movie I made with Keynote.

One issue is huge though - Keynote seems to cause Kernel Panics frequently while playing presentations. You can follow others with this problem here

I just had my first Jaguar Kernel Panic. I think it is related to QuickTime 6.1. I had double clicked a movie my brother sent me. The QuickTime Player launched, but the frame didn’t fully draw.

I could not force quit the player and as soon as I lauched another application that used QuickTime, I received the kernel panic screen (telling me I needed to shut off my computer)

I will keep an eye on it and see if I can track down the true source. I hope it does not happen again

I really like the Safari bookmark manager. I like having seperate bookmarks for my menu, my bookmark bar and then the manager itself.

I like how it pulls in all URLs from my Address book - Finally!

Very nicely done!

(now just add those tabbed bookmarks and form passwords on keychains)

Want to keep a tab on daily Safari development?

Read Dave Hyatt’s blog