Aug 8, 2002
Golf Digest posted its ranking of America’s golfing CEOs. Sun Microsystems‘ CEO Scott McNealy topped the list with a 0.3 handicap.
The question is, are companies whose CEOs appear prominently in the list a good buy or a bad buy? On the … Read more
Aug 8, 2002
If an RSS feed to which you are subscribed decides to put an HTML form element (eg. SELECT, INPUT, etc.) in an item, the Radio news aggregator will fail badly when you try to delete items:
[Macro error: Can’t coerce the string “nameprfx” into a number because it contains non-numeric characters.]
I learnt this when … Read more
Aug 8, 2002
In true Canadian style the federal government has handed the issue of gay marriage to a committee. Never mind that a Canadian court has “found that the restriction of legal marriage to heterosexuals is unconstitutional” (GAM) or that a majority of … Read more
Aug 7, 2002
Walking by the sales office just now I heard one of our sales guys exclaim, in a jovial voice
“You can’t get any more penetration than that!”
Sometimes, you just don’t want to know.
Aug 7, 2002
Why is it that when I delete a few items in Radio’s news aggregator, a bunch of previously-deleted items suddenly appear and I have to spend a few minutes cleaning them out? What Radio needs is a ‘Check All’ option or something like that so I can uncheck the items I’m interested in reading later. … Read more
I used Mail Act-On for one purpose: to quickly sort my inbox mail into action, hold and archive boxes. Unfortunately, Mail Act-On costs money. Fortunately, those simple actions can be done with Applescript and Quicksilver triggers. You’ll need to add the Scripts directory to Quicksilver’s catalog for this to work. The triggers should be configured … Read more
“Provides a CAPTCHA for Python using the reCAPTCHA service. Does not require any imaging libraries because the CAPTCHA is served directly from reCAPTCHA.” The reCAPTCHA service also helps to digitize books.
This is the future you asked for. Airline passengers in the UK chosen for a revealing full-body scan will need to submit or they will not be allowed to fly. No word on what criteria the security personnel (who I’m sure are sensitive and above reproach) are using to select those who will be scanned. … Read more
A nice rant by Joel Johnson against those with a hate-on for the closed iPad and the “stupid” people who wish to buy them. Best quote: “If you want to walk the walk, you can follow [Richard] Stallman’s lead and do all your computing on a tiny netbook, interfacing with the internet from a text … Read more
Sooner or later I will join the cult of ubiquitous computing; I will probably require Notational Velocity to keep my idea scribbles in order and synchronized for on-the-go. Today is not that day.