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Tag Archives: Raves
The Working Man's Typeface
From Monday’s Colbert Report. You’ve got to be really secure in your audience to make a typography joke: The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cOperation Humble KanyeColbert at ChristmasColbert Christmas DVDGreen ScreenBill O’Reilly Interview
Not my usual poison…
There aren’t a lot of items in Raves that I would classify as haunting and terrifying, but this is an exception.1 I only knew one of my grandmothers, and only after she was slipping into dementia,2 so this has something … Continue reading
Vice
I like to think I don’t have many of them, but this is one of them; you just don’t get the same thing from those places where the biggest thing on the sign out front is a dollar sign. Oh, … Continue reading
My New Favorite Text Editor
I know there are periods where I change my favorite text editor as often as most people change their underwear, but still. I like their take on tabbed editing (including what happens when you give their command-line script a list … Continue reading
Unsightly build-up
I just spent some time reading and purging the vast assortment of news items I’d stacked up in NetNewsWire tabs. This included a bunch of MacCentral items on CS2 and FCP5 et al, but in general was just a lot … Continue reading
KiWTF?
More and more, I’m seeing the Ki, Mi, etc. set of unit prefixes used, but with little mention of any sort of uniform interpretation of them. The question, if you don’t know, is about what these prefixes mean. In the … Continue reading
Public Service Announcement
I just wanted to say that Erwin is a fine, upstanding person, in spite of any claims I might have made to the contrary. Or might continue to make. On an ongoing basis. In IMs I send directly to him.
Horizontal
One of my (few) Raves about the new Firefox, now that I’ve switched back, involved horizontal scrolling. Specifically, they bound it to something silly — history forward and history back. What can I say; install an alternate trackpad driver and … Continue reading
“The little things”
I haven’t checked, but this might be the first “Rave”. I wonder if I ever said I want to be a curmudgeon when I grow up. Oh, nevermind — I’m sure I did. Probably in the last couple of years. … Continue reading
Warm Fuzzy Feeling
I don’t know what it is. Child-like faith? Some twisted form of optimism rooted in minor failure? Whatever it is, I always get this feeling that there’s still hope for the world when someone makes an announcement and vastly underestimates … Continue reading