Yearly Archives: 2008

John Gruber: A Mix of the Technical, the Artful, the Thouthtful, and the Absurd.

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Josh | Comments Off

Why didn’t I think of this? Seriously, how cool would it be to hold a balloon race that consists of Darth Vader, R2-D2, C3PO, the Death Star, a Stormtrooper, and Jabba?

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Josh | Comments Off

Between 10 pm EST and 11 pm EST tonight, the moon will be passing right through Earth’s shadow.

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Josh | Comments Off

I tried this hint and, in spite of others’ success with this solution, I’m having decidedly mixed results. I’m seriously considering going back to the default mode and fewer spaces (for the few cases where app partitioning actually works for … Continue reading →

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Josh | Comments Off

Random tinkering

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Josh

I’ve been messing with my site again, so don’t be shocked the next time you go to the actual web page. The color scheme is almost certainly not final — its just some random set of light-on-dark colors produced by … Continue reading →

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Still Clueless

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Josh

I still don’t get it. Okay, now that I think of it, there are two things I don’t get. First, I was so sure the “Translucent Menu Bar” checkbox would be under “Appearance” that I thought something was wrong when … Continue reading →

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The Final Orientation

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Josh

Maybe if I spent more time obsessing over whatever _iPhone Secrets_ websites I could find and less playing [Burnout Paradise][burnout] I would know this already, but I did notice something new (to me) recently — at least one of the … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmasish!

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Josh

We finally had our big family gift exchange last night — this is actually a major win for Mom. Sure, she failed in her quest to get it into December this year, but we still had it before the first full … Continue reading →

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