Author Archives: Josh

Checking out Typinator

By Josh | Published: October 25, 2009
I know MacHeist was a lot of months ago, and I therefore could have tried it out months ago, but oh well. I’m trying it out now, and the first thing I did was search the Character Viewer for characters I might want to use, but for one reason or another wouldn’t know how to [...]
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Snow Leopard

By Josh | Published: September 2, 2009
So, Erwin posted his first impressions list, which reminded me that I’ve done one of my own from time to time, so here goes. I didn’t do a regular upgrade, and even then I don’t really remember how long it took last time,1 so I have no idea if it installed any faster. DiskWarrior seemed [...]
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On Google Wave…sort of…

By Josh | Published: June 6, 2009
I may have had a bit of a revelation reading this Daring Fireball post: Facebook is a good counter-example of a conceptually complex communication system that is very popular. My pessimism/skepticism regarding Wave is probably biased by my own strong preference for conceptual simplicity; I have not and don’t intend to sign up for [...]
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Spring Cleaning

By Josh | Published: May 12, 2009
Lately I’ve been spending some time at work digging through all the crap I’ve got laying around. Here’s a conversation related to this: Me Do you still have this thing? (Hands over a driver CD) Boss Sure. (Tries to hand me the corresponding device) Me I’m not looking for the device, I’m trying to get rid of the CD.
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Changes

By Josh | Published: March 28, 2009
I’ve been working on a major overhaul of my weblog for the last couple of months. Among other things, this post serves to (hopefully) stave off going through this again for as long as possible. Background When I had the first mostly-complete draft of this post put together, I thought I had a pretty good idea [...]
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Last Night's Daily Show

By Josh | Published: March 13, 2009
If you didn’t watch last night’s daily show you really should — the interview with Jim Cramer is great.
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Stand-Up

By Josh | Published: January 19, 2009
Here’s a couple excerpts from the Stand-Up wishlist on my TiVo. Some of the stuff it finds is laughing so hard tears are running down my face funny, and some of it is just awful. Lins and I both loved this guy. First, he explains how, exactly, we know elvis is dead: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links [...]
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DHH is getting soft in his old age…

By Josh | Published: December 24, 2008
David Heinemeier Hansson: So kumbaja motherfuckers and merry christmas!
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The Working Man's Typeface

By Josh | Published: December 4, 2008
From Monday’s Colbert Report. You’ve got to be really secure in your audience to make a typography joke: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cOperation Humble KanyeColbert at ChristmasColbert Christmas DVDGreen ScreenBill O’Reilly Interview
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Impressions

By Josh | Published: November 26, 2008
Once I really started trying to catch up, it look less than a day. Here are a few observations I made along the way: Progressive lack of sleep1 combined with jetlag does not seem to help this process. The day that it took me only a small part of was Monday. I’ve got quite a few feeds [...]
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