http://blog.verselogic.net The personal blog of Alan J Castonguay. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:46:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a silly waste of time I thought of while looking at my browser history. I found myself bringing up certain websites by clicking in the address/awesome bar, pressing a single letter, and hitting enter. Things need to be checked pretty consistently to get that sort of emergent behavior. So, ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/browser-history-abc/ Safari 4.0.2 (4530.19) is getting weirder. This is running on Tiger (10.4.11). The New Tab, New Window, and Quit Safari menu items are all greyed out or disabled. The hotkeys for new window or new tab do nothing. The Safari window disappears when I invoke Expose's All Windows or Application Windows. Attempting ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/safari-forgets-to-be-an-application/ Google's search results normally flag suspicious websites, and direct their urls to a Google-powered "Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!" page. Today, January 31st, this is broken. It appears that ALL search results on google.ca are being flagged as such, and thus no search results directly link to ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/google-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/ Apple's Frontrow provides for ability to select and play arbitrary video files, usually from the ~/Movies/ directory. I take issue with the file browser user interface. Given a series of Movies, the interface works quite well. It obvious that this was the experience it was polished for. However, given a directory with ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/frontrow-filename-truncated/ Shannon and I are running out ((Or have run out a long time ago, it could be argued, considering the number of books stacked sideways on top of it, or on the floor.)) of space on our primary bookshelf. It contains 160 volumes, mostly science fiction. We are engaging a non-profit ((Which ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/bookshelf-design/ Children are taught very little with respect to their approach to the internet, which is probably the crux of another problem. One, I argue, that is more significant. First and foremost, if they are taught anything at all, it's a very shallow "don't tell anyone anything personal about yourself" mentality. If ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/who-will-prepare-our-kids-for-the-realities-of-the-internet/ I just upgraded to from Tiger (10.4.10) to Leopard (10.5.5), and found the behavior of keyboard+click combinations in Mail.app to have changed, in quite an annoying manner. I used to use the following techniques in Tiger's Mail.app to sort large volumes of mail, usually when marking as spam. Scenario 1 Given a set ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/shift-click-behavior-in-leopard-mailapp/ Tom Smith has torn something in his leg climbing up onto the stage at the Ark in Ann Arbor. As a result, this filker is in the hospital. Being a poor starving artist filker, he could really use a little help with the medical bills. In return for a donation of ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/tom-smith-filk-fund-raiser/ I know this is old news, coming from April 2007, but it has been bugging me all year. How the hell does a 30 year old woman pretend to be a 14 year old boy, move in with a 14 year old girl, be in a relationship for a year, have ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/girl-had-suspected-boyfriend-was-woman/ I've been looking for AMV ideas outside of drama, tending toward fun-pop-action, or romance. If I'm going to go with romance, it should be between cute girls who don't know how to express themselves. I'm sure that Kona-chan would approve. Did you ever think of me As your best friend Did I ever ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/hooverphonic-eden/