Archive for February, 2008

  • After leaving it til the last minute, I’m resurrecting my Wordpress talk for Barcamp. Let’s see if I can manage a working laptop this time! #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-27 (via Twitter)

  • Woken by the earthquake last night, very confused. #
  • Coverflow is what was missing for my photo management on OSX; now I can eschew photo management software and keep them in organised folders. #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-26 (via Twitter)

  • That’s quite neat: if you hold onto an application by it’s top bar then use a Spaces hotkey, you can easily move it between virtual desktops #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-25 (via Twitter)

  • There seems to be a problem with MacFUSE/SSHFS such that when you mount a drive it doesn’t show up in the sidebar. It is there in /Volumes/ #
  • It’s a shame that the Time Machine icon in the menubar doesn’t dim when Time Machine is disabled. Seems the obvious thing to do. #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-23 (via Twitter)

  • Having the path to the current folder shown at the bottom of Finder is useful. I have no idea why it hadn’t been included before. #
  • Having that ridiculously noisy LaCie Quadra drive as my TimeMachine backup drive is going to drive me insane. #
  • Back in render time hell. Everything is sooooo slooooooow… .. . . . #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-22 (via Twitter)

  • I’ve set SuperDuper going over lunch, and then in the afternoon I shall make the leap to Leopard. #
  • Some damn sexy data visualisations at www.linkfluence.net. #
  • Ooh look. A leopard. #
  • Front Row is so much more responsive in Leopard than Tiger. Network drives seem less prone to jamming the whole system as well. #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-20 (via Twitter)

  • Is it me, or is the iTunes music store slooooww? #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-12 (via Twitter)

  • I’m playing with Opera Mini; they provide a great mobile proxy, it reduces a large Confluence wiki page to 7k. #

Quick thoughts for 2008-02-06 (via Twitter)

  • Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s track Big Red Balloon is one of the best surreal pop songs ever. Fantastic. #