I don’t typically whine about the US patent office, but this just takes the cake.
Archive for November, 2006
What does a person do when 43,000 pounds of cranberries lands in their front yard? The Aldergrove Star has the answer.
Roughly Drafted takes a look at Vista vs. Leopard in Naked Sales. The article starts slow, buts gets more interesting as it progresses.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball writes how Beta is not an excuse. I agree with all of this; if there’s an incomplete (as opposed to merely buggy) area in a beta, at a minimum the developer should specify what it is.
Before my Beryl experiments, I briefly toyed with creating a new theme. I actually came up with something that I liked a lot. But upon returning to metacity I discovered that Edgy Eft has a theme that, while not perfect, is closer to what I want than what I came up with. A better starting place, if you will, though I’m still not very pleased with the title bars and will probably customize it at some point.
The theme name is Blubuntu. It is a pleasing theme with white and light grey backgrounds, accented with blue. In many ways, it’s exactly what I was looking for: A modernization of the old Apple System 7 theme.
You can install it with synaptic.
Walter Mossberg has written a piece taking a look at Zune. It looks like Microsoft has applied their typical “copy, but break” strategy to it, which has been so effective in the past.
Lore Sjöberg writes about a robot identifying human flesh as bacon, and another person as prosciutto. One wonders what the difference was. Full story.
Apple’s upgraded the MacBook’s CPU. I was expecting Apple to keep a gap between the MacBook and MacBook Pro for a while, and I wasn’t even sure it would be an artificial gap.
Dave Kellet’s Sheldon has broken from his syndicate and moved back to the web.
Today my wife asked me to find her a cold Coke. I went into the garage, into the little bar fridge we had before we got the real fridge in February. I thought my brother was using it, but I thought maybe he had a Coke in there he wouldn’t mind me giving her. The food possession rules get stretched a little when someone’s pregnant.
It looks like he thought I was using the fridge. My stuff is still in there. Thankfully, I threw out the nasty perishables before we moved the fridge. But I did find a few beers (I don’t drink anymore, but they’re probably still good), and a 500 mL milk carton, dated February 17th. It was the “Coffee Creamer” type, which I think is 5.5% milk fat or something like that. I peaked inside. I can see why it doesn’t stink. The entire thing is a giant block. I may have just created cheese. I’m not going to try to make a sandwich with it, though.
I put it back in the fridge. Some things should just be left in peace. I’ll wait until next garbage day to open that fridge again.