June 2004

dashboard, hmmmm

June 30, 2004

in Tech

So. If I were going to pitch a book on developing dashboard widgets, I’d need access to prerelease software and docs at Apple. I know there is some preliminary developer documentation out there already (John Gruber talks about it on daring fireball). Would this be as simple as getting a paid developer subscription through ADC? [...]

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a cheerful welcome

June 28, 2004

in Meta

…to the surprisingly large number of readers coming to this blog based on a web search for the words “hairy armpits.”

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Six months ago this week we lost Ariel, the first cat I owned as an adult. I could nostalgically talk about Ariel in loving terms and wax on about how gentle and friendly she was, but actually she was loud and cranky. She had a lot of personality, and most of it was bad. But [...]

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My new Nokia cell phone has a little mini-joystick in the middle of the phone that replaces the standard Nokia up and down buttons. Its actually a really cool UI feature in that you can navigate in all four directions with it and also click it like a mouse. Clicking it brings up a shortcut [...]

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I got to work early this morning and was on my way down the hallway to the coffee when some guy walked out in front of me in from the adjoining hall. Older guy, nicely dressed, middle manager type. I followed him for a while at a respectful distance and he glanced back at me [...]

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