(at computer, working, frustrated) “Rr, I wish…”
“….?”
[silence]
(still facing the computer) “I wish you would use consistent indentation.”
“Me?”
“!! No. Your indentation is delicious.”
ohh, you twit.
Asked by Woodward how history would judge the war, Bush replied: “History. We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.“
This morning, I despair for a bright light out of the White House. Not the bright light of People I Happen To Agree With, but that of any semblance of intelligence.
On the other hand, things seem to be the Chinese sense of interesting pretty much all over. [Harper’s has an RSS feed, by the way.]
simple, as all genius.
All I wanted was to have all of the tags I’ve used so far in a project (in multiple files) at my disposal in drop-down lists in oXygen.
Problem is, while oXygen is great at learning all of the elements and their attributes you’ve used so far in a single document, this knowledge cannot be easily shared between documents.
Creating a DTD turns out to be impractical, because then I cannot easily add new elements to it.
The solution was, as usual, simple: with each new file I create, I include all of the previous files into it as entities. This way, oXygen sees all of the elements I’ve used thus far, and has no trouble learning new ones. When I’m done editing the newest file, the entities referring to other files are wiped.
This makes editing so much easier!
can we just please get our priorities straight? please?
Mr. Walters is furious with Canada for exposing innocent US to DANGERS UNTOLD.
Meanwhile, we kill and maim and heighten surveillance and cheat and give to the rich and rob the earth. For goodness’ sake.
Roooooob!
Rob Wittig, one of my favorite contemporary writers and artists, appears in a New York Times article today: “Call me Email: The Novel Unfolds Digitally.” (Subscription required, sorry. Look to NikkiNewsNet for a login cheat, if you will; and NNN is wonderful reading in its own right as well.)
And after you read the article, run do not walk to Wittigwords.
aaaaaa curse you bluetooth!
Dear Self,
Next time your keyboard commands get all out of whack, and it seems like there’s a stuck command key but none of the keys on your keyboard are stuck,
maybe it’s a depressed key.
of the Bluetooth keyboard sitting on the desk to your left,
still turned on,
under some papers. d’oh.
images people post
This little toy aggregates and displays the latest images that LiveJournal users have been posting. “They may be subject to copyright and may not be work safe,” reads the warning. LJ users seem to post images rather frequently – every time I reload the page, all of the new loads are completely different. Of course, LJ has what, over a million users? So the volume is not that surprising. Amusing, though.
While we’re at it, Ethan pointed me at Random Personal Picture Finder ™, which makes up a random string likely to be commonly used by digital cameras, and searches Google Images for it.
quicksilver!
No, not the recent Stephenson novel, but this free gadget for Mac OS X users. Allows you to use the keyboard to launch applications and do much more – Dan Dickinson’s tutorial is excellent for discovering most of its features. I like this app much better than LaunchBar, which isn’t bad but got to be kind of a nuisance. Quicksilver is just… slick. And with a gorgeous interface to boot.
no trojan. we’re still number one.
So, the Mac OS X Trojan scare was just that. A PLOY by a virus protection software company to FURTHER its own ECONOMIC INERESTS.
Well, I never.
family
Halley Suitt’s tribute to her father on the second anniversary of his death makes me think of the three years gone by since I’ve lost mine. Of family, blood and chosen, of interpersonal relationships, of my sadness at how often we manage to forget what’s important.
