Just a note to say that my MacBook Pro arrived yesterday (Sep 9). I’ve not had a chance to play much with it beyond transferring my data, but I’ll be sure to report on it as soon as I can. Also, today (Sep 10) my Snow Leopard Box Set — which I pre-ordered from Amazon [...]
About all I have time or energy for at the moment is to note a few random items of interest. The first is Jeffrey Zeldman’s Write When Inspired (via Daring Fireball, of course). Take it as the rationale for the current blight of posts here. And take it as sage advice. Sometimes I beat myself [...]
So for, like, forever Google apps — in particular, Gmail and Google Calendar — have bore a beta label. Now, no one has any idea why this has been the case, but this week Google has decided to remove the beta label with little more than PR-speak as an explanation: “We realize this situation puzzles [...]
I just discovered this (yes, I am slow): Gmail allows for multiple selection using the same method as the Finder. That is, selecting an email with the email’s checkbox and then holding the shift key while ticking another email’s checkbox will select a range of emails between the two selections. Very handy!
John Gruber today opines that there is no GUI interface for the command-line tool for converting Quicktime movies into the OGG Theora format — a very handy thing to be able to do if you want to serve video to Firefox-type browsers using HTML 5′s <video> and <audio> tags. Since this is something I do [...]
Wikis are just one more thing I’ve always wanted to play around with. And my job has, once again, afforded me the opportunity to do just that. We’re currently using an engine called DokuWiki, so I decided to kick its tires and see what it — and wikis in general — are all about. DokuWiki’s [...]
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for data loss in the Systems Boy household. Fortunately, it’s been a fairly good week for data recovery, so we’ve mostly broken even, minus the time lost recovering data, of course. Most recently, something seems to have taken a large (by which I mean everything) bite out of [...]
The buzz around Twitter is, frankly, reaching a pitched and utterly annoying frenzy. Some of the latest stuff I’ve read, though, has inspired me to add my voice to the throngs. Yes, that would be you people. Now let me start by saying I don’t use Twitter. I don’t even have an account. And this [...]
My name is Systems Boy. Hi there. We have a new look today. It’s based on a WordPress theme called Blue by Sean McPherson of Brambling Design. I’ve taken some liberties with Blue, enlarging some of the fonts, changing some colors and widening the post area. But the basic look remains the same: clean, simple, [...]
I got a number of great comments on the recent post on Design vs. Data. But my favorite by far was on the subjectivity of design and aesthetics: “The way things look is important, but the way things look is also *subjective*. Terribly so. I have a Macbook Pro and I think it looks like [...]