Leap Year Fractals
Fracture is a fractal screensaver for Mac OS X that creates some of the most fantastic, richly detailed fractal images I have ever seen. I don’t normally configure a screensaver; preferring instead to … Read more
Month: February 2004
Thunderbird Fix Posted
I had another tip published at the MacOSXhints site. After CarbonCopyCloning my internal harddisk to an external firewire drive I noticed problems with my mail client, Firebird. It would sort of start, but … Read more
Mohs Surgery
This afternoon I underwent a successfull Mohs surgery for the removal of a basal cell skin cancer from my chin. The cancer was non-life threatening, and apparently basal cell skin cancers are relatively … Read more
PHP CSS Style Switcher
Last night I decided to take another look at the idea of providing a way for visitors to this site to be able to change the color scheme. I had the “grey” look … Read more
You Don’t Often See This
I’m going in Thursday for a very minor operation involving a sore on my face, near my lip. That in and of itself isn’t worth noting here. However, in order to ensure complete … Read more
Grey Tuesday
Today is Grey Tuesday.This morning I edited the site’s CSS file and turned most background elements a shade of grey as a sign of support for the right to distribute the Grey Album. … Read more
We Don’t Support That
Punters, givers and formatters. Tech support staff earn these colorful nicknames based on their approach to meeting an “average call time” goal of 12 minutes. On the other hand, if your goal is … Read more
A Wonderful Place to Be
I just ran across this interview with David Kemper, drummer for the Jerry Garcia Band for 10 years and later a member of Bob Dylan’s touring band. It’s an honest look back at … Read more
eTech04 Summary
I attended the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (eTech04) in San Diego the week of February 9th. It was a fantastic, energetic and thought provoking conference, covering a wide variety of topics that I’m … Read more