I’ve noticed a couple of blogs that hilight the comments made by particular users, mainly the blog owner, but in one case there were two writers, male and female that had blue and pink comment boxes respectively, and everyone else had another colour. I might implement this for another blog I’m working on, to do with a Touch team I’m Assistant Coach of. (South Australia Mens Open). I’ll also probably implement it here, at least for testing purposes.
After my whinge about the 0.9a2 (or whatever the ‘stable’ version was numbered), I downloaded the nightly development build, and it seems more stable. It also has a Pause/Resume butoon in the Downloads window. Doesn’t seem to like Resuming much though…
I’m surprised I’ve never come across this before. There is a town in Germany, about 200km from Hanover, called Schinkel. (Note the missing ‘c’) It’s just out of Osnabrück (less than 4km), and quite near the Hotel Westerkamp, and there seems to be a significant cemetary right nearby. Oh, hang on a bit, there’s also a Schinkel in Schleswig-Holstein, about 50km North-West of Hamburg. And another one, just a short hop across the river, in Land Niedersachsen. Finally, there’s also Schinkel-über-Kiel, right up on the northern edge of Germany. Just over Kiel, incidentally. As an aside, I found the following:
What does the Schinkel name mean? German (mainly North German) and Dutch: variant of Schenkel What does the Schenkel name mean? Last Name: Schenkel German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with long or otherwise notable legs, from Middle High German schenkel, Middle Dutch schenkel, schinkel ’thigh’, ’lower leg’, German Schenkel ’thigh’.
The irony is I have short legs…
I found an old entry on Peter B’s site about making text entry areas resizable, and thought I might implement it on my site. It’s not working yet, but this is more of a reminder for me to do it…
It’s nearly time for me to reconsider my DNS Registration - I went with a $9.95 Dreamhost annual price, under the belief it was $9.95/year for life, but this was only for one year. I don’t use any of the hosting features, just DNS registration, address forwarding and mail forwarding. I’m looking for a cheap registrar who offers these things. Anyone know of any DNS Registrars that are cheap and good?
My two favourite static optical illusions. The first one just makes my eyes hurt! 
This second one is less painful, but wiggs you out a little none the less. 
I borrowed Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X from the library the other day. I’ve read most of it, away from the computer, although I plan to reread it in front of the iMac over the next few weeks. I’ll write a review of it a bit later, but it reminded me that I still have a memory leak in iTunesRater. Also, I think I’ll rewrite iTunesRater as a Cocoa Objective-C application, rather than AppleScript Studio. Then I can just use an AppleScript message to get/send data, rather than relying on AppleScript for interface updates. That way the application may be a bit snappier. And hopefully I’ll overcome the memory leak. I was actually thinking of a refactor anyway, as there’s a whole heap of semi-duplicated code in there.
Creative Commons licenses are great - from a reader’s point of view, they’ve allowed people to publish, and me to read a whole variety of stories I might never have otherwise come across. Cory Doctorow is one example - he writes daily for Boing Boing, but has also written a whole heap of short stories, many of which I have on my Zire, and I read one every now and then. I really enjoyed Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In fact, I managed to throw the term Whuffie into a comment the other day. Anyway, I came across this tonight: a short story by Charles Stross. Loving it, so far.
I really like Camino. It’s pretty much like FireFox, but with a more Mac feel. However, with the latest feel, I’ve noticed the occasional lockup. I get the spinning beachball of death, and no response. I haven’t found out what’s causing it, whether it’s a particular site or otherwise… Update: A second issue - not sure if it’s a new one. If you have a File Selector open, and a currently loading page decides to ask for a cookie, and you have the setting of “Ask before accepting each cookie”, then you won’t be able to dismiss either object, and will have to force quit. This has caused me to rethink my idea of Asking before accepting cookies.
I’ve noticed a whole heap of blogs that use the “X hours after the fact” tagline as part of the comment. I’ve tried to implement this under Blogsome, but I’m struggling. I know I need to use the following: { comment_date } and { the_date } The problems I have encountered - Smarty doesn’t seem to like subtracting values that are dates, and I can’t seem to get them as numbers… Anyone done this?