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It seems to me that all text and other Mac OS X user interface elements are a little bit bigger than their counterparts on the PC. Why is that? It seems like the same size screen fits less stuff when attached to a Mac OS X system than to a Win XP system. It’s annoying – it makes you feel less productive. I am hunting for some tweak software to adjust this but I am starting to think it doesn’t exist. Why?
(If you are not a BlogBridge you will not find this very interesting) We notice many of you have requested a BlogBridge account but not activated it. Here’s the thing: once you ask for the account, you will receive an email with a link in it that you have to click. Until you click, your account will not be ready to us. (Our instructions need to be improved!) Why activate? Because until you do, the wonderful benefits of the BlogBridge service will not be available to you!
Did you know that BlogBridge has ‘themes’ ? Well today there are only two, but soon there will be many. A Theme is just way to set all the fonts and colors and other UI settings in one fell swoop. For example, the “Big Theme” uses larger fonts making them easier to read. Enjoy!
I was lucky enough to be able to participate in a conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility at Harvard University. I am not myself an expert on this but found the discussions extremely instructive. And of course I see possibilities that our [BlogBrid...
Read more →You’ve heard this one before: there are more and more truly outstanding pieces of software coming out as Open Source. Everyone has heard about FireFox, right, the wonderful Web Browser from the Mozilla guys. I just came across [news that Internet Explorer usage fell again](http://www.activewin.com/...
Read more →For close readers of this (yes all two of you), I was considering switching to a Mac as my primary computer. Basically I had a mac as a tirtiary computer, just for testing BlogBridge. I got to like it, and after a fairly careful study of the trade-offs, I’ve done it. As of now, my Windows box is off...
Read more →I got many comments from people about my postingsrecently about Lotus Improv. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a pretty accurate description of Improv and its history in the WikiPedia. By the way, I had absolutely nothing to do with writing it. Actually I am quite curious who did write it, because he or she was pretty well informed so I suspect it’s someone who was on the team from the early days, or knew someone who was. (Of course there are a few inaccuracies, but what the heck!) Cool
(Non-users of BlogBridge, this wil not be interesting to you. But you have to ask yourself, why are you not using it?) As most everyone who uses BlogBridge seems to be subscribed to my Blog I thought posting a tip or news every so often might be a way to expose some thinking about BlogBridge to you ...
Read more →Peggy Noonan is a great, albeit a little on the conservative side, columnist that I read whenever I can. Here’s a good article she wrote on the Main Stream Media. Blogs and Dan Rather.
I think the Segway Human Transporter is really cool, and I’ve read many articles about how they work and what they are like. But this past weekend I had the unique experience of spending about 4 hours riding around New Orleans on a Segway. Eye Opening. Here are some (surprising) observations...
Read more →I’m seriously thinking about starting to use a Macintosh for my day to day work computer instead of a PC! Can you believe it? Why? - My research so far says that a fast Mac running OS X is comparable, price performance to a Wintel computer. I’m a big fan of wonderful design and while I think Windo...
Read more →Amusing. Do you recognize yourself? And while you are wasting time, how easily can you tell a programmer from a serial killer?
What does the existence of “BCC” (which I think stands for the anachronism “blind carbon copy”) tell us about the social norms of emails? This thought occurred to me just now as I was the recipient of an email (corresponding to (3) in the not at all uncommon scenario that I describe below. It is an ...
Read more →I really love her major novels although I haven’t looked at them in years. You know how you remember a novel to be great, but upon looking at it again 20 years later, you just don’t know what you saw in it? So, as I say, I remember really loving her major novels, but, thismakes me think again: > The United States government, however, should not give any money to help the tsunami victims. Why? Because the money is not the government’s to give. From the Ayn Rand Institute. Link.
There has been a lot of traffic on this new meme “Folksonomies”. This Slashdot bithas many of the important links in it, and I can’t say that I’ve read all of it, so what I am describing below may be old hat. I am thinking that while Folksonomi...
Read more →Grady Booch is one of the luminaries of our field. Take a look at this postand tell me that it isn’t amazing and touching to see people revealing a personal side which one otherwise probably never would see.
I just finished watching “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” which had some really cool scenes with these warrior elephants. So here is a case of life immitating art: * Two elephants clear debris in Indonesia’s tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh January 3, 2005. Eight days on, hungry and sick survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami are waiting for food and medicine in growing desperation as a multinational aid operation tries to reach remote towns ravaged by the waves. (Beawiharta/Reuters)*
I’ve been using Microsoft Money ** (their personal finance package) for years now (after having switched from Quicken probably 5 years ago.) I really like it, for what it is. In January of each of the last few years it seems, I shell out another $60 for the latest “upgrade”**, install it, and i...
Read more →In the realm of interesting visualizations, check this oneout. It’s a Chess game where the computer’s ‘thought process’ is displayed as it figures out the next move. Via “Bad Magic Number” who said “It’s quite an interesting cross between art, programming and chess. “
Continuing thinking about GMail and what Google really is up to. From the Department of Unintended Consequences (via Paul Kleppner): **… somebody has created a Windows file system extension so that you can use your 1gb GMail account as a remote file system! It’s a crazy hack. But it makes me t...
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