05. Feb 2008 
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Just in case you missed it, today is “Super Tuesday“. If your state is one of the 24 involved, go and vote. Unless you’re not a citizen of the U.S., there’s no excuse if you don’t. It’s a rather important one - we’re in the early stages of selecting somebody who gets to clean up [...]
04. Feb 2008 
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A couple of days ago, Daring Fireball pointed me to a great new web site, Instapaper. Basically, it’s a trivial way to collect your own little list of links that you want to read later. It’s an awesome way to transport URLs between multiple computers, your iPhone, and all the other web-enabled devices you might [...]
02. Feb 2008 4 comments
Update: Since many people search for this specific string, this article tells you how to “uninstall icalfix”
With OSX Leopard, iCalFix has ceased to be useful. The core functionality is now part of iCal, iCalFix is incompatible with Leopard, and Apple is phasing out the method I used to actually modify iCal. As a result, many [...]
01. Feb 2008 5 comments
One of the changes in this year is that Petra and I decided to take a bit more control over our lifes. As part of this, we’re reviewing our goals and tasks from time to time. To be exact, we have a daily ‘meeting’ (usually right before bed time) looking at what tasks we completed [...]
07. Jan 2008 0 comments
Finally, I’ve arrived in 2008 too. No, I’m not in an as of yet unheard of time zone - I simply was taking some time off, and not even dealing with the fact that a new year is upon us all. But now I’m rested and ready to join the rest of the world in [...]
18. Nov 2007 0 comments
As promised in a previous article, I’ve been spending a bit more time researching backup options with OSX. Number One priority for backup - you actually need space to store your data. For now, I’ve been mostly looking into local hard drive storage.
At the very least, you need one external hard drive to store your [...]
05. Nov 2007 0 comments
No, not “to” the mines - My work is actually a fairly relaxed place.
Instead, Petra and I spent the weekend in the mountains at Pala, screening for Gems. There’s exactly one working mine left in Pala, and the guys who run it (Purely as a hobby!) have open screening sessions. I.e. you can sift through [...]
31. Oct 2007 4 comments
I’ve just discovered a rather annoying change in Safari’s RSS behavior. It lets you pick a feed now - i.e. if a page has multiple feeds, a little drop-down appears.
That, in my book, is a bad idea. I’ll invoke the mythical UI Grandma (”Would your Grandma know what this means?”). It’s simply confusing. People have [...]
29. Oct 2007 0 comments
Like every other Mac-geek on this planet, I got Leopard on Friday - the Family Pack, since by now we’ve got 3 Macs in our household. The installation went relatively painlessly. I don’t run APE, which can cause crashes on install, but I still had a minor issue where it refused to recognize any partition [...]
21. Oct 2007 4 comments
In the last few weeks, I’ve encountered a surprising number of data losses, or at least near-losses. People accidentally deleting stuff, losing their hard drives, or being locked out by their online providers.
That’s scary, considering that most of my life resides on some form of hard drive by now. So I decided to take a [...]