From BLDGBLOG, some pictures and romantic musings about everyone’s favorite kind of computer – big, expensive, finicky and shared: the Supercomputer. Be sure to click through to see the picture of the MareNostrum system filling a glass box in a chapel in Barcelona. There are more great photos on photographer Simon Norfolk’s site. I wish [...]

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Now that I don’t have regular access to cable TV, the sensation I felt when I noticed the announcement of NHL playoff video available on iTunes was that of Steve Jobs signing my name on a check for ten dollars and winking. Each video is ~20 minutes of highlights, and the video quality, while suffering [...]

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The old debate over donation-ware and pricing has popped up again, in response to Peter Maurer‘s Textpander, since expanded into TextExpander. The debate rages in comments on TUAW and a bit more on HawkWings. Both TUAW and the MacUser blog choose to call it “freeware”, which is technically true, but blurs the lines in an [...]

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XCode 2.3 is out, so why not spend a nice May evening reading some Dev Tools release notes? There are some excited posts about Dedicated Network Builds from people who work at Apple, but not having a cluster of build machines myself, I’m not so worked up. (Unless sourceforge gets on that for their build [...]

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I came back from a weekend camping trip to find that my post about WebMail.app got a lot of attention: TUAW, Hawk Wings, and MacUser, for starters. Some people got what I was trying to do with it, and some didn’t. The idea got passed around a bit, so a few commenters probably didn’t read [...]

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Webmail is really a separate application. When I’m visiting GMail, I’m checking mail, not browsing the web. So what’s so bad about using a browser for this? Minor Gripes If I keep a browser window running with GMail, now clicking on the Safari dock icon just brings that sucker up instead of creating a new [...]

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