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I’ve always liked the programming-languages community website Lambda the Ultimate, and recently I went looking for something similar for the High-Performance Computing community. I didn’t find exactly that*, but I did find a few great resources for news about HPC and computing research policy: HPCWire is a well-known news source for HPC. It has daily [...]
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The other day, I had a big outline on a wiki that I wanted to edit in OmniOutliner so I could hide and move things around with a real outliner, then export it back out to the wiki. I managed to get it into OO with copy and paste and a lot of RSI-inducing tabbing, [...]
Last spring, when I wrote about highlights from the NHL Playoffs being available on the iTunes store, I said: 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. This weekend, when I [...]
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Dear spam filter, I cannot read Russian. If a message is in Russian, it is spam, just like all the other Russian messages I have marked as spam. Thank you for listening – your pal, mike
I’ve taken to carrying my camera around with me, for practice. It’s lead to an unhealthy obsession with camera bags (of which there is no perfect single choice). It’s also lead to maxing out my Flickr account quickly, and I have no cash for a Pro account. So, I thought I’d try the new – [...]
Even after moving web-based mail to a separate app, I still usually have at least two browsers open at all times – Camino when something doesn’t load in Safari, Firefox for tails (a microformats helper), and Safari, which I’m used to, has my bookmarks, and auto-fills forms. Safari freezes and crashes pretty often for me, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Rady School, you may be dedicated to producing business leaders who can straddle both the business world and the world of science and technology, but please ditch the little animated guy on your homepage who told me that. Also, please read this adaptive path essay on user-centered URL design, and revisit your URLs. Most [...]