house of warwick

Pretty Pretty Bang Bang: “Well, the days of me bitching about my job have come to a close. I lost it today. Actually, I was told that the company could no longer afford to pay me (or another girl) because it was on the verge of bankruptcy. So I’m not a loser, I’m just someone without a job.”

Overall, it’s a good thing. Money will be very tight for awhile so if anyone has any brilliant ideas for Tammy’s jewelry business, we’re all ears.

Here’s a link from the WebKit open source project commit message page…

WebKit: “* WebInspector/WebInspector.m: (+[WebInspector sharedWebInspector:]): Fixed bug that could cause the inspector to be garbage collected if used in an application with GC enabled.”

Looks like we might be getting garbage collection as some predicted.

Beauty School Dropout: “We whipped up some yummy breakfast burritos (camp food is not haute cuisine but it always tastes so good!) and drove a couple of miles another campground to rent our canoes, since all the canoes at the state park were already reserved”

MAKE Magazine: “VisionFoo made a simple automatic cat water fountain from an aquarium cascade pump”

MAKE Magazine: “Tabletop studio has some good tips and instructions on taking close up photos of jewelry (these techniques are good for other close ups of shiny things too)”

I’ve finally cleaned up the last of my Radio UserLand life. I’ve unsubscribed from all of the websites for their products and the owner’s weblogs. Jake Savin’s long since moved on to Microsoft and Lawrence Lee is the only one steering the ship at this point. I’ve unsubscribed from his weblog because it’s only a shadow of it’s former self.

I’ve stopped using the software and it feels very good. NetNewsWire is good for news aggregating and most of all, it runs well on almost any Mac. This aging G3 iBook will load and use it without complaint. The switch to Wordpress was a breeze, but I’m still missing some content from the old days I’d like to have.

The best part about the whole thing has been the utter lack of issues. I write more often because my tools don’t get in the way. For example, in MarsEdit, I have a custom layout for attributed posts set in my prefs. In NetNewsWire, when I selected some of the body text of a post I wanted to quote, NNW only sent the selected part to MarsEdit–exactly what I would have hoped. It’s a silent feature, one that you won’t hear much about, but it shows that the programmer was a craftsman.

Radio UserLand has always been slapdash–hurry up and write it and move on. Now that I’m learning more about software programming, it’s errors are more obvious and more disappointing.

It served me well for years, but I’m glad I finally killed my copy of Radio.

Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger: “And why Six Apart’s Vox product is doomed to fail (Mena, why did you give a product pitch when asked on stage ‘what do you think the future is going to look like?’ That got you scorned by women at dinner afterward that I, and my wife, talked to)”