For a moment, I’d like to you remember what you can about The Matrix. Now, only think about the first film, and not the other two, as if you’re anything like me, you’ve spent considerable time and effort to suppress the memories of those even existing, and I’d hate for you to undo that hard work. Why mention the Matrix? Because...

Update: hmmm… looks like this may be only a temporary fix after all. It worked yesterday, rolling from Sept. 2 to 3, but this morning the date didn’t update to Sept. 4. I’m still searching for a solution, but based on the number of other folks I’m seeing report this issue, hopefully there will be an actual fix in 10.6.1. This is...

After months of silence on the issue, I can finally reveal the project I’ve been working on for the last few months. I can also explain why you might find an unusual amount of Kelly Clarkson music on my iPod, and why I know every word of some of her songs. (It even explains why three geeks from Rain were bouncing up and down like little girls...

emacs sucks. Before the emacs lovers get on my case, for the record, I hate vi, vim, pico, and pretty much every other command line based text editor as well. Like many developers, several times a day I fire up Terminal on my Mac to take care of a few things, mostly working with Subversion or Git. I don’t mind using Terminal for tasks like these,...

Nothing terribly fancy today, but I found something I made a while ago and figured I’d share it. If you’re a fan of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, it’s very likely that you’ve seen the teaser trailer for the sequel that was released back in March. In the trailer, pretty much all you see is a green line that reacts to audio,...

I’m sorry to return from such a long break from posting with a rant like this, but I wanted to get this story out there. Today I’d like to present a new theory I’m currently working on. I’ve yet to come up with a name for this, but in summary, here it is: Any customer service employee deemed too inept to function at the task...