In my Inbox this morning, a message sent at 1:05am: * Important Notice Concerning Your UA Email/Computer Accounts* Our records indicate that you may no longer be associated with the University of Arizona as a student or employee. Therefore, your UA Email, Computer Accounts, and/or Super computer account hosted by UITS is scheduled for deletion […]
Activated “Time Machine” backup feature on office Mac: Friday afternoon. First need to use Time Machine due to inadvertently deleted file: Monday morning.
Following on from our discussion of editing tools the other day, and in response to a couple of requests, I have updated and somewhat expanded my note about Choosing Your Workflow Applications. The revised version talks about which operating system to choose (to a first approximation, these days I’m agnostic), focuses on Emacs+R+LaTeX as an […]
This ad has been playing on various PC websites, such as CNET’s Windows Vista Overview page. It’s a very clever use of sidebars and ad banners.
So naturally I upgraded to Leopard a few days ago. Generally a smooth process, with the occasional headache (reinstalling stupid HP printer drivers, grr) balanced out with the occasional pleasant discovery not hyped beforehand (Terminal now aware of the Keychain, hurray). But here’s something that looks like a bug a slightly counterintuitive feature in OS […]
In Leopard, the Terminal is Keychain-aware. That’s very convenient, and does away with the need for sshkeychain.
1. Read Henry’s post on Facebook. Signed up out of curiosity and masochistic desire to have smallness of social network confirmed. 2. Joined the University of Arizona network. Noodling around, saw the profile for Joe Grad Student from my department. Looked at his list of friends. 3. Noticed that one of Joe Grad Student’s friends […]
I was able to pick up an iPhone early through a local contact at Apple, and I have to say it’s really something. No of course I wasn’t able to do that—who do you think I am? Besides, I already have a phone on a relatively new contract. But I was in the Campus Bookstore […]
I know I speak as a Mac user and thus by definition in thrall to the Steve Jobs RDF —though I am not in the market for a phone right now—but looking at these new commercials, it does seem as though the iPhone is going to be a license for Apple to print money. When […]
Via 3QD, a nice profile of the great Don Knuth who—amongst many other things—gave the world TeX, which, together with its various descendants, helps make technical writing beautiful and encourages amateur typophiles to waste their time formatting their work.
John McCain’s MySpace page “borrows” Mike D.’s page template and also hotlinks to images on his server. So he makes a few changes to them. Via John “You’re having a membership drive but you still haven’t mailed me my t-shirt, it’ll be three months on Friday” Gruber.
Becks at Unfogged is justly skeptical of Twitter yet fears its inevitability. Kathy Sierra’s Asymptotic Twitter Curve is a sharp summary of the problem: One question is whether the curve describes some kind of cognitive limit or is a rather more cohort-specific representation of the dangers of adopting technologies developed an increasing number of years […]
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