Virtual Thought

Re-thinking the blog. Stay tuned.

So I ran Monolingual on my laptop to remove all those pesky international files that I don’t need, trying to save some space.

Problem was: After I ran it, everything I typed in lowercase appeared as kanji. Seriously. Katakana, I think.

Whoops.

A restart cleared things up. But, for a while there, I thought I would have to reinstall OS X. Whoa.

Godammit, before I could get off my ass and write a tumblelog using Rails someone created exactly what I wanted in tumblelogs.

So here’s my tumblelog.

And here’s Leo Laporte’s tumblelog.

Daring Fireball has a laugh-out-loud funny piece that translates from PR-speak to English specific portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s ‘open letter’ in response to Steve Job’s open letter.

Ohmygod it is HI-larious. He spot-on nails the misconceptions, blatant lies, and doublespeak that this man is employing in an attempt to maintain a crumbling empire built upon that most fallacious of lies: DRM works and benefits everyone. Wrong, buddy.

I wanted to switch from my old del.icio.us account to my new del.icio.us account and was very, very thankful for the (new-to-me) import feature. One problem though.

All my imported bookmarks are marked not shared. Dammit.

I haven’t been using del.icio.us that long, so it’s not like I have thousands upon thousands of links… but I have enough in there that I want public that editing each one individually to share it is a tremendous pain in my ass. Glancing through the comments on this post it seems that many people want the “share all” feature… but the del.icio.us developers have stated that they will not implement this feature.

I find that developers (myself included) get these little wild hairs up their butts about the funniest things: The creators of Yojimbo are vehemently against organizing information in the application using hierarchical folders. Not as big a pain point there as the tagging support more than makes up for it… but, dammit, sometimes I want to organize things as “Letters/Work” and “Letters/Personal”.

Anyway, I’ll probably release a little script soon that re-shares all one’s del.icio.us bookmarks.

This one’s funny:

toothpastefordinner.com

And The Order of the Stick is swiftly becoming one of my favorite fantasy epics of all time… not just because he’s nailed the dialogue of a role-playing group to a tee, but he also has engaging characters, great plot-lines, a neat, abstract art style. I’m a huge fan!