11.15.04
Great Oregon Map
Take a look at Darrel’s area-balanced Oregon map of 2004 votes. It’s very cool!
11.11.04
Signs Your Finder Shell is Dying
I’ve got 39 days of uptime and just noticed that when I hit my Mute key, the little trasparent window would come up and flash the volume meter showing that there were no bars showing, but then bump back up to one bar, leaving the speaker on, but set to just one bar.
So I logged out and logged back in and my mute button works just fine. Logging out of the Finder and then back in is an easy alternative to rebooting the whole machine.
11.10.04
A Citation
So I came across this article recently:
Microsoft’s Sparkle is more than vaporware
Might I meta-cite:
I never really thought much about this until today, but the “Flash aesthetic” has been pretty tired for a while now. Ross Olson first coined the term in his article of the same name, published back in 2001. (The Flash Aesthetic.)
I understand that the concept of the FA may be passe, but nonetheless, I still see it on a regular basis. It’s taken over virtually all popular animation design at the least.
11.07.04
City of Skyscrapers
Speaking of votes by Counties, I thought this was an interesting map:
usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/
You can pretty much pick out the major cities and college towns in the US, but you’ve still got a few blue areas in odd areas of Montana and the Dakotas.
Here’s another map, this time a 3D one where each county is given a height that I think is based on the number of votes by which the candidate won (but there’s no legend, so I’m not completely sure).
3d map of US county votes, 2004
Take a look at Chicago!
The Apple Product Cycle
[…] Pointless outrage slowly turns to pointless optimism. Driven insane by the lack of instant gratification, would-be customers profess their willingness to gun down the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny if it would hasten the arrival of the FedEx delivery person. […]
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11.04.04
GeekTool Woes
If you’re getting a weird issue with GeekTool where your little windows won’t show up unless the GeekTools PrefsPane is open, try switching your color depth from Thousands to Millions. Now they show up just fine for me.
I’ve got a little status window that shows me a bunch of neat stuff:
Thu, Nov 04 (13:46)
Uptime: 32 days, 18 hours
Magenta: 10G used, 3.5G left
RiffRaff: 3.6G used, 1.4G left
Ext IP: 63.227.218.225
Int IP: 10.0.0.156
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11.01.04
Ballooning into the Sky
I’m not one to be envious. Oh sure, there’s stuff that other people have done that I’d like to get a crack at, but true envy, that’s green-eyed monster never comes out around me.
Well, almost never.
If you read the Introduction page and get all the way to the bottom, there’s a link to a They Might Be Giants-powered slide show of most of the images you’ve just scrolled through.
This may very well inspire some dreams over the next few nights…
or years.
Woo Hoo WiFi v1
C-Net, aka news.com.com, has an article noting a report that says Portland (w/ Vancouver) is the most *unwired* city in America. And yet they don’t even mention PersonalTelco at all! For shame! It looks like the “reporter” simply interviewed the Press Release rather than doing any actual research.
10.17.04
A New Electoral Force
A woman saw that no one was running for a Soil and Water Conservation District position, so she asked for people to write her in… Through a Portland-oriented LiveJournal group.
Because I can’t stand that empty feeling
Well this should be interesting to watch. Voted in by LiveJournal readers. I’ll have to keep an eye on her journal to find out if she won or not.
(Can you tell I’m voting tonight? Why? Because Oregon Votes!)
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10.15.04
Deficit shmeficit
William Bragg has a post called No words necessary that displays a very readable chart of the federal gov’s Budget deficit since 1992.
Fiscal responsibility? Ha. (Sob.)