I’m a big fan of clutter-free UI design. That’s what first attracted me to Writeroom and eventually Scrivener (where the full-screen feature is much better designed). When it comes to blog themes, I find myself drawn to the less-cluttered approach. I intentionally kept the last theme (shown here) simple. But even that seemed too busy. [...]
Discovered on the Berkeley Public Library Online Resources page: Access to Safari Books Online. There are so many times I’ve ended up ordering a tech book only to read it once and never look at it again. My office is officially in overflow mode. Now I can read through the whole book and if it’s [...]
When I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Leopard last October, one of the first things I checked was whether the built-in firewall was running or not. To my abject horror, I found out that a) it wasn’t and b) it wasn’t really doing what I expected it to do, namely, keep incoming port-scanners out. Subsequent [...]
Every once in a while, I come across writing so good it makes my teeth itch. This passage from Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown ought to rank up there with the most subversive in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and the most memorable in Orwell’s 1984. It might help to explain that Elasticnagar is the name of [...]