The user interface of the iPhone is based on a series of nested UIView objects, arranged in a view-subview/parent-child relationship. When building a complex application with a lot of views, sometimes it’s handy to be able to see exactly what that relationship is. But if you try to print out the value of a UIView [...]
Time Machine is great, especially if hooked up to a network storage device like Drobo so you can just have it run in the background. In my case the Drobo is connected to a Mac Mini acting as a network file server (yes, I know it’s not officially supported, but it works fine under Leopard). [...]
Sorry if the blog’s style keeps switching around. Problem seems to be with the DB and hosting site. It keeps resetting back to the default WordPress style even if I haven’t posted for a while. Might just have to give up and leave it there. *sigh*
Ad for an institution of higher learning, currently circulating on national news outlet sites.
This message popped into my email inbox today: A few points worth mentioning: The [SPAM] tag was not added to the subject header by any software on my end. As near as I can tell, it was either put there by the spammer’s own email server, or added manually. The particular inbox to which the [...]
A fascinating chart showing the origin of most Spam on the Internet.
Holy crap! French author Michel Houellebeck gets slammed hard by, of all people, his own Mother (more here). Wouldn’t it be funny if she ended up with the Prix Goncourt instead of the acolyte of modern nihilistic French literature? The lesson: don’t put thinly veiled insulting caricatures of your Mom in your writings. She probably [...]
Jeff Jarvis ponders whether Insurance is impervious to social reinvention. I don’t agree, but I think it’s going to take some pretty big thinking, a major set of cojones, and a fair bit of social engineering. A few years ago, I spent a fair amount of time working on a desktop healthcare application, with the [...]
Image via Wikipedia: There’s a lot of symbolic significance (in many different walks of life) that you can read into this one picture. In your own field of work, are there situations that can be described in this way?