alien drifter

So this is what it looks like from the outside . . .

Sunday, January 29, 2006

My Inner Car

I'm an Audi TT!



You're not the fastest, nor the most nimble, but you're cute and you have style. You're not intensely competitive, but when you pass by, everyone turns to look.

There may be something to this. Thanks to Void Where Prohibited who is most certainly like his inner car.

Dann's Wisdom

And I agree. Funny, concise and includes a favorite: "You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work." –Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

conversion

There's a really good zine at Match.com. Sure, there's a bunch of dating stuff there, too. Just ignore it and read the articles. This may seem like buying Playboy for the articles and ... well, maybe it is ... not. There's a lot less, uhm, distractions.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

lame avatar

Yet another Yahoo! feature not fully operable on the most advanced personal computer on earth. Well, anyway, here's my avatar. I can only get brown hair because the color button doesn't work. If I'm really bored one day and on a dozey computer I may change it. ... or not.

Yahoo! Avatars

It's also not possible to age the avatar, you're 20 or you're nothing! Hah!

collaborative podcast

I just recorded a podcast for "Another Lousy Day" as part of David Kodeski's project. My day is February 3rd. You can subscribe through iTunes or through RSS. David asked me to read a day after finding my podcast. Sorta neat.

My podcast now sports a customer review. That's another story.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Recover Bookmarks in Safari

Thanks to the crappy install of Verizon Yahoo! I lost all of my bookmarks. After three days of grieving and sending acerbic emails to "Customer Support" and receiving only automated responses, I found my .plists (on a hint from a response in an Apple Discussion). Inside my home folder, in the Library/Safari folder was (and still is and shall be forever) a Bookmarks.copy.plist. Yep. Made about the right time, too. So all is forgiven and lesson learned. Those of you who have not yet made copies of your Bookmarks.plist do so right now. Especially if you use your bookmarks as a private vault of useful pathways to information.

Those of you at Verizon Yahoo! who lied to get that Apple programming job, feel very, very bad! Forgiveness does not mean a pardon. If, on the other had, you had to do it to save your job, ... Know this Yahoo! war mongers, Safari is not the weird stepchild but the yet-to-be-understood genius of browsers.

NOTE: I restored the bookmarks by copying Bookmarks.copy.plist to the desktop, renaming it Bookmarks.plist, dragging it into the Library/Safari folder, thereby replacing the existing file.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Most Useful - 2005

Google: search, discovery, satellite images
Artwells: spirituality
BBC: news
About: good place to start when I know only what
Amazon: shopping, product research
Barnes & Noble: books
Apple: technology
Webmonkey: what really works
Wikipedia: knowledge in a nutshell
Rand McNally: accurate maps and driving directions
The Times Dispatch: local news