Why on earth doesn’t Apple dedicate a person for a month to documenting the facilities built into XCode for creating new editor types? Jeez, this really irritates me to no end. There is tons of documentation surrounding this for Visual Studio. Ad...
MT 2.6 blew up on me after I did something kind of dumb. Basically, it’s not that graceful at recovering from errors. This seemed like as good a time as any to upgrade to MT3, though, so here we are. Let’s hope we can avoid comment spam this time ...
I don’t really have insomnia, but I feel that way on nights like this. We hit Beta 1 ZBB on Friday, and I had the most amazing night of sleep last night: slept like a brick for 8 hours and woke up feeling refreshed and alive. I feel like sleep is ...
My friend Jen, executive administrator extraordinaire, goes by the name LP Trixie on MSN Messenger. I asked her about this a week or so ago, only to discover Chicago’s most elite social organization: the Lincoln Park Trixies. What is an LP Trixie...
Mickey Kaus writes: “If I were a Democrat–oh wait, I am a Democrat–if I could keep Kerry in a sealed steel shipping container until November 1, I would.” Kaus definitely has a point. Bush is doing a bang-up job tearing himself apart. Strangely en...
Instapundit just bashed Bush and praised Kerry. Holy cow! Seriously, though. The Bush Administration’s “War on Porn” is the most ill-conceived plan I’ve heard about since just before Sept 11 2001. This feels like more of the really weird, hare-bra...
Rory, in a fit of East Coast U2-induced despondency, decided to dissect his childhood heroes. My personal favorites: George Lucas, he man responsible for creating my childhood, also destroyed it That’s definitely true. I hate you George L...
I remember why I hate winter in the rest of the country. Wow. Talk about a blizzard…
Ah, another successful day in terms of the growing popular appeal of iRooster. More and more people are hitting my blog looking for serial numbers for iRooster. For anyone who runs into this entry trying to find a way around paying $10 for the app...
I’m working on a project right now that requires me to parse a humongous tree of data (folders and html files), and then build all sorts of interesting visual structures out of this information. It’s being done in C#, since it’s an ASP.Net web app...