Nov 29, 2006
Pitchers of Liquors and Milk
I just discovered that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists is a frequent contributor to his band’s Wikipedia page (or perhaps it’s just someone claiming to be Colin…). Very funny.
Aaron Brethorst (Page 110)
Elsewhere on the web
Nov 29, 2006
UI Design
WgeTF: are Windows apps just lame?
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a truly spectacular example of bad UI design up on his website today. It’s so bad, in fact, that it has been dugg 1087 times. Wow. The piece of UI in question is a VB-based wrapper around the fantastically powerful...
Nov 28, 2006
Cocoa
Styling NSWindows in Cocoa
Bithaus has a handy little chunk of Objective C source code up that provides programmatic capabilities to styling NSWindows. It’s modeled on Matt Gemmell’s snazzy TunesWindow class (which I use in iRooster, by the by), but appears to handle all of...
Nov 27, 2006
Innovation
On preventing the collapse of Western civilization
Much has been written about the imminent decline of Western civilization due to the twin threats of text and instant messages. I’ve always prided myself on my ability to write complete sentences, but I occasionally worry about whether today’s adol...
Nov 21, 2006
Accessibility
Accessibility Virtual Brown Bag Talk
Anna Bradley, the CEO of Criterion 508 Solutions, will be giving a talk at the Access Board, a Federal agency for accessibility, on December 13th. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any clear sense of what Anna will actually be talking about....