Have been helping a couple of old 4D colleagues and friends of mine learn REALbasic. 4D being a bog-standard structured programming language in most ways, this amounts to teaching them OOP ( Read more... )

I seem to have found a good client. In Scandinavia somewhere (I should really work out where; what a strange world this is). Wants me to do some REALbasic/database related coding (my two favorite types of regular consulting work I'm doing lately), and then asked me for account details so he could wire my the first week's fees before I've even done ( Read more... )

This is one of the most delightfully funny things I've seen in some time.

One of the things I enjoy about OS X is that it does some basic Emacs text bindings in *all* Cocoa text fields.

Well, here is a piece on MacOSXHints that explains how to make it do many more (or other kinds of keybindings, if you prefer).

Awesome.

I love Penn Jillette. He wrote a piece for NPR's "This I believe" on "There is no God".

This being the Interweb, me being lazy, him putting this at least as well as I could, I link to his screed, rather than writing my own.

Hey, linking to signal is almost as good as generating signal, right?

There Is No God

What the Subject says.

This is not computer animation, and it's not bits of stuff protruding from under a liquid.

This is a Nasa-developed liquid that responds to magnetic fields in interesting ways.

Strangest damn thing I've seen in a while.

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own ( Read more... )

I had an interesting revelation recently. My nine year old niece was visiting for about a week, and at one point in order to keep her entertained, we broke out my old Nintendo 64 so she could play Mario 64 ( Read more... )