It's back! Xjournal has been updated to work with Leopard. Yay! In other news, I've been quite prolific at work during my downtime as I'm sure a few of you may have noticed. I'll keep writing and posting while I am between tasks at work, hopefully I will make significant progress on the book. Any and all comments on those posts are welcome and

I picked up Leopard on Friday, lyticalswan and I were downtown at the Apple store so she could place her order for a Mini (2GHz processor, 2GB of RAM). Caught up in the swell of fan-ism, I purchased OS 10.5 to justify my free t-shirt. It was installed later that night. Overall, I like it. It’s a nice update ( Read more... )

Do me a favor. Think of luck. Everything that embodies it. Who is favored by luck, what it feels like to be lucky at a gambling table or pull that perfect card for the game you are playing, maybe narrowly missing death on the highway or whatever. Remember how it felt the first time you got really lucky. Think about luck for the next few ( Read more... )

My daily browsing of the BBC brought me to an article about a British family that ruled a small chain of islands as kings for 150 years. How many people have dreamt of moving to a tropical paradise and establishing their own tiny society? I think it is part of what compels me to write. I know I cannot do such a thing in the real world so I ( Read more... )

I have not made an academic study of usability but there are a few things I have noticed from personal observation. I like being able to customize computer programs to suit my needs. This is where the open source projects really shine. The Apple widgets, Google gadgets, Firefox extensions and dozens of other open source projects are seeking to ( Read more... )

I was perusing my daily interweb news sites and I came across this video about a new type of computer interface that Microsoft is developing. It takes touch screen to a whole new level. Anyone impressed by the interface for Apple's iPhone will be blown away by this. There are a few things which Microsoft got right here that I would like to ( Read more... )

Much of my time is spent with my head in the clouds. I often wonder "what if" and the most common is "what if magic really existed?" I've come to a great number of conclusions and each of them is contradictory to all the others. That is the allure of magic. It does not exist so it is up to us and our imaginations to create it as we see fit. ( Read more... )

Phil's Goals for the Next Six Months ( Read more... )

I failed to write on either Friday or Sunday and I apologize. This will function as Sunday's post as I have not yet gone to bed ( Read more... )

Roberto Benigni won an Oscar for his performance in, "Life is Beautiful." I counterpoint that life is busy. All through our waking lives we find one distraction or another. I wrote an e-mail to my parents recently describing my recent state of affairs with work and my efforts to be social even though I am working a great deal of hours. My father ( Read more... )