A couple of years ago, I splurged and purchased the 24-CD Centennial Edition box set that features the complete recordings by Duke Ellington for RCA Records and spans his entire career. I’ve always had a soft spot for the Duke, and this was a way to ensure that I will always have something “new” to […]
Regardé hier ce film d’André Téchiné que j’avais sur cassette depuis longtemps… Je n’ai pas pu m’empêcher de trouver tout cela très lourd, et pas seulement à cause de la longueur. Ressasser sans répit toutes ces grosses questions existentielles, ça donne quelque chose d’assez indigeste. Les questions sous-jacentes sont tellement présentes que le fait qu’elles […]
More discouraging stuff by Paul Krugman in The New York Times about the “banana republic” that the US has become: “Behind Our Backs” by Paul Krugman, The New York Times For the overwhelming political lesson of the last year is that war works — that is, it’s an excellent cover for the Republican Party’s domestic […]
Chessball at Highbury! All kinds of twists and turns, all kinds of action, all kinds of mind play, all kinds of drama. It is, of course, a fair result on the whole — but the red card against Sol Campbell was indeed a bit harsh and probably would only have been a yellow card if […]
In Word X, if you have a Word document open, and you go to the Finder and rename it, when you go back to work and edit the document, the next time you save it, Word automatically detects that you’ve changed the name of the document in the Finder and updates the name in the […]
Further to yesterday’s item about the Quartz font smoothing bug in Word X on my secondary flat-screen monitor, here’s a screen shot of what the problem actually looks like: As you can see in this Word document window that’s split INTO two window panes, the font smoothing of the text in the bottom pane is […]
The kind of stuff that makes you shake your head in disbelief… and we’ve got a full LOAD of this in the past several months, haven’t we? “Free to do bad things” by Brian Whitaker, Guardian Unlimited In a move that further undermines the United Nations’ role in Iraq, the US has secretly and unilaterally […]
Eeek. Had about two dozen web pages open in tabs and windows. Switched one of them to Bookmarks view in ORDER to reorganize my bookmarks bar. Clicked on a bookmark in the list to edit its name. Typed the new name. Pressed enter. Got some kind of alert telling me that I couldn’t edit my […]
The new “Open in tabs…” command at the bottom of each bookmark folder in the bookmarks bar is great — but it severely limits the number of bookmarks that you can put in each folder, unless you don’t mind opening two dozen web sites at the same time. (I do.) Since it’s already possible to […]
All too often, when I SELECT a line of text somewhere, copy it, got to a form field in a web page in Safari, and paste the line of text, I get what seems to be nothing. Safari appears to have pasted a single space character instead of my line of text. In fact, it […]
Now that the new Safari beta effectively makes tabbed browsing a standard feature, another improvement becomes necessary: tab access through the “Window” menu. Right now, no matter how many tabs you have open in a web browser window, this window only appears as a single window in the “Window” menu — and the name of […]
A post to the “Interesting People” mailing list by Tim O’Reilly forwards a rant by musician George Ziemann regarding the fundamental hypocrisy of the recording industry’s claims that file downloads have been the primary cause of the recent decline in music sales. “The Music Piracy Myth” by George Ziemann (as quoted by Tim O’Reilly) My […]
Quartz text smoothing works reasonably well in Word X — but there is a bug that causes Word to “forget” the user’s font smoothing setting and to revert to the default setting (Best for CRT) in document windows located on a secondary flat-panel monitor. (Yes, I have two flat-panel monitors. Lucky me :).) For example, […]
I admire Apple for the way that they have implemented the tabs in the latest Safari beta. One problem I always had with tabs is that switching tabs would cause the window title in the title bar to change — but that title bar was not visually part of the tab, so that was inconsistent […]
Why is it that, when viewing a Word document in split view (two different views of the same document in the same window, using the split bar), using the “Ruler” command in the “View” menu causes the ruler to appear/disappear in both view panes at the same time? This makes no sense. The very purpose […]