The Search feature in Mac OS X’s Mail application, which is supposed to enable you to locate specific archived messages based on keywords, is embarrassingly poor. It is, in fact, pretty much unusable, and I am glad that I am a fairly well-organized person, which makes finding older messages easier for me without HAVING to […]
Mmm. What more needs to be said? Arsenal were stunned by the accuracy of Inter Milan’s finish, and were unable to come up with a decent performance. Too many bad passes and not enough commitment. In such games, players like Pires and Ljundberg are supposed to be all over the place, both in defense and […]
The Kagi web store uses the following type of field for the purpose of entering your country in the “Shipping address” section: Unfortunately, in Safari, if you go to this field and try to SELECT your country by typing its first letter, it won’t work. It won’t do anything. You need to use the Up […]
Voice of America reports that a number of Republicans have defied the veto threat of US President George W. Bush and voted to repeal the new media ownership rules that were predicted to lead to further media consolidation and a decline in the diversity of viewpoints and perspectives. I am sure that this doesn’t mean […]
With the advent of Mac OS X, we were able to say goodbye to a computer environment (the classic Mac OS) whose performance and reliability was systematically deteriorating over time. No matter how careful you were as a classic Mac OS user not to use potentially problem-causing programs such as third-party system utilities and notoriously […]
The Leicester vs. Leeds game last night was fun to watch — although it would have been better with more opposition from the Leeds players. The first couple of goals (in the space of 5 minutes) were outstanding. I have no doubt that Frenchman Nalis was a bit lucky in his half-volley, but it was […]
Here’s the situation: I am in a cell TABLE in which the text is formatted with bullets and a negative indent (but not using Word’s lousy built-in Bullets feature). The last paragraph in the cell obviously is not formatted properly. What I want to do is drag the bottom widget for the left indent to […]
The controversy surrounding Robert Pires’ alleged dive on Saturday in the game against Portsmouth is way overblown. As reader “Alex” notes in the readers mail on the Football365.com web site, It seems that the Arsene Wenger strain of conjuntivitis (AWC) is spreading to journalists across the print media. The “selective viewing” epidemic culminated in the […]
Today, there were a couple of less interesting games on — at least on paper. Both of them turned out to be quite entertaining. The Manchester City game saw a complete reversal of fortune in the second half, with Anelka and Co. thumping the Aston Villa opposition. It’s good to see Anelka score goals, even […]
The BuzzFlash.com web site has an interesting interview with Robert Baer, former CIA case officer, and author of the book Sleeping with Devil: How Washington Sold our Soul for Saudi Crude. It’s pretty scary, when you think about it for a second. Saudi Arabia has 25 percent of the oil supply. At this point in […]
Interesting article in the The New York Times about the recent legal crackdown by the RIAA and the way that musicians find themselves caught in the middle of the controversy. Here’s what Moby had to say: How can a 14-year-old who has an allowance of $5 a week feel bad about downloading music produced by […]
Disappointing day from the perspective of Arsenal, who drew at home 1-1 against Portsmouth, while Manchester United won 2-0 at Charlton and closed the gap in the TABLE to a mere point. It was a day of dubious refereeing decisions again, I’m afraid, with a very harsh penalty call against Portsmouth, and a highly doubtful […]
Intriguing movie by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan about a horrific school bus accident and the aftermath in a small Canadian town. The actors are well directed, and the overall effect is harrowing. The back-and-forth movement (before and after the accident) is well executed. Egoyan builds likeable or intriguing characters with little touches, and it’s hard […]
John Gruber shares his experience with using Google’s AdSense program and more specifically with the HTML code provided by Google. He notes that: It’s rather incongruous to see a company as clever as Google writing such embarrassingly bad markup (although not necessarily surprising, since their markup for Google.com is similarly utterly non-standards-compliant). I couldn’t agree […]
Software makers have come up with all kinds of tools to try and make using web URLs (typing them, copying them, exchanging them, storing them, etc.) easier for the end user. I’ve already described how I use drag-and-drop and a Dock folder menu to manage my bookmarks in the Finder (rather than using a given […]