Je reçois depuis un certain temps déjà par courrier électronique les messages d’actualité littéraire du site Remue.net. Je me suis déjà plaint à plusieurs reprises auprès des responsables du site des mauvais choix concernant le format de ces messages électroniques. J’ai réussi, à un moment, à les convaincre de faire un effort pour éviter autant […]
Pete Gill at Football365.com has a decent column on Sol Campbell’s forthcoming hearing with the Football Association regarding the Community Shield incident: The context is important because it is unlikely, based on his previous decisions, that referee Steve Bennett would have done anything more than pass on a few words of warning if he had […]
I wanted to visit the Macromedia site today… I hadn’t done so in a while. This is what I get when trying to use the site in Safari: Not very pretty! I suppose it might be a bug in Safari… except that the only site that gives me these strange artifacts is the Macromedia site. […]
Aladdin is being roundly chastised for using a kernel extension (and thereby risking the stability of the entire Mac OS X system) to implement a “new” feature where simply renaming a file with a “.sit”, “.zip”, etc. extension causes StuffIt Deluxe to compress the file. What few people mention, however, is that the whole controversy […]
After the big shock of Chelsea’s Russian makeover, now there is news that BSkyB, the pay-TV giant, has sold its 9.9% stake in Manchester United, and there are fresh rumours of a possible takeover bid for the club. We are talking about very big money here. While it is good news that BSkyB has sold […]
For about 10 minutes after opening the score in the second half, the Canadians must have thought that the ultimate dream of reaching the final was theirs. In truth, they were rather fortunate to be ahead, HAVING been dominated by Sweden for the most part. The Kara Lang free kick was a powerful shot, but […]
I still use Camino for a number of web-related tasks, including posting new blog entries. (Safari has a tendency to crash after a while when I use it to access the pMachine control panel. Apple say that they are aware of the issue…) But I really don’t like the fact that text input in web […]
The recent O’Reilly article on Mac OS X’s Dock by Giles Turnbull is an interesting read. It is based on interviews with a number of high-profile Mac OS X users, including Brent Simmons, John Gruber, Adam Engst, and others. Matt Jones at Frownland.com has more on the topic. I tend to agree with his view […]
As most of you probably already know, Apple has re-released Mac OS X 10.2.8, and the major issues introduced by the first release of the system update appear to have been fixed. As a precautionary measure, in addition to backing up all the important stuff and repairing disk permissions before installing the update, I downloaded […]
Mission accomplished for Arsenal at Anfield, where they beat Liverpool 2-1. In truth, they had a very poor first half, and were rather fortunate to be level 1-1 at half-time — although, in all fairness, the Liverpool goal was the result of a lucky bounce as well. Liverpool still had many more chances during the […]
Especially now that (very) long file names are allowed in Mac OS X’s Finder, it goes without saying that normal text editing tools should be available when editing a file name as well. Yet, for some reason, the ability to drag-and-drop a text selection from one location to another within a given file name while […]
It’s already a week old, but… New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman writes: “The terrorists won at Cancún” — and connects the dots for the Bush administration, since they seem to be unable to do so themselves.
Whatever type-rendering engine Adobe’s Reader 6 for Mac OS X is using, it is obviously not doing a very good job. Look at the following portion of a PDF document displayed in Adobe Reader 6: and then the exact same portion of the same PDF file in Mac OS X’s Preview: The font used here […]
Just got the latest David Bowie album Reality in its limited edition digipak packaging (with bonus CD). I must admit I have no idea how one is supposed to get the CDs out of the case. Instead of being hollow and flexible, the plastic part in the center of the case that you’re supposed to […]
It wasn’t a very interesting game to watch (and leave it to Canadian TV network Sportsnet to actually screw up their time schedule, which meant that I missed the first 20 minutes of the game, during which the only goal was scored), but there is no denying that this Canadian team has grown tremendously in […]