Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

I’m still busy geeking. I’ve moved on from updating the Konfabulator kitchenTimer widget for the latest Konfabulator edition to editing the game ChainShot (by MscapeSoftware) so that the scoring is more like that of the Yahoo!Game JT’s Blocks - or as Veronica calls it, PantyCat. (Don’t ask.)

Another important piece of housekeeping was retrieving my .emacs file from the old mac and getting fresh copies of my favorite Emacs modes, folding mode and html helper mode. The latter is what produces the timestamp at the bottom of the Repository page.

The new mac is still adorably cute. Though the screen is smaller than my previous 15″ PowerBook, the resolution is the same, so it feels sharper rather than more cramped. The fan has been on longer in the past few days than my old fan ran in the entirety of its four years of active duty. Maybe it needs some stylish radiator fins like a spaceship’s. (In the vacuum of space, the problem is getting rid of excess heat, not keeping it in.)

The WotF people were kind enough to email me upon my manuscript’s arrival:

This is to inform you that your manuscript has been received and entered in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of The Future Contest, quarter-ending September 30th. Please allow up to 8-10 weeks after the quarter deadline for judging to finalize.  Best wishes, Contest Administrator

Pardon the lack of content - I’ve been busy learning to script Konfabulator. I also downloaded the Apple developers tools, installed the PHP Apache module, and built Emacs for MacOS X.

Mac rumor of the day: Panther goes gold master

I’m sure you’re dying to know what on my new dock. At the moment, the collection is: the Finder, Mail, iTerm, iChat, Safari, NetNewsWire (no longer lite), Address Book, iCal, and iTunes. I also have System Preferences and Preview open at the moment, (Programs without links were included with the OS.)

I just downloaded Konfabulator. Stuffit Expander 8 is supposed to have some problems, but I upgraded yesterday and haven’t encountered them yet.

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Source: Endymion, Keats

In a surprise move, the Mac (a new 12″ Powerbook) appeared on my doorstep this morning at 9:30 a.m. I’ve been playing with it ever since. So far I’ve changed my desktop, set up iChat with some icons (it uses the Address book icons instead of AIM ones) and gotten Safari tabbing. I’m also calibrating my battery. Next, I plan to play with the DVD drive.

Late-breaking mac sighting: Anchorage, Alaska!

I’m still amazed by the idea of MailBucket. I was looking up RSS readers for Jerie and found that some Windows readers (eg., NewzCrawler) which can’t hold a candle to NetNewsWire, nevertheless do interesting non-RSS things like reading newsgroups or regular web pages. Add the MailBucket email-to-RSS gateway and you can do virtually everything with an RSS reader.

But if you really wanted to do everything, you’d use emacs, wouldn’t you?