Lord help me, I’ve created a Facebook account.
The fact that I did that surprised me. But you know what surprised me even more? Facebook is kind of cool. I feel dirty even thinking it, but I’ve hooked up with a couple friends from high school and learned some new things about some current friends.
Who’da thunk?
New York Times: Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.
May she rest in peace. Oh, how I loved A Wrinkle In Time, A Wind In The Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet when I was child. Those were some of my favorite books, and my sister’s, too, I believe.
The book used concepts that Ms. L’Engle said she had plucked from Einstein’s theory of relativity and Planck’s quantum theory, almost flaunting her frequent assertion that children’s literature is literature too difficult for adults to understand. She also characterized the book as her refutation of ideas of German theologians.
I love it. Children’s literature is too difficult for adults to understand. Brilliant.
Slashdot asks: Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: no, you idiot. Don’t be such an idiot.
A Brief History of Ugly: Apple in the last 10 years
I must take exception with his assertions that the iMac G5, the original iBook, and the eMate 300 were ugly. The iMac G5 is striking, the original iBook was breathtaking, and the eMate 300 was astonishingly unique.
Service Scrubber:
This could come in handy.
Also potentially useful: ThisService.
Insomnia:
Despite the occasional foul language, I love xkcd. I don’t know why, but every comic makes me laugh (especially the recent “River Tam Beats Up Everyone”).
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| ‘What will your obituary say?’ at QuizGalaxy.com |
Doesn’t seem accurate somehow. Especially the Paris Hilton thing. She won’t actually miss me that much. Although the hysterical laughter thing? That might be right.
In reality, I want my tombstone to say, “I told you I was sick.”
It’s moments like these when I’m proud to be an American.
Amen.
Great hint here on how to customize the date and time formats allowed in Numbers ’08. I added YYYY-MM-DD for my SQL work. Beautiful.
I have to say that Numbers is a fantastic spreadsheet. The only major flaw I’ve found so far is the lack of a TEXT function, which I often use in Excel to pad data with leading zeroes.
Dan writes: Honestly, I don’t know if this can be stopped. It sure as
That’s fine and all, but there’s a far greater threat looming that Dan seems to be ignoring (related Slashdot discussion here).
Todd Ogasawara writes: Apple iWork ‘08 is available now and can read/write Office 2007 files. It has a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation app. It costs $79. I don’t think Office for Mac 2008 for Mac will be $79 (will it come in a bazillion versions like Office for Windows?). I’ve never used iWork but will guess it doesn’t support macros (big deal since Office won’t either).
Right on, Todd. Right on. I’ve been playing with the Numbers ’08 trial and it’s a lot of fun.
John Gruber is spot on, once again:
Writing an email is like writing an article. Only quote the relevant parts, interspersing your new remarks between the quoted passages. Don’t quote anything at all from the original message if you don’t have to.
Top posting drives me crazy.
No, I haven’t. This greeting card spam is really getting annoying. I’m getting bombarded with this stuff.
That is all.
