Shaq apparently discovered that he had been traded by reading a “tweet” by a fan of his on Twitter. Crazy, if true.
June 25, 2009
June 23, 2009
If you haven’t already read Joey deVilla’s phenomenal Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck, do it now. And if you have, re-read it. Joey has a followup, Like I Said, Netbooks Suck, with some statistics to back up his position on “the zone of suck.”
June 16, 2009
A man has sued the Oakland A’s for gender discrimination in handing out promotional hats only to women on Mother’s Day. Yeah, he’s probably a tool, but he’s absolutely showing how ridiculous it is to ban private discrimination.
June 11, 2009
WordPress 2.8 is now available for download! Read up on what has changed and enjoy the many improvements and bug fixes.
Custom Drive Icons in OS X
I love me some custom drive icons in OS X. The only ones I haven’t customized are JungleDisk (which is a “cloud” drive, so no physical representation) and the drive that came with my Mac Pro (”Backup”) because I’ve never seen what it looks like. The rest were custom icons that I made myself, from images of the drives I found on the web.
My tools for creating these images are Photoshop and Pic2Icon. In Photoshop, I use the magic select want to select the background (it helps to start with an image of the drive on a clean white background). Using that plus some manual selections, I delete the image background, leaving the drive against the checkered transparent Photoshop backdrop. Then I do Image → Trim to crop it to the minimum dimensions. Then, I resize the image to 256 pixels on the longest size. Export to PNG, maintaining transparency, and our image is ready to be converted into an icon. I simply drag the PNG onto Pic2Icon which extracts the image and adds it as an icon, to the PNG file. Last step: View Info on the PNG, click the icon, Cmd-C. View info on the drive, click the icon, Cmd-V. Done!
The “SSD” drive got a special text overlay, to convey that the two drives are striped into one, but otherwise, they’re really accurate physical representations. And yes, I’ve done the same with all of my Compact Flash and SD cards, as well as my USB thumb drives.
It’s the little things that make me happy.
May 7, 2009
Wouldn’t it be nice if your OS X bootable SuperDuper-created backup disk could be mounted right before the nightly backup and unmounted right after to reduce wear and tear?
May 5, 2009
Duncan Black: “The idea that for any job, especially something like Supreme Court judge, there’s one ‘most qualified’ person who can be determined is just idiotic.”
Then you’re not looking hard enough. A critical reviewer should be able to determine qualification differences between any two individuals. Giving up and picking between them based on race or gender is lazy.
May 4, 2009
This is a silly basis for a revolution: “If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.”
Saying that the point of life is reproduction is admitting that you think life is a meaningless slog.
Automattic growth
Matt Mullwenweg in 2006, when Automattic, the company he founded, took its first round of funding:
Automattic isn’t going to get fancy SoMA offices, throw huge parties at SxSW, or “get big fast.”
I attended a kick-ass party partially sponsored by Automattic this year at SXSW, and I dropped by their new SoMA office space a few months ago. Doh! But to be fair, their growth wasn’t fast—it seemed natural. It’s just amazing how much three years of natural growth can change things!