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January 6, 2005
Just wanted to say happy birthday to Kevin Corcoran today (because his birthday is today–it all syncs together, strangely enough). I was thinking the other day, for no particular reason, that Kevin is the only guy I know who solved the Rubik’s Cube by grabbing a pencil and piece of paper and figuring it out in theory. I always thought it was pretty cool (the figuring, not the Rubik’s Cube).
Also I just want to state for the record, that Kevin Corcoran has nothing to do with this new book I found on the Internet today:
He’d never be caught dead as the US president (or change his name to Tom, for that matter).
January 4, 2005
🙂
January 4, 2005
Peter David writes that Will Eisner has passed away from complications due to his quadruple heart bypass.
Most of you probably won’t know him, but the man was a giant in his field. One of the quotes attributed to him in PAD’s comments:
“Style is the failure to be perfect.”
January 3, 2005
Looks like I may be able to move over to Tangelo today!!!
More later if it works….
January 3, 2005
Yes!
We’ve just moved the entire site, including all archives (but not comments, which I archived separately) over to Tangelo. We’re live now, and I hope to rebuild the templates and add comments soon. BTW, you have no idea how much time I’ve spent in the past year policing my comments on Splitfocus. Comment spammers have flooded me with as many as 600 comments per day at times, and in fact I’ve spent more time cleaning up comments than actually writing for the site.
At any rate, Tangelo is a welcome breath of fresh air. Desktop publishing under my control–gotta love it.
January 1, 2005
Here’s hoping that 2005 brings hope, love, and true joy to you all.
December 31, 2004
I haven’t read his column in a while, but he’s writing about RB here.
He makes an excellent point about DLL versioning too–it makes my Windows boxes eally unstable over time. And then when I have to eventually (and inevitably) reinstall Windows, MS is often nasty about activating it for use. If you’re going to make me jump through hoops to use your software, don’t make it so that I have to rebuild it from scratch so often.
At any rate, tangential mini-rant aside, there’s nothing like REALbasic anywhere, really.
One interesting quote from the article about RB’s steep learning curve:
“Pet peeve: While many people think a steep learning curve means something is difficult to learn, what the term actually means is that the rate of learning is quick, which ought to mean that it is easier, not harder, to learn. Steep is good. Tell a friend.”
Yep, RB rules. It’s one of my top three resolutions to keep using it this year for several projects.
[Update–Corrected the capitalization of REALbasic. I habitually and incorrectly capitalize the name of the language because I’ve seen other versions of BASIC that do that. I’ve apparently yet to break my conditioning. –Dave]
December 28, 2004
“The Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”–The Joe Mancuso Report
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You have no idea how relieved I am to get this email from Joe, my brother. He was vacationing in Burma where the tsunamis hit. From the “JM wire” news service:
“Thank you to those who were asking if I am alive. The last travel plan I sent out had me on a ship headed north up the coast of Myanmar in the Andaman Sea on Christmas day. My alternate plan was to kick back in Phuket. Luckily entropy prevailed and I did neither.
The Sumatran Tsunami that hit Africa, Asia and Indonesia destroyed both and the death count is now up to 42,000. We are scrambling here to account for our friends who are in Thailand. I spent Christmas in Bagan with friends from Sri Lanka who are getting pieces of information on their friends there. Apparently the 500 mph wave hit and took out concrete buildings easily. Wow.
Sorry to not post earlier, The Myanmar goverment does not allow access to email and phones were down in most places. I am back in in Bangkok now waiting to get out to Manila. You can imagine the scene here.
Hope your holidays are going well. No doubt they were better than the coastal people here had. Now there is something to be thankful for in the coming year..
Happy New Year,
Joe”
December 25, 2004
My little shavers below had a great time, I hope you and yours did as well!
