You look through your referers and see an odd search request, but know exactly which post it hit.

To Read: Name Spaces As Tools for Integrating the Operating System Rather Than As Ends in Themselves

Pre-read thought: The Mac OS X file system needs to implement KVC in its APIs. It may already... I don't know.

Hmm. thanks to my referers, I have found that I have the #3 and #4 hits for RSS Sources on Google. Cooool. I need to rewrite my rss feed.

This rssFeedIcon is a test.

I hate surfing around on the zippy internet, then flipping back to the web application I'm writing, and firing up that puppy, and realizing it's slow as dog-crap, and knowing it's my app.

That sucks.

I finally got my Cox.Net connection back up tonight!! I am SOOOOOO happy! Muahahahahaha.... <evil genius hand-wringing/>

This weblog is really cool. Mark is really open about his dealing with addiction, and recently about the grief of losing someone he loved. Hard stuff, but heartening to read.

In the midst of all this, today is my two-year anniversary of sobriety. Two years from today could be yours.

Thanks Mark.

Hmm. thanks to my referers, I have found that I have the #3 and #4 hits for RSS Sources on Google. Cooool. I guess I should update that soon.

Been following Arboretum, a Cocoa-based outliner. Not much to seee right now, but DeusX and I have been trading edits on the idea whiteboard.

From Wired: A high-schooler has created a glove that translates sign-language finger-spelling into text on a digital device via a wireless connection. That is awesome, and a real example of technology bettering the lives of the handicapped.

I finally got the referer thing from here working over here. I love referer logs... ;-)

Whew. Big thread on Hack The Planet - over here, tangentially inspired by my post here about IDL. David McCusker has a great line:

If the interface doesn't support the ability to go on, and encourage you to code for failures, then it's just as fragile as a synchronous interface.

Have to read this thread a few times to get it all.

If you're a Mac user, or curious about the legendary "1984" ad for the introduction of the Macintosh, check out the history here. (That 60 second SuperBowl ad cost Apple $800k, almost as much as the ad itself - $900k.)

The ad almost didn't run, the board of directors hated it and almost fired Chiat/Day (the famous ad agency that was doing Apple marketing then and created the ad), and Steve Wozniak almost put up half the $800k himself just to make sure it ran. Wild.

This is so cool. qu.st LIFTworks has a service for Mac OS X that lets you select text in any native OS X app and hit cmd-shift-g to search Google for the selected text.

Jim and Cheryl (well, mostly Cheryl ;-)) deliver, via "swift and tidy C-Section", and 10 lb, 8 oz baby boy! Congratulations! Dave points out that the infant (name TBA) shares the birthday of the Macintosh. Lucky kid. ;-)

'Hello."

For future reference, I've archived the post about non-typed languages and IDL here.

Check this out. "The iMac's owner managed to access his stolen machine remotely, wrote a script to set the AOL client to dial his home number, which gave him a caller ID trace." [via AccordionGuy]

Dave linked to my comment about IDL in non-typed scripting environments, which is cool. I know I've gotten 50 or so hits from it. The link is appreciated - flow is nice. But I'd also like to know what Dave thinks of my idea, since it's relevant to his work and that of others in the scripting community.

I think sometimes we bloggers get on a roll, linking and blurbing, and it's easy to link to something in a very neutral "here it is, I have no opinion" manner. This is not a knock on Dave at all, it's something I do a good bit, and have seen many others do.

Maybe we need to take stock, and put a little more effort to make sure the "personal" shows up in our "personal web sites".

Jodi talks about the new house we just signed a contract on (woo-hoo!), and laments the lack of information on the site for our previous house. Sorry folks, that's the way it happens sometimes.

Seriously - as Jodi asays, we'll try and get some pics up somewhere of the old place, and of the new place once we're moving in. It's a great place, and we got a good deal on it.

Apple has posted a wrapup of Mac OS X-related announcements from NAMM, a "bi-annual musical markets convention" in LA. Looks like some cool stuff going on.