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How to photograph smoke
Mike Cohen
Introducing SlimFeeder 0.1
I’ve released SlimFeeder 0.1, a simple open source native Cocoa client for FriendFeed. With SlimFeeder you can view your friends, your own items, and the public timeline.
Native Cocoa app for FriendFeed
Over the weekend I finally got a chance to work on a decent sample program for my Cocoa FriendFeed class, which I hope to release some time this week.
Plurk is not Twitter
Plurk is yet another site attempting to compete with Twitter. Although it has some interesting features, like the timeline view and the ability to share pictures & videos, it still seems lacking. Plurk doesn’t support SMS or IM, and the lack of an API means there’s no desktop client.
Twitter’s main problem is scalability and not being able to handle the user load. There’s no indication that Plurk or other systems can handle that load either. I’m more confident in Twitter’s ability to redesign, re-architect and scale their service, since they have the funding and bandwidth to support their growth.
Theme Change
I got bored with the plain text theme I was using, so I switched to a modified version of Barthelme theme, which maintains the minimalism of my old theme but adds a bit more color. I added a slight gradient to the sidebar to perk it up a little bit while still keeping a clean look.
This cat needs a home
Gunther (also known as Ernie) is a very friendly Hemingway cat that needs a home badly. He’s already been to the vet and is neutered. I’ve been feeding him for a while and a few other people are also feeding him. He’s been trying to get into my apartment, but I can’t take him in because of my other cats. When he sees me, he rubs against my legs and wants to be petted.
links for 2008-05-29
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An alternative to captchas, in which you pick out pictures of cats.
Does this woman look like a terrorist?
Shame on Dunkin’ Donuts for pulling their ad featuring Rachel Ray because right-wing douchebag Michell Malkin says her frilly black & white scarf looks like Yasser Arafat’s kaffiyeh.
Never mind that a kaffiyeh is merely a piece of wardrobe worn by most people in the Arab world, which has nothing to do with political beliefs. It takes a big stretch of imagination to even suggest that Rachel Ray’s frilly scarf vaguely resembles a kaffiyeh.
I plan to join the boycott against Dunkin’ Donuts. No more Sunday morning coffee & bagels from them.
links for 2008-05-28
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The author compares the performance of objC message passing, calling the method directly, and a C function. In this case, 53% of the CPU time is spent in objc_msgSend.
Mac OS X 10.5.3 syncs with Google
I installed the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update a few hours ago, so far with no problems. One feature Apple didn’t mention in the release notes is that Address Book can now sync with Google contacts. The sync happens automatically with a .Mac sync, as well as when syncing with an iPhone. It worked very nicely for me, although I had a few duplicate entries to clean up.
