I’m now running Proteus instead of separate ICQ, AIM, and MSN clients. It works really nicely, and unlike Fire, it shows ICQ users’ names instead of just numbers. It also automatically imported my buddy lists from all 3 services.

CPDFView: a PowerPlant class for displaying PDF in a vertically scrollable view. Mac OS X only.

I’ve converted my application from CodeWarrior to ProjectBuilder. It wasn’t too painful and only took a few hours to get everything fully working.’

Seen in alt.music.peter-gabriel:

“In an interview Peter reveals that he now has 130 ‘Up’ songs in

various stages of completion and that after releasing 1 (or 2) albums

he would quite like to make any leftover songs available for download

on the internet. ‘Up’ will be an “internal record, edgier than the

Dome stuff, more song-based” and could possibly include the track

‘Father, Son’ from the ‘OVO’ album.”

130 new PG songs!!!!!

I spent the day at my new place, buying lamps & a dining table (which I discovered didn’t include chairs after I got it home), assembling stuff, installing various fixtures, cleaning up, etc. I’m pretty exhasted now.

As I drove home I listened to “Mustt Mustt” by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and I thought about what a great singer he was and wished I had the opportunity to see him perform live before his untimely death a few years ago.

I probably won’t be posting much for the next week or so. I’m getting ready to move a few days, and I’m now frantically packing, cleaning, and doing last minute stuff.

David Brown: “It’s not as important to actually BE fast as it is to SEEM fast.” So true.  [Scripting News]

A good rule for application design.

Morons in the News: Museum Visit Leads to Satan. The Salem Witch Museum educates the public about witchhunts around the world. Cromwell Middle School’s field trip is suddenly cancelled because apparently even seeing the word “witch” sends fundie parents into convulsions. [Morons Dot Org]

Dave Winer of Userland Software: Ominous words from Steve Zellers for all developers who use AppleEvents (like us). “A future release of the AppleEvent Manager in OS X may break some applications.” Oy.  [Scripting News] [Mac Net Journal]

You must not use AEGetDescData or AEGetDescDataSize to extract data from an AERecord or AEList. Trying to do anything with the dataHandle of a desc that contains a list or a record will result in Very Bad Things. Use the AEGet* APIs to get the data from a record or list.

Guilty! I’ve done that in System 7 Pack. oy! is right.

Intel’s Concept PC gallery. This is not a joke.

Some of these machines look absolutely ridiculous. They miss the whole point of the iMac – it isn’t just about looking “weird” or “cool”. Form follows function. The iMac doesn’t have any extraneous gadgets or decorations. It’s an efficient, tasteful design.

These machines are designed to look weird just for the sake of being weird. Under the surface, you’ll find the same clunkiness & cost-cutting design you’ll find in any PC.