Just my day to day ramblings!
Mac OS X 10.5.8 available through Software Update
The latest update to Mac OS X (which is sent to every Mac owner) automatically upgrades your Safari 3 install to Safari 4.
This is excellent and exactly what should happen on all operating systems. There is no reason not to upgrade your browser, but every reason that you should. Some people cannot be bothered to go find the download though, so bringing it automatically to people like this is perfect. Well done Apple!
I find myself skipping a lot of songs on my iPod. Maybe my taste has changed. What should I listen to?
Our holiday pack came in the post today – officially excited about holiday!
Scanning a print-out of a line drawing and then tracing over it again because client hasn’t brought original file. The stupid – it burns!
A beautiful story, pulls all your heartstrings and is both happy and sad. Very Memorable.
4.5 stars
I just joined the NHS Organ Donation Register. Don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner, it is so easy and will save lives.
Beowulf is stunning in HD. Grendel is disgusting.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Just thought of a great idea for a domain name, would get it in an instant if I thought I would use it…
Examine the notion of a “loving god.” This god only loves you if you follow the rules. No questions, no doubts, no objections, are allowed. “Because I said so, that’s why.” He/she/it loves you as a farmer loves a draft-animal; you’re useful, you obey, and you’re docile. If you stray, your firstborn will be murdered, if you don’t follow a capricious order, you’re a pillar of salt. This is “love”? If so, I’ll take indifference.
Wikipedia: List of common misconceptions
This is an absolute goldmine of common misconceptions — many of which I already knew but some I had taken for granted. Fantastic!
Once again, Internet Explorer causes problems. This time with the adoption of HTML5.
HTML5 is ready to use today. There is very little stopping you from using HTML5 for all new websites you code. All except for one small problem: Internet Explorer needs a kick up the butt to render your code properly. It needs something called the HTML5 javascript shiv.
Internet Explorer, in its infinite wisdom, does not allow you to style an element that it does not recognise. This is not very future-proof, and causes problems as HTML5 adds a lot of new elements. The only way to get around this is to use javascript to force Internet Explorer to recognise the new elements. Basically, the code looks like this:
document.createElement("section")This is repeated for all the new elements, inserted into a browser-sniffing conditional and minified for your downloading convenience. Fixed!
Of course, there will be those without javascript enabled, and the best we can do for them is this:
<!--[if IE]>
<noscript>
<p>You need to enable javascript
in your browser to view this website.</p>
</noscript>
<![endif]-->Is this useful for the viewer? No, they probably do not know what javascript is, or whether this message can be trusted—and they should not be expected to. But it is necessary. Will this be fixed in future versions of Internet Explorer? I certainly hope so, but then it will be decades before everybody has switched to that new version – just take a look at how many people are still using Internet Explorer 6.
There has never been more reason to dump Internet Explorer and get one of the better, free alternatives:
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man — living in the sky — who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time … But He loves you!
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
— Think Different. (Apple Computer Ad Campaign)
Wish I had a better way of remembering things I need to do. Alarms go off when I’m busy, lists are too easy to ignore. Hmmm ?
The bread I made last night came out really well! Smells lovely.
The argument “Jesus must have existed because so many things were written about him” makes me want to go to New York to meet Spider-Man.
Atheists do look for answers to existence itself. They just don’t make them up.
Yay bought & been playing Pikmin 2 on the Wii. Love it, brings back memories of Pikmin battles at uni!
Harry Potter = awesome. The best movie by far. Building up to an amazing ending. The book was better though… 😉
