Author Archives: Martin

31 Dec 2009

Another day, another decade

Throughout the year I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about some of the personal stuff that has been going on lately. There’s been a lot of it. Every time I wrote a post however I decided it was too revelatory, too emo, too whiny or too something else. This is a personal post, [...]

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30 Dec 2009

NSFW Rating System

BW6JK44BUVQH It seems like people have a hair trigger when it comes to labeling their links “NSFW“. I’ve even seen warnings about NSFW language which seems like overdoing it a bit to me. Anyway, since using the label “NSFW” to refer to anything from cuss words in plain text to “Harry Potter / Tentacle Rape [...]

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30 Dec 2009

Diplomacy

.chatlist{ padding:5px; margin:5px 0 5px -5px; list-style:none; font-size:1em; } .chatlist li { padding:5px; margin:5px 0 5px -5px; list-style:none; background-color:#eee; border:1px solid #ccc; font-size:1em; } Actual conversation between me and Malin about the Norwegian movie “Pathfinder”. Note: Lapps are the indegenous tribal folk of Scandinavia Me: I saw it ages ago when I was just a [...]

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20 Dec 2009

Crudmuffins

Update: Bug squashed. So buried deep in the archives there was a comment in which the author had innocently copy/pasted the characters “⌃ ⌥ ⌘” from my post. This was for some reason not sanitized in the SQL, which somehow borked the XMLRPC endpoint to the blog. This in turn meant that tools such as [...]

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14 Dec 2009

Things Migrator 2

I noticed that my little app for migrating your data from Things to The Hit List still gets some hits. I haven’t really looked at it for ages, but I wasn’t terribly surprised to see that it’s broken under Snow Leopard. I decided to fix it, expecting AppleScript projects in Xcode to work pretty much [...]

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13 Dec 2009

Ada II: Lovely comic rediscovered

Just a quick one to say that although I still think it makes more sense, I retract my original proposal of making the 10th of December “Ada Lovelace day” out of respect for the efforts over at Finding Ada. We had a short exchange on Twitter and I was assured that something was being planned [...]

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12 Dec 2009

Open letter to O’Reilly : Your iPhone apps suck

Update 2: New versions of several of these apps have been released. Things are a lot better. Update:I’ve had feedback on this post from O’Reilly both by email and in the comments. Both Andrew and the other O’Reilly representative I’ve been in contact with seem sincere when they say that these apps will be updated [...]

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10 Dec 2009

Ada: We salute you – The worlds First Programmer

This article was cross-posted on ria.creuna.com. Hear ye; Codesmiths and Script Artisans. Nay; Hear ye all who labour with keyboard and mouse, for you owe a debt to the singular person we commemorate today. Ahem. On this day, the 10th of december, a shockingly large number of years ago the First Programmer was born. If [...]

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3 Dec 2009

New blog!

No no. I’m not about to start a kerfuffle about changing the location and / or name of my blog again. I just wanted to make sure you’ve heard about the new ria.creuna.com site. Basically me and the other RIA-developers broke out and started our own blog. If you like the code, geek and tech [...]

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24 Aug 2009

Medication

Copyright be damned1! As a bipolar on lithium I’ve experienced having my creativity, eagerness and mind numbed and agonized over it in no small measure. Accordingly this strip really struck a chord with me: Footnotes: At least until I get a C&D. ↩

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