Apparently this storm wasn’t all hype. I shoveled the driveway twice. Once with ~4 inches of snow and then again with ~8 inches. My back hurts, but I’m thankful I took two rounds of shoveling. It’s tempting to just wait for it to end, but I’d rather not wrestle with 12 inches if I didn’t [...]

Here in New England, we’ve already had snow this season (four inches on Thanksgiving Day). That was somewhat unexpected and not really a huge deal. Tomorrow a.m. is supposed to bring in our first real storm. It’s already been decently hyped by local news stations and many school’s have already been cancelled. In a nice [...]

Reminder: A QTAtomContainer is a Handle, a Handle is a Ptr *, a Ptr is a char *, so a Ptr * is a char **. If you want the data that a Handle points to you get it via *yourHandle. Yowza. Yes, I’m new here. So, remember: typedef Handle QTAtomContainer; typedef Ptr * Handle; [...]

Likes: Backlit keyboard: It’s useful, but really it’s just fun to show off. Performance: Feels much snappier than my iBook. A lot of that feeling probably comes from the beefier graphics card as well as the faster G4. Display: the 1440×960 display is excellent. Some complain of visual lines. If these lines exist, I don’t [...]

I’m fortunate enough to own a new 15″ PowerBook. I’ve been working on a mini-review pointing out some likes and dislikes of the PowerBook, but I thought it might be fitting to first explain how I got here. I’ve owned a total of five different Apple computers (not including the mini @ work) but have [...]

The few snippets of code that I’ve put up here have looked ugly. I first tried using the <pre> tag and with the last post, tried <code>. I think the pre was better, but neither were very satisfactory. Declaring this a problem that needed solving I went to the blogs, what are others doing? There [...]

When I’m trying to get help with something Cocoa I first ask xcode, then developer.apple.com, then google. The Apple docs are great, but often times I just want a small little example snippet. Google can help here, but ninety percent of the time the results are overwhelming. Where does one go? I’ve been hitting my [...]

During the days, I work in a single story office building. I’m fortunate enough to sit in a window cube. The window has many uses: watch people come and go, know when the mail person is here, know when thunderstorms are coming and gives a nice place to stare out when I’m compiling or just [...]