I cannot possibly convey my excitement over the announcement of Diablo 3. Blizzard has also confirmed this will be released simultaneously for the Mac. If you haven’t already, please do yourself a favor and watch the gameplay video.
I had an epiphany today while using my Mac. I have a 13″ Macbook which gives me a widescreen aspect ratio with 1280×800 resolution. I have always had my dock in the default position until I realized something. Between the OSX menu bar, my Firefox titlebar, toolbar, and bookmark toolbar, I have virtually no vertical space to work with. It suddenly occured to me that I should move my dock to the side! I started on the left, but that was too visually distracting. I now have my dock on the right. I have gained about 20% of my vertical space. Who needs 1280 horizontal pixels for browsing? Not me.
Think of what you want… then ask for about 100% more than that. When you go into mandatory mediation, they will try to meet in the middle and hit something you will both agree upon. If you did it right, the middle will be just where you wanted to be. It’s sad but true. You may have to fight for something you don’t think is fair (more than you want) to get what you deserve.
I stumbled across this site in my del.icio.us feed this morning and had to share it. First of all, if you haven’t checked out Woot, go right now and take a look. Woot offers a single (usually tech-related) item each day at a ridiculous price. Now we have Chainlove.com which does the same thing but for cycling gear! Awesome!
I have continued to monitor my gas mileage and have been consistently seeing around 30mpg without using some of the more extreme hypermiling measures. This has still left me a bit puzzled. I have two possible conclusions—one or both of which must be correct based on my results:
This is not a popular opinion, but I hope this leads to a fundamental change in our collective lifestyle here in the United States. This pipe dream we’ve been living subsidized by the future had to end sometime.
One of my Twitter friends has made me curious about the Django web application framework. This basically sits on top of Python to make it easier to develop applications for the web. I decided to check into it myself. The first thing I have learned is that the documentation available for free is really amazing. I’m going through the free book right now, and learning tons along the way. I actually have an Associate’s Degree in programming, but, honestly, I don’t know any language well. I do have the basic concepts of programming down for the most part. I have been able to follow along with very little trouble. The comment system that is built into the book in which there is comment space for each paragraph is elegant and functional. It’s a major asset in a tight spot.
I have only recently noticed this although my experience with Twitter has been fairly limited until the last couple of weeks. It appears some devious spammers have learned of sites that track the number of times a given link is posted on Twitter (see Twitturly among others) and are taking full advantage of this by spamming their own links on the service. The Twitturly feed, which has mostly served as a fast-track for links that will soon appear on Digg and Reddit, has recently been hit with a number of links to a site that asks for your e-mail address in exchange for secret hints on how to last longer in sex. Personally, I find the Konami code has been the only secret I have ever needed in any walk of life (up, up, down down, left, right, left, right…).
I just found this comment posted about Pop Rocks
Pop rocks are awesome for a number of reasons. These reasons are as follows:
1: When you build up a lot of saliva behind your bottom teeth and dump a pack of pop rocks in there, the occasional pop rock pops so hard that it knocks another pop rock out. like your mouth was some kinda volcano
I had a lengthy political discussion with a hardline right-wing co-worker. I would never willingly enter into this kind of thing, but it just happened. So, we are talking, and, at some point, I realized he was not attacking my ideas but the facts upon which they are based. Every fact I sited had been manipulated to make my side come out smelling like a rose. Fortunately for him, the facts he sited were beyond reproach.