The Kolonel's Journal

Over the years, there have been some pretty funny computer science jokes (at least they’re funny to computer scientists). This one is pretty well known: “There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.” Then there’s the list of ways to shoot yourself in the foot with various programming languages. This one, however, has always been a favourite of mine (because it combines base conversion and 10 holidays): “Why do computer programmers celebrate Christmas on Hallowe’en? Because OCT 31 = DEC 25.”

Anyway, happy whatever–you–celebrate–this–time–of–year. Be excellent to one another.

—Kol. Panic

If you’re a developer or sysadmin, you probably spend a lot of time in Terminal. But getting it launched, then getting to the right place can be a chore. Sure, you can type “cd <space>”, then drag the folder from the Finder, then hit the return key, but that gets old fast.

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I’m a co–founder — with my colleague David — of the Toronto Area Cocoa and WebObjects Developer Group, aka tacow. We’re also the first international chapter of CocoaHeads. Our next quarterly meeting, which we postponed a month so we could legally discuss Leopard (among other things), will be held on November 13. Details are available here.

Tiger’s Address Book is out of date as far as MobileMe functionality is concerned. Sure, you can click on the label next to an email address and get a couple of menu items to visit the person’s HomePage or open their iDisk. But what about iWeb or iPhoto’s new Web Gallery?

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I flew in from C4[1] last night, and boy are my arms tired!

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