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Continue reading →: Reading Between the Lines
If you’ve been following the Ted Haggard scandal, you’ve got to read this article, published in May, 2005, in Harper’s Magazine. Soldiers of Christ has some of the most delicious and prescient ironies on Haggard that I’ve encountered while following this story. His true beliefs and desires were sitting right…
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Continue reading →: November 8 COBA Meeting
The November 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held this Wednesday, November 8, 2006 in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. Around the World in 60 Minutes COBA members have been traveling around the world and have the…
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Continue reading →: Low-Key Hillclimbs #4: Highway 9
Learning from my previous meltdown on the slopes of Mt. Diablo, I decided to have a great warm up before the ride, have a water bottle filled with sugared water (Trader Joe’s Dixie Peach), and pace myself better in the beginning of the ride. The lack of a bike computer…
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Continue reading →: Low-Key Hillclimbs #3: Mt. Diablo
Last week’s Low-Key Hillclimb up Walnut Creek’s Mt. Diablo was not a good day in the saddle for me. I suffered greatly as a result of four critical errors in my (lack of) preparation: No warmup Went too hard in the beginning Lemon water No computer Read more below the…
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Continue reading →: Halloween
Another year, another Halloween! Having moved to Santa Clara, we got to see a new batch of kids. We checked out our new neighborhood dressed up in our Halloween costumes. Rae donned a mask to conceal her face, which means, yes, Rae and I went trick or treating for the…
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Continue reading →: Rotten Tomatoes Halloween Party
Update: Now with photos from the party! Cobra La La La La La La! I’m off to ride in the Low-Key Hillclimb Series ride #3 up Mt. Diablo, so I don’t have the time to post some more photos. Here’s one of me with members of the Cobra Terrorist Organization…
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Continue reading →: AppleScript System Events Slowness
In Timeature, I have the app tell Aperture to switch to the Library via AppleScript. What should be a very fast operation turns out to be glacially slow. Any AppleScript wizards care to explain why this is the case? Here’s offending code that you can run in Script Editor: tell…
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Continue reading →: Low-Key Hillclimbs #2: Old La Honda
With the slew of work this week, I haven’t had time to put down my thoughts on the second Low-Key Hillclimb ride up Old La Honda until now. I’ve been riding up this benchmark climb to Skyline Road off and on ever since I got my road bike in 1997.…
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Continue reading →: Localization Help Needed
In the course of the next week, I expect to have three software applications for Mac OS X available: Annoture, Timeature, and a yet-to-be released enhancement for Apple Mail. I’ve gotten help localizing my apps into French and German. What other languages are in typical OS X apps? Japanese is…
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Continue reading →: Annoture 1.0.1 and Timeature 1.0.2
I need to fire myself and hire a real QA team. A couple of international users discovered a problem related to number formats and localization in Timeature and Annoture. Since both apps share some of the same codebase, I had to release a point update — 1.0.2 and 1.0.1 respectively…
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Welcome to tow.com, my home on the internet since 1995. I’m an indie software artist and creator of apps such as Action Phrase, MixEffect, MsgFiler, RouteEffect, Wipe My Screen, and more. I’m also the producer and co-director of Autumn Gem. Enjoy your visit here!
