Found this languishing in my drafts folder. Interesting look back, at least for those who lived it. I definitely need to do a drink/gambling Sin Log the next time I’m in Vegas. Here it is, unedited: Day 1: In the morning, we talked to a number of folks from Apple about their new products and …
This is the ringtone for Derek Flint’s direct line to the President in the 1966 movie, Our Man Flint, which was a sort of parody of the James Bond movies of the time. The ringtone would also be later used as the sound of the electronic handcuffs in Hudson Hawk.
I run the @objectivec account on twitter, aggregating many RSS feeds of developers and other Mac/iOS/Cocoa/Objective-C development blogs. That’s it. Just wanted to note that. If you want to be added or removed (or have suggestions for same), get in touch.
I have an old Neat Receipts scanner Scanalizer. I also have a Mac. Unfortunately, it seems that Neat Receipts may abandoning the Mac market with the release of their Neat 5 software, as it still only works on Windows (so far), and the Mac Neat 4 software still doesn’t work correctly on Mountain Lion. (This …
With some of the holiday cards I send out this year, I included a plastic snowflake ornament that I printed on my 3D printer. Granted, a relatively flat ornament is not the best design to show off what a 3D printer can do, but it is one that fits inside a holiday card envelope and …
I’m updating an app to make it easier to subscribe to a podcast in your listener app of choice, and am trying to see which URL schemes work with which apps. So far, I have: podcast:// — opens in Instacast 2.x — podcast://www.aalgar.com/the-sarcastic-voyage-podcast.xml pcast:// — opens in Apple Podcasts, [or Instacast 1.x on iOS 5.x …
To celebrate my friends’ podcast, Post Atomic Horror, hitting 100 episodes, I translated 99 Luftballons into Klingon. Because, SCIENCE! Please note that I am not a native speaker of the Klingon Language, so several evenings with Okrand’s Klingon Dictionary let to this probably-horrible translation. The complete lyrics (with english translation): poHlIj’a’ (do you have time) …
